Motley Crue Concert Experience

How do you know that you're behind and stale? You go to something that's comparable to what you do and you watch. Yesterday, Lauren got free tickets through her work for the Motley Crue concert at the BI-LO Center last night. Motley Crue makes no bones about it - they're a satanic worship group. And those of you reading this know we are worship leaders also; we're just on the other side. So I quickly jumped at the chance of going. Once there, I was really uncomfortable. Especially during their hit song, Shout at the Devil. Let me say, Motley Crue didn't come on till 9pm so for the 3 hours prior, the bands were decent. But what started out to be a heavy metal concert turned into a satanic worship environment in less than 3 seconds. From the pentagrams to the cross of Jesus turned upside down to the red and fire everywhere to the chants of the band and audience, this was a full fledge worship service. Sound was probably 140db and they probably spent between 3-5 million on their light show alone. They started the show out with a very vulgar and difiant slam on heaven. And the lead singer even showed off his latest sex toy as he had incorporated it into his attire for the night.

With all of this going on, I couldn't help but to think about the state of the church. In churches all across the nation, worship leaders are refused the chance to tap into their creativity because the light can't strobe for more than 15 seconds or the sound can't be over 80db or "you just can't wear that." I witnessed probably 15,000 people participate in this satanic worship service and no one cared that the lead singer had a sex toy tied around his waist. The sad part is you could feel the demonic activity increase with the start of every song because of the unity. The church of America is hung on that issue right there - unity. If we could ever get unity in the house of God, satanic worship would come to a standstill. Instead, we as a church forfeit our power for the temperature - or the loudness of - or even what the pastor wears, leaving the church useless and irrelevant.

You want to see true revival? I'm not talking about the ones churches do to pad their accounts so they can pay the bills. I'm talking about those encounters with God that leave us empowered to change the world around us. If this is you, I challenge you to focus your life and line it up with God. Don't be worried about this or that. Focus on the people that need your help, and one by one, we can change this world.