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was incredible, as usual, tonight. I really have so much reeling around in my head that I'd like to write out, but I just can't get it into sentences for tonight, at this late hour. God has used this man so much in my life and I've never spoken a personal word to him ever before. God's pretty good about things like that.
I just love how Derek can talk for an hour about all these things that are so interesting and so true about the Lord and the Christian life and what it means to be a follower of Christ, and he says it so articulately and with such finesse and sincerity, and just when you think he's going to launch back into a song, he says, "But just one more thing - I just want to remind you that I didn't think up these ideas, and that I don't take credit for them." And he goes on for a while after that, too. I love messy Christians. They put me in my place, but not alone. So thank you, Derek Webb, for your testimony full of grace and redemption. I sorely needed (once again) to hear it.
And now, for your reading pleasure (and I do hope you'll buy the album.. it's very, very good):
"i have come with one purpose
to capture for myself a bride
by my life she is lovely
by my death she?s justified
i have always been her husband
though many lovers she has known
so with water i will wash her
and by my word alone
so when you hear the sound of the water
you will know you?re not alone
?cause i haven?t come for only you
but for my people to pursue
you cannot care for me with no regard for her
if you love me you will love the church
i have long pursued her
as a harlot and a whore
but she will feast upon me
she will drink and thirst no more
so when you taste my flesh and my blood
you will know you?re not alone
?cause i haven?t come for only you
but for my people to pursue
you cannot care for me with no regard for her
if you love me you will love the church
there is none that can replace her
though there are many who will try
and though some may be her bridesmaids
they can never be my bride
?cause i haven?t come for only you
but for my people to pursue
you cannot care for me with no regard for her
if you love me you will love the church
If you love me you will love the church