On the street

Last night was the first night on the street, I wasn´t excited, I wasn´t even sure what I was doing here. As we arrived to the part of the beach we were going to set up, I looked across at the beach bar, with designer deck chair styled seats and cocktail and beer drinking crowd, then over to the black ´MOLA´t-shirt wearing crowd setting up ready to perform and talk about Jesus. I was going to be on the otherside to normal, a wave of fear came over swept over me and I headed for the edge of the beach to sort my head out. I prayed.

God, help me to do this, help' me to have a passion for your name, give ma a passion for spreading the gospel, its the most important thing in the world and I dont have a passion for it. God, help me.´The scripture 32 “Everyone who acknowledges me publicly here on earth, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. 33 But everyone who denies me here on earth, I will also deny before my Father in heaven. came to mind, ´God I dont want to acknowledge you only so you will acknowledge me, I want to acknowldge you and tell people about you because I love you and youve stuck with me, your always there, I want to acknowledge you because your amazing! God, I want to, want to do this - I WANT TO, WANT TO DO THIS! please help me.´

I went and worshiped god with all my heart last night, looking up at the setting sky and worshiped jesus. I hoped people would se the joy that Jesus brings and see for real - I hoped it would break the pre-conceptions of religiosity and boringness of church & God. I was actually impresed with our dances and dramas! they looked good. we were in good spirits even handing out tracts at the end I ran alongside joggers and cyclists I was grinning and and cheeky until they took one, some of the others found a shopping trolly and pushed each other round, there was so much joking and dancing it was great, I hoped people could see we were normal people who just had a relationship with God - but more than that, that it would break the preconceptions that it was BORING!