The birth of a rock 'n' roll preacher ...
I recently shot a promo video for Family Life Network. It tells you a little bit about my faith journey and how I got the name Rock 'n' Roll Preacher. I'm still grateful for the day I walked into a Joe English concert with a lot of questions and walked out with a newfound sense of joy and peace. It was a beginning.
Labels: Blair Hordeski, CJOB, FLN, GodTalk Radio Show, Joe English, Rock 'n' Roll Preacher
posted by The Rock 'n' Roll Preacher at
1/12/2009 02:24:00 AM
2 Comments:
Doubt
Dear R&R Preacher
Interesting interview of an interesting musician and preacher. Always inspirational to see that transformations can take place when least expected. One might attribute your experience to the saying that ' when the student is ready the teacher will appear 'You would probably reply that grace is more profound a gift than this seemingly random crossing of paths.
Your task as a preacher will always be hard as we will experience these transformations as rare exceptions in the human experience. Most live with doubt except when we are under the influence of powerful pleasure or pain; releasing endorphins or adrenaline . In the recent and very interesting movie 'Doubt' the screenwriters gave marvelous insight into this mental world of the doubter. One may doubt one's worth, one's place , one's obligations , the validity of things seen and even one's faith.
What is this faith? Karen Armstrong, in her ' Biography of God' tells us that faith used to mean the passionate assumptions that one based their life on rather that the choice to believe that some particular thing was true or false. This would be a very liberating view for those with doubt. But the doubter still will peek behind the curtain to see what is really what; check the wounds on the hands of those who claim to have risen from the dead etc. Glad to see there was room for Thomas on the group of 12.
In science and medicine the recent 'law of the God's' is probability theory and Bayes theorem. Doubt about an aspect of our life is replaced by the
probability that it might be so. This shift is a pity. Doubt so better represents the fears and questions behind the human condition we find ourselves in. " As a radio and musical star it is quite probable your message will be heard " instead of "I doubt anyone is untouched by your spirit". Probability is dull.
This may have been an incoherent response but I am still glad to have seen the post on your experience. Thanks
P.S The doubter's of the global warming arguments said watch the sunspots. Forget C02. No sunspots = cold , cold cold. Check it out . No sunspots for months now
E=MC**2
Einstein: belief without doubt as its counterpart is a dangerous condition. Even the Apostle Paul -- a fortitude of faith -- had his doubts ... mostly concerning the viability of the Church (a common malady for pastors!).
Your reference to Karen Armstrong is helpful. For me, in 1981, in a prayer huddle with Joe English and band, faith began as a 17 year old's passionate assumptions. I based my life on those passionate assumptions. I'm not sure those assumptions have been called into question a great deal, but the implications of those assumptions are in flux. Perhaps that speaks well to the assumptions, that they could spawn such a constant need to re-examine and re-work one's life.
Interesting note: the video editors chose to include in this video the parts of my dialogue that most closely reflected a modernist certainty of belief. It suited their constituency to edit in this way. Only a handful of people know what I REALLY said (in entirety)!
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