Of Crusoe, Compost and Charasmatics

Ahhh Holidays.

Thats right, Fellahs- its that time of term.. ohhoohoo.
MAN ITS MEANT OT BE HTE HOLIDAYS- im not SUPPOSED to be reading Robinson Crusoe and boring snoring English Patient- not like i am XD ill get to it later im sure.
Anyway, Robinson crusoe wasnt so bad... It was acutally quite...exciting : heehee 1800 excitement :) Well, i liked it.

Hmm- Shrub told me that i havent blogged in a while, which is too true- so i shall write.
Haha ive been going to bed at like 12:45 nearly everyday -Just because. Doin things like scribbling on the computer and things. I've been working on my art Express! YAY but then something about my uber crowded disk drive majigi makes my computer unable to turn on so i think ive lost it. Poo. Like total poo man. But it was only coloring it in so i just have to scan it in again to a different compy and ...start again. XP
Never realise how much i use the computer until i can't use it. Its TORTURE- but thankfully we have three others in hte house. PHEW.

Anyway, today the whole fam went outside and started tearing up the garden and dumping things in various other placed. This is what we called- Cleaning the Backyard- a terribly rare and labourous occurence in the house of chan. But it was cool- becuase our backyard is a total bomb :) Full of compost and dog poo and scrab metal XP but its rather theraputic- tearing of weeds and OOh i love using the huge clipper things on the plants. Such a satisfying sound. >8)

Anyway- OK here is a BEtter thing to talk about.
Last wednesday Me, mum and Mum's friend dorothy went to the Hillsong Conference.
For those of yous who don't know what Hillsong is its a GIANT charasmatic church. Huge onChristian music, and they've got heaps of CDs and all this sort of merchandice.
And so for this whole week they held gaint services at the Acer Arena at Homebush- and ive never been before.
There were heaps of other Non-charasmatics there two, i could tell, and the reason that we wanted to go was becuase mum said it was be an 'awesome way to worship' becuase a lot of the focus was the Worship in Song part of the service. Like the singing and stuff.
We got there and there were like THOusands of people there and we had no idea what line to go to. And then we were like Riiiiiiiiiiiight at the top and during the Worhsip part there were these moshers all around us in the top row and im like- no way am i going to move me feet im going to fall over the railing.

YES- the music was awesome. Awesome guitars and awesome drums and awesome singers and awesome subtitles- but i didnt know any of the songs. Like none of them- lots of the people who Were there were Hillsong people, and so they were singing along, really getting into it and waving their hands and closing their eyes and Moshing sometimes and clapping and swaying and moving all over the place.
And im like- ...yay :)
Maybe if i knew the songs, i would be just the same i think. I mean, people often describe the sense of Euphoria you get when your with a crowd, moving and making the same noise for the same God- haha but i had no idea what they were singing. All new hillsongsongs.

But also- it was weird to move and get into music like that. Becuase you Just Dont Do It when your a Presbo- a Presbyterian. Hoo thats really hard to spell.
YEA becuase like, Prespyterian is like, though relaxed, conservative- though i never thought of it that way. Then again, ive never been to a charasmatic church before.
Me and mum were speculating that at church you'd never see the elders clap to music let alone mosh...bwhahahahaha. and raising your hands is really weird.
But thats the elders proablby. Thats my DAD XD
But i thought the Worship at Kyck was really cooll- they had awesome muscos and Awesome singers and it was relaxed and comfortable but taolly mosh-worthy.

In the end...it was a learning experience. I was really so much different to the way ive done it- and i have to say that it was really easy for me to be critical of the Charasmatic way- Oh the message was so shallow and Oh it relied on the HOly spirit too much and Oh they shouldnt focus on it all the time and Blah Blah BLah. Yes- thats what a lot of other denominations think about Charasmatic churches- their music is amzing, but their message is shallow. They do focus on the power of hte holy spirit alot and thats where you see stuff like people fainting and people speaking in tongues.
But really- its not fair for us to be so critical of them. Well, not fair for me to be so critical of them at least- because i think one of the main reasons we get critical is because Charasmatic services put us out of our comfort zone- they make us stand up and physically yell: I AM THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD- which they did make us say that. And its incedible how hard it is to throw your hands in the air, even when everone else is doing it.
And then we alwyas feel embarrased and we're like Ooh- i like my service better becuase its better and whatever.
i guess thats why people feel some churches suit them and some dont and i guess that why there are so many denominations. Hmm- we're all made different. Thats an interesting thought.
Yea- i admire the charasmatic chrsitians becuase they really are not ashamed at all in what they believe in. I htink all of us can learn from.

But i love presbyterianism :) and my Church :) I hope you guys can come and visit one day- its cool.