Here is a great, short article on finding your voice by Alex Mcmanus.
I would kill, well maybe not kill, for a chance to go to the Orgins Project which is a conference hosted by Mosaic, a ministry and church that captures my imagination like no other. Led by Erwin Mcmanus, a great author and deep thinker that inspires me to believe and dream that the church can be as she is supposed to be.
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Awsome article. Really some great stuff to ponder.
Glad you liked it.
"What makes that kind of person a shaper of environments is the curiosity that wells up within the rest of us when we meet a person who is fully alive, who has found their own unique voice." - When I read this passage I couldn't help but pray, "Lord help me to live courageously in the spirit, that I might allow you to shape in me a life and voice that is truly alive with your Spirit." Good link bro, I also enjoyed the critique of edginess... it reminded of the difference between people whose style, voice, ilk is different because that's who they are, and those who are different because they have gone out of their way to be 'different' for cools sake. Like the guy from Audio Adrenaline (see photo on Bloom album) who wears the Kentucky State Fair 1985 shirt. He was probably born in Kentucky and went to that fair as a younger kid. Cool, vintage shirt. Not nearly as cool is the barrage of shirts on the market that are made to look 'vintage.' i.e. Abercrombie and Fitch jeans that are made with "worn out holes" in the knee. You can't buy or manufacture vintage, it becomes that by it's nature, organically. Similarly, you can't create "edgy" with God. But if we are tuned into the Spirit of God (the only person who truly knows the thoughts of God - 1Cor. 2:11) we become unique, different, "edgy" simply by following the heart of a God whose nature is unchanging, but whose ways are totally unpredictable. YEE HA! -Dan
Couldn't have said it any better myself, Dan. Great response.
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