리치 멀린스 "Awesome God"

Rich Mullins - AwesomeGod - Live

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Well thank you all so much for coming out and I hope you'll go home and read your bible. I always find it interesting all the people who read the bible say they can find answers and, just about every time in my life I have ever found an answer if I went back and read the bible, it would blow it out of the water. So I have given up trying to find answers in the bible, and am learning to look in there for the weirdest character of all of them, and that would be God almighty himself, who is, bizarre from our whole point of view, that someone can be so totally out there and so completely by himself, and yet he could want us. Badly enough that he would become like us, in order to help us become like him, and if you want a religion that makes sense, I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, I think this is the one.

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When He rolls up His sleeves
He ain't just putting on the ritz
(Our God is an awesome God)
There's thunder in His footsteps
And lightning in His fists
(Our God is an awesome God)
And the Lord wasn't joking
When He kicked 'em out of Eden
It wasn't for no reason
That He shed His blood
His return is very close
And so you better be believing that
Our God is an awesome God

CHORUS:
Our God is an awesome God
He reigns from heaven above
With wisdom, power, and love
Our God is an awesome God

CHORUS

And when the sky was starless
In the void of the night
(Our God is an awesome God)
He spoke into the darkness
And created the light
(Our God is an awesome God)
Judgement and wrath He poured out on Sodom
Mercy and grace He gave us at the cross
I hope that we have not
Too quickly forgotten that
Our God is an awesome God

CHORUS(4x)

Our God is an awesome God
(Our God is an awesome God)
He reigns from heaven above
(He reigns from heaven above)
With wisdom, power, and love
(With wisdom, power, and love)
Our God is an awesome God

Our God is an awesome God
Our God is an awesome God

수화로 "Awesome God"을 부르고 있는 모습

"알파벳으로 수화하는 방법"
참조: http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/topics/wallpaper1.htm

Richard Wayne Mullins (October 21, 1955 – September 19, 1997) was an American Contemporary Christian Music singer and songwriter born in Richmond, Indiana. Mullins was best known for his worship songs "Awesome God" and "Step by Step", both of which have been embraced as modern classics by many Christians.
On September 19, 1997, Rich Mullins and his friend Mitch McVicker were traveling on I-39 north of Bloomington, Illinois, to a benefit concert at Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas, when his Jeep flipped over. They were not wearing seat belts and were thrown from the vehicle. When a passing semi-trailer truck swerved to avoid the Jeep, Mullins, who was too injured to move out of the way, was hit by the truck and died instantly. McVicker was badly injured but survived.

A lot of the stuff which I thought was so different between Protestants and Catholics [was] not, but at the end of going through an RCIA [Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults] course, I also realized that there are some real and significant differences. I'm not sure which side of the issues I come down on. My openness to Catholicism was very scary to me because, when you grow up in a church where they don't even put up a cross, many things were foreign to me. I went to an older Protestant gentleman that I've respected for years and years, and I asked him, "When does faithfulness to Jesus call us to lay aside our biases and when does it call us to stand beside them?" His answer to me was that it is not about being Catholic or Protestant. It is about being faithful to Jesus. The issue is not about which church you go to, it is about following Jesus where he leads you.

by wikipedia

리치 멀린스의 말은 다 의미가 있다. 그래서 위에 그가 했던 말들을 올려보니 꼭 읽고 의미를 되새겨보길 바란다. 오늘도 멀어지지 말고 한발짝 다가서길 기대해본다. 리치 멀린스가 작곡한 "Awesome God"을 마이클 스미스가 부르는 것( 마이클 스미스 "Awesome God" )도 감동적이다. 아래 관련글을 클릭해서 한번 더 듣고 가슴이 충만해지는 한주가 되길...

CCM : Christian Contemporary Music
현대 기독교 음악, 원래 지저스 뮤직(Jesus music)이라고 불렸다.

Contemporary Christian music (or CCM—and occasionally "inspirational music") is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith.

The genre that would eventually be known as Contemporary Christian music, officially came from the Jesus movement revival of the latter 1960s and early 1970s, and was originally called "Jesus music". "About that time, many young people from the sixties' counterculture professed to believe in Jesus. Convinced of the bareness of a lifestyle based on drugs, free sex, and radical politics, 'hippies' became 'Jesus people'". Of course there were people who felt like Jesus was another "trip". It can be assumed that many people took it seriously and revivals sprang forth.[original research?] When such awakenings happened new music became popular. "The 'Jesus Movement' of the 1970s was when things really started changing and Christian music began to become an industry within itself." "Jesus Music" started by playing instruments and singing songs about love and peace, which then translated into love of God. Paul Wohlegemuth, who wrote the book Rethinking the Church said, "1970s will see a marked acceptance of rock-influenced music in all levels of church music. The rock style will become more familiar to all people, its rhythmic excesses will become refined, and its earlier secular associations will be less remembered."

From Wikipedia

리치 멀린스는 크리스찬이면서도 우리가 할 수 없는 삶을 살다 갔습니다.
다음글(리치 멀린스의 생애와 "Step By Step (Sometimes By Step)")을 이어서 보세요.
이어지는 글 '선택을 받아야 되는 것'에 대하여-3까지 이어서 보세요.