Sólo Cristo

Last night, I went to the Hillsong United concert here in Buenos Aires. It was awesome. In case you don´t know, Hillsong United is a "youth" praise and worship band that is a ministry of Hillsong Church in Australia. The band has traveled to different countries around the world. They have some really great music, but I'm more excited about the focus of their ministry. They desire to encourage a new generation of believers to live for Jesus. Yep, Jesus. The Jesus who sometimes when you mention His name it is considered radical and can make people uncomfortable. That's sort of funny because it was the same way in Jesus' time with the religious leaders as it is today in 2007. But really, Jesus is wonderful. Everything.

The soccer stadium had lots of people, most of them young, fending off cold and rain to sing and praise God. In both Spanish and English. The band sung in both languages, and the crowd followed in both. The language barrier didn't matter that much at all. There was so much joy in that place last night. I didn't want it to end.

Last night I realized that I very possibly was experiencing a small glimpse of what Heaven is going to be like, at least I hope. There we were, a bunch of believers united to sing praises to God Most High. We were doing what we were created for...worshipping the Lord, and I got to see that here on earth, for real, en vivo, on a large scale. Can you imagine how cool Heaven will be? That many more brothers and sisters, singing unending, beautiful praises to the Lord of the Universe, and there won't be any language barrier. We'll either speak a bunch of different languages and understand them all, or we'll all know one celestial language.

Seeing that last night encourages me greatly, it's like getting to see who wins before the championship game is over. And so now, it's time to go out into the streets, offices, and classrooms to recruit other brothers and sisters to come and join the Heaven praise party. I want as many voices singing with me as possible. All for Jesus. Sólo Cristo.