God showed up early.

God showed up days before we got here and made his presence known the first night we were here. I've seen glimpses of heaven, where people from everywhere come to praise God. Here's an example of what I"m talking about, in my apartment there is; Owen - a drummer from Montana: Eli- a guitarist from Massachusetts: Nolan - a drummer from Ohio: Bevan - a piano player from New Zealand: Brian - a pianist from Virginia: and Will - a videographer from Wisconsin. There are also people here from Wyoming, Florida, Oregon, California, Texas, and Argentina, and thats not everywhere. IT's a beautiful thing, when we are having praise and worship and you hear accents from everywhere all singing praise to One Man. This One Man has proven himself worthy by hearing stories of God coming through where it could only be Him. God has already proven and explained so many things that have happened lately. Things I've been dealing with and things I've wondered, and proven things I've thought to be true.

I won't go into a lot of detail, but here's some scripture that Keynote is based around, and stuff I learned yesterday. In 1 Corinthians 9:22, Paul says "I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some." Wow, what a power-packed verse. Paul is willing to transform himself into any demographic so that he might make this connection. earlier in Acts 17:16-30, Paul is in this meeting in Athens and begins to blow their mind with this new story. But how he goes about it is how Keynote kind of operates also. Paul starts out by noting their devoutness in their religious ceremonies, (He applauded what they have in common by finding common ground.) Then he went on in verse 28 to quote the secular poets of the day, (he spoke a common language.) Today, not too many people go around quoting poets of the day. Our modern day poets are. . . musicians. Letting their poetry flow to the beat of music. So Keynote takes secular music, music that people can identify with and have common ground, and by speaking that common language, they can connect with the people they come in contact with. Then after Paul made this connection with them, he told them the most amazing story ever. Then after the connection is made, through music, they get to tell them the most amazing story ever (funny thing is, the story hasn't changed). I love funny stories.

Right now, all of the projects are going through ministry training. This training shows us different ways to share God with the world, ways to connect, and ways to better commuincate  God. Tomorrow, we continue with training and begin using our individual talents and gifts we've been given: the bands begin to rehearse, the film team begins writing scripts, and we, the "media" team begin our promotional projects for the bands. Today, they talked about us being the forerunners like John the Baptist, by not calling attention to us, but by doing what we've done to point to Him. One guy described it as an announcer for the basketball game, he makes all this noise and works really hard to get everyone's attention, then points them to the stars. Thats how we are, people look at us and we point them to Him.