Passion: A sort of emotion or motivation I suppose would be the best way to term the word "passion." It is also a movement started by Louie Giglio and Chris Tomlin for college and young adult men and women to come together and worship God. This year I got a chance to be a part of this movement and I will never be the same.
I am really excited to tell you that these few days led to several topics of conversation that you will be introduced to soon! But this is all about God. Our glorious, mighty, everlasting Prince of Peace and Lord of Lords. To try and keep this as short as possible I will just tell you that being in the middle of the Georgia Dome, filled with 45000 college and young adults praising and worshiping and learning in community about my dear Savior has been one of the highlights possibly of my life.
It is amazing how much LESS reserved you are when it is firstly, so evident that the Holy Spirit is present and secondly when you suddenly realize what it means to have 45000 people worshiping with you. Did you hear me? 45000 people. In one place. For one purpose.
And it was such a blessing to watch the Spirit move throughout the week not only in corporate worship and teaching but in smaller groups where we had the opportunity to invest in people and see what God was doing in their lives and investigate more deeply what God was doing in our lives.
Every year Passion "adopts" a cause to increase awareness and give people an opportunity to give their money and resources to those who are far less fortunate. This year, our focus was on slavery. Trust me when I say there is more to come on this topic, however the point of saying this is to make you aware. Did you know there are currently around 27 MILLION people enslaved right now? Did you know that that is more than at any time under any ruler ever in our history? Doesn't that make you uncomfortable? Anyway, us poor college kids were able to raise over 3 million dollars to increase awareness, action and restoration of those involved all across the globe. No big deal. VERY big deal.
And don't you dare sit there and tell me God isn't at work in our generation. It is simply undeniable when a group of "kids" makes the front pages of websites and cover stories on news stations. 1 Timothy 4:12 says that we are not to let anybody put us down because of our youth, but rather be the example setters in everything we do.
I guess my scatter brain-ed-ness is all to say that it was amazing experience seeing what God can do in my life and in the lives of others when you just open up your heart to what He wants you to do and who He wants you to be. I am more confident than ever and I have a burning PASSION to not only live like the Lord dwells in me, but to TELL other people about it. To set aside my doubts and reservations and run hard after God in all that He is and all that He does.
Next year Passion has the opportunity to fill the Georgia Dome to its full seating capacity and then some. Tickets go on sale in the spring. I've seen what God can do with 45000 students, just imagine how much more he could do with 73000!
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