The Presbyterian Church USA is having a conference called the Big Tent to represent all the diversity in the Church. I can't be there but after several weeks of enjoying various videos that I want to share I thought I would produce my own Big Tent. It will be very diverse. Really!
The first one is a band playing in a service in Brazil in what must surely be a Pentecostal Church. The music is great both because of its worshipful sounds and because of a fantastic saxophone solo.
After enjoying the sax and the worship, the beauty of God's gifts, God's healing and his gifts of talents are combined in this video. Gaylen Stewart uses his art to tell of God's healing. It was a recommend by a friend, Steve Scott, a staff member of Warehouse Ministries, and an artist, poet and musician in his own right. This video is by and about Gaylen Stewart.
Our diversity is tied together in a ministry of proclamation. All are called to tell of the good news that Jesus Christ lived, died and was resurrected. It is the Church's Lord which allows for such diversity; without Jesus Christ we are not one, but just a mass of difference.
This is a benediction. My daughters have always loved the music of Rich Mullins who was killed in an accident several years ago. Here he sings the Creed. The people in the video are the ones he spent his life ministering to.
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