Decryption AI
09-07-2007, 07:20 AM
<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">These lyrics, made famous in another generation by Dave Loggins and more recently by Mr. Kenny Chesney, are echoing in our hearts as we now are just a few weeks away from Passion's return to New England. While everyone has heard of the Green Monster, Boston Harbor and the storied institutions like Harvard and MIT that dot the landscape, we see more. Boston, and New England as a whole, is a collegiate epicenter that shapes the world. Boston alone has close to 300,000 university students on 80 campuses, but those numbers both skyrocket when you extend to neighboring Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Maine and beyond. As a result, those like Passion who value university students cannot help but focus on Boston and NE as a whole.
But, beyond the sheer numbers of students and campuses of influence, we are drawn to Boston and New England because of the challenging spiritual climate. People say it's a spiritually dark city, and I agree. In the little video story we have included you'll see me down at Faneuil Hall in the midst of a huge election event, talking about people coming to worship Jesus at a Passion Tour event a few blocks away. As I was speaking on camera a women walking behind me, when hearing the name of Jesus, came up behind me and tried to put some kind of hex on me. Strange as that sounds, it's a fit with the spiritual tension that permeates the city.
Any Believer in Boston who is remotely “awake” will tell you the battle is real and the enemy has a foothold there. Yet, we are not going to New England in the name of Passion...or any person. We head to Boston in the name of Jesus Christ, and are going there for His renown. Sure, we expect opposition on many levels, but we are not going alone. This little Blog holds much potential, and the Passion Movement circles the globe. So our hope is that these words will marshal a wave of faith as people start aiming their prayers of hope and light toward New England. We are not foolish enough to roll into Boston without such an effort, and are humbly asking you to walk beside us and cover us with your prayers in these days.
On our first trip to the city (see video) we had the collected prayers of 33 Tour cities behind us as we arrived in Boston. This time around we don't have that luxury and are asking God to raise up people from the north, south, east and west who will stand with us for the duration of this gathering…starting now.
If you don't already know, Passion Boston is October 12/13 in the Agganis Arena on the campus of Boston University. Schools start later in NE than the rest of the country and students are just returning to campuses. So please help us spread the word to anyone you know in New England and pray that Passion Boston will be huge catalyst for the coming year as students unite to make Jesus famous on their campuses and throughout the northeast.
LG
PS- The two videos tell the story of Passion's first official Boston stop in 2003, and will give you a taste of why we are so passionate about this step in our journey.
http://www.268media.com/ftp/reaching/reaching_blog1.jpg
http://www.268media.com/ftp/reaching/reaching_blog2.jpg
(http://www.268generation.com/regionals07)
More... (http://268blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/please-come-to-boston.html)
But, beyond the sheer numbers of students and campuses of influence, we are drawn to Boston and New England because of the challenging spiritual climate. People say it's a spiritually dark city, and I agree. In the little video story we have included you'll see me down at Faneuil Hall in the midst of a huge election event, talking about people coming to worship Jesus at a Passion Tour event a few blocks away. As I was speaking on camera a women walking behind me, when hearing the name of Jesus, came up behind me and tried to put some kind of hex on me. Strange as that sounds, it's a fit with the spiritual tension that permeates the city.
Any Believer in Boston who is remotely “awake” will tell you the battle is real and the enemy has a foothold there. Yet, we are not going to New England in the name of Passion...or any person. We head to Boston in the name of Jesus Christ, and are going there for His renown. Sure, we expect opposition on many levels, but we are not going alone. This little Blog holds much potential, and the Passion Movement circles the globe. So our hope is that these words will marshal a wave of faith as people start aiming their prayers of hope and light toward New England. We are not foolish enough to roll into Boston without such an effort, and are humbly asking you to walk beside us and cover us with your prayers in these days.
On our first trip to the city (see video) we had the collected prayers of 33 Tour cities behind us as we arrived in Boston. This time around we don't have that luxury and are asking God to raise up people from the north, south, east and west who will stand with us for the duration of this gathering…starting now.
If you don't already know, Passion Boston is October 12/13 in the Agganis Arena on the campus of Boston University. Schools start later in NE than the rest of the country and students are just returning to campuses. So please help us spread the word to anyone you know in New England and pray that Passion Boston will be huge catalyst for the coming year as students unite to make Jesus famous on their campuses and throughout the northeast.
LG
PS- The two videos tell the story of Passion's first official Boston stop in 2003, and will give you a taste of why we are so passionate about this step in our journey.
http://www.268media.com/ftp/reaching/reaching_blog1.jpg
http://www.268media.com/ftp/reaching/reaching_blog2.jpg
(http://www.268generation.com/regionals07)
More... (http://268blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/please-come-to-boston.html)