TXT3

So a couple of us went to the AC/DC concert in San Antonio the other night and it got me thinking about the effects of a worship environment.  Sounds strange, right?  Why do 20,000 people pack the AT&T Center in San Antonio and sing at the top of their lungs while the very next day thousands of people will fill a local church and stand with their hands in their pockets during worship? 

How much does the environment pull a person into the moment?  Smoke, lights, and staging let’s you know that you are at a big event (of course the $100 ticket could have told you that, too).  Obviously, those things aren’t needed to experience God.  All you need is the Holy Spirit, but are we conditioned to connect and give everything when we are at the “event.”

How much time, effort, and money do you put into the visual, audio, and emotive expereince for worship . . . especially when you only need the Holy Spirit?  Great questions to think about.  At TXT3, we’ll have some elements that help bring people into worship, but more than anything we want the Holy Spirit to show up and blow people away.

20,000 people singing “Highway to Hell” with Brian Johnson . . . how many of them are really on that path, while the church sits complacently by and offers them nothing else?