A young man from our church here in Abbotsford asked this wonderful question of me on Facebook – I decided the question is good enough to Blog the answer.
Great question, two things come to mind (sorry - three):
While at worship in Church
Pastor - Hallelujah
Congregation - Hallelujah
Pastor - Hallelujah!!
Congregation - Hallelujah!!
Pastor - HALLELUJAH
Congregation - HALLELUJAH
Pastor - HALLELUJAH!!!
Congregation - HALLELUJAH!!!
Done about ten to fifteen times, in ever increasing volume. In spite of the hurt and fear and loss, the people praise God!
I spent a day under a tent with about 500 people being trained as trauma counsellors. At one point the teacher (part of our team) had some volunteers come and demonstrate a child's game to help kids learn to have fun again.
First two ladies came up and started one of those clapping games that I can never do. Then one more came up so it was three, finally a fourth joined them. They then did the clapping with each other once, twice, three times,... increasing the tempo each time. When they did it the last time at quite a fast pace, the audience erupted in a cheer and had smiles on their faces and laughed. Judy, the trainer, asked, "For how many of you was this the first time that you laughed?"
Many hands went up - God had begun some healing in these souls!
Finally - I watched "The Jesus Film" in front of the former presidential palace. Use Google Earth to find it and see the start of tent cities. These are now crowded with tents and tarps.
Campus Crusade/Power to Change has been using the Jesus Film as an evangelistic tool for years. In Haiti, the people are finding comfort from watching it so Campus is showing it every night!
About 500 people came to watch, we sang some worship songs before the film started and then the film began. The first miracle that Jesus performed was the miraculous catch of fish. The disciples had fished all night and caught nothing. Jesus tells them to put the nets on the other side of the boat and they catch the biggest catch ever.
THE WHOLE AUDIENCE CHEERED!
And so it went through the movie, Jesus raises the girl from the dead, cheering. Jesus feeds the 5000, cheering.
The climax of the movie is Jesus own resurrection from the dead - the place erupted in cheering and clapping.
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