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Wednesday, March 23, 2005 Franklin GrahamWell my husband and I faithfully attended all three meetings at the Telstra Dome - Friday, Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. We were rather disappointed at the amount of people that turned up. Saturday night saw the biggest crowd, maybe the draw card was Guy Sebastian, who I enjoyed of course, although seeing him in the flesh was like looking at an ant in the far distance.We were amazed at the amount of people who went forward at the altar call - yes - it did remind me of the old Y.F.C. days, only on a bigger scale. One thing that I noticed that seemed to be missing with 99% of the people going forward, was the emotion of a broken and contrite heart. People were just looking around, laughing and chatting as they walked out the front. I was speaking to the Radiographer that I work with who is a Pastor. She said that she went with a group that had five non-christians. One of those non-christians wanted to go to the front but was nervous and self-conscious about going so four others from the church went out with her. During the counselling session, the person doing the 'counselling' insisted on recording all of the five people's names. The other four were already christians, indeed one of them was an elder. They were pressured to give their names and addresses and were counted as making decisions. A bit disappointing to hear. But lets pray that if even only 10% of the new converts meant what they did, then it was worth it. I felt that the preliminaries went too long. On Sunday the Governor General talked for about 1/2 hour. What he said was good and there was a write up in the Herald Sun, but it went on way too long (I thought so anyway). Personally I thought that Franklin Graham could have given more depth in his messages - hitting it where it hurts the most - but his messages were very simple. I know that it was directed for the person who hasn't heard the Gospel, but there needed to be more 'relevance'. Well I read the Da Vinci code in two & 1/2 'sittings'. Rather controversial. It saddens me that there would be people out there who will read this book and believe that Jesus was indeed married to Mary Magdalene and that there is still a blood line somewhere. But I did learn a few things about the Catholic church. Apparently there is a book out by Dallas entitled "Breaking the Da Vince Code". It's not on the book shelves - you have to ask for it. My friend from church is going to buy one. It will be interesting to read. Good idea for us to write out our testimonies - I haven't done that for several years - so it will be a challenge! Getting old now - clocked over another year today, and it's costing me a fortune to keep those grey hairs covered, but my kids tell me to keep it up! # posted by shellymac @ 7:27 pm 0 comments
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