I know that this is long, but please read it. This was amazing.
Last night, I went to the Kutless concert. (Part of the Hearts of the Innocent tour) As some of you may not know, Kutless is a Christian rock band, along with the three other bands that were there. (Run Kid Run, Disciple, and Red) I went with my youth group from my Protestant church. Most of the people in the youth group are Christian, exept for a select few. Me, and two of my friends. (I'm Wiccan, and they are Athiest)
We were at the concert, rockin out, (sadly not in the mosh pit though. Yeah, mosh pit at a Christian rock concert. Pretty sweet, huh?) and after Disciple played their last song, the lead singer read a few verses from the Bible, and then started talking about believing in God and in Jesus. He said that today was the day to do all the s**t you feel you still need to do, and that if you've made a lot of mistakes in your life, and you were filled with sin, that today was the day to repent and rid yourself of everything. Just to fill your life with Jesus. I, unlike my two other non-Christian friends there, I actually listen to anything about any type of spirituality. I am obsessed with everything of that nature. Anyway, when he was almost finished with his little speechy thingy, he told everyone to stand up and to raise their hand if they had sinned and wanted to be forgiven. If they wanted to clean themselves from their past. If they wanted to leave tonight a changed person. The first time he said it, I really wanted to raise my hand, but was way to embarassed. Then he said that it doesn't matter if your hand feels like it weighs fifty pounds right now, if you want to change you need to raise your hand. I was reluctant, but I did. Something he had said before, just touched me in such a way, that I wanted to start again with Jesus in my life and in my heart. It was really strange. Anyways, he told us to join hands with the people next to us, and to pray with him. As he was praying, something just clicked. I realized that my life was s**t and it needed to change. I just broke down crying and asking God for forgivness(not out lound. Sorry. Not that wierd.)
I felt so bad though because my friend (the Athiest one) was standing next to me, and it totally took her by surprise. When she saw that I was crying, she just stood there with me and hugged me, and I felt to bad because this wasn't her thing at all, and it was almost like I was dragging her into it. I don't know. Mabey not, but thats the way I felt. Anyways, after that, the guy also said that if we felt we needed to make a clean start, to go out the doors on the side of the theatre and there were people out there that were going to talk to us and pray with us and help us. I decided that it would probably be a good idea, so I went. This lady, I don't even know her name, came over to me and just started praying with me, and asking God to forgive me for all the stuff that I've done.
It was just amazing. It was almost like this humongus weight being lifted off of my shoulders and off of my heart. I swear I could feel it. Then she gave a book of the New Testament. I don't think I'm going to read the whole thing, but I'll try. I'm really sorry if I sound like a freak. And that this is so long. I just was wondering if anyone has ever had the same kind of expiriance. Oh, and if you've actually read the whole thing down to here, you have an amazing attention span. wink
~ heart ~Livia~ heart ~
Last night, I went to the Kutless concert. (Part of the Hearts of the Innocent tour) As some of you may not know, Kutless is a Christian rock band, along with the three other bands that were there. (Run Kid Run, Disciple, and Red) I went with my youth group from my Protestant church. Most of the people in the youth group are Christian, exept for a select few. Me, and two of my friends. (I'm Wiccan, and they are Athiest)
We were at the concert, rockin out, (sadly not in the mosh pit though. Yeah, mosh pit at a Christian rock concert. Pretty sweet, huh?) and after Disciple played their last song, the lead singer read a few verses from the Bible, and then started talking about believing in God and in Jesus. He said that today was the day to do all the s**t you feel you still need to do, and that if you've made a lot of mistakes in your life, and you were filled with sin, that today was the day to repent and rid yourself of everything. Just to fill your life with Jesus. I, unlike my two other non-Christian friends there, I actually listen to anything about any type of spirituality. I am obsessed with everything of that nature. Anyway, when he was almost finished with his little speechy thingy, he told everyone to stand up and to raise their hand if they had sinned and wanted to be forgiven. If they wanted to clean themselves from their past. If they wanted to leave tonight a changed person. The first time he said it, I really wanted to raise my hand, but was way to embarassed. Then he said that it doesn't matter if your hand feels like it weighs fifty pounds right now, if you want to change you need to raise your hand. I was reluctant, but I did. Something he had said before, just touched me in such a way, that I wanted to start again with Jesus in my life and in my heart. It was really strange. Anyways, he told us to join hands with the people next to us, and to pray with him. As he was praying, something just clicked. I realized that my life was s**t and it needed to change. I just broke down crying and asking God for forgivness(not out lound. Sorry. Not that wierd.)
I felt so bad though because my friend (the Athiest one) was standing next to me, and it totally took her by surprise. When she saw that I was crying, she just stood there with me and hugged me, and I felt to bad because this wasn't her thing at all, and it was almost like I was dragging her into it. I don't know. Mabey not, but thats the way I felt. Anyways, after that, the guy also said that if we felt we needed to make a clean start, to go out the doors on the side of the theatre and there were people out there that were going to talk to us and pray with us and help us. I decided that it would probably be a good idea, so I went. This lady, I don't even know her name, came over to me and just started praying with me, and asking God to forgive me for all the stuff that I've done.
It was just amazing. It was almost like this humongus weight being lifted off of my shoulders and off of my heart. I swear I could feel it. Then she gave a book of the New Testament. I don't think I'm going to read the whole thing, but I'll try. I'm really sorry if I sound like a freak. And that this is so long. I just was wondering if anyone has ever had the same kind of expiriance. Oh, and if you've actually read the whole thing down to here, you have an amazing attention span. wink
~ heart ~Livia~ heart ~
