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June 17 2008

John Davis of Superdrag found by Christ

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I don’t claim to be the Associated Press of all that is Christian music. Sometimes I arrive at the scene a little late, this would be one of those times, but I don’t think too many people knew about this. One of my favorite bands in the 90s was Superdrag, they are best known for their hit “Sucked Out” off their cd “Regretfully Yours”. I saw them live with Ben Folds Five and that show to this day goes down as one of my all time favorites.

John Davis founded the band, led on vocals and guitar. Incredible songwriter, incredible rock voice, killer guitar work, what else can you say, dude was just a flat out rock star. He also lived the life of a rock star and hit rock bottom. One night, prior to the release of their last album, while driving to his parent’s house Davis pulled over and prayed to God. John said he felt God answered him right there and it was life changing for him. John sobered up and soon left the band.

John’s latest solo album Arigato is awesome. It has a lot of the Superdrag grit but lyrically he’s all about talking about the greatness of God. It’s amazing to hear modern day Damascus road stories and to see the fruit of that experience lived out in someone’s life. Go check John out on myspace, I’ll be working on getting an interview with him. Oh and Superdrag is reuniting and releasing a new cd….yes!

On January 8th, 2008, John Davis announced on the Superdrag news section that the band is reunited indefinitely, stating that “Superdrag’s original line-up will reconvene in the recording studio in February to begin work on our first new recording project together since 1998’s Head Trip In Every Key.”

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May 14 2008

Church offers free gas to attract new members

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Gas pricesHere’s American cheap church gimmick #135,346,234 in drawing people to service. First Baptist Church in Snellville, GA put out a sign in front of the church offering “Free Gasoline”. And just to show that the church is not above misleading marketing ploys, there is a catch. Every time you attend a church service or “event” you are entered into a raffle for a $500 gas card. This is a very interesting headline for this story:

“Church in Georgia tempts prospective worshippers with $500 gasoline raffle”

The term “prospective worshippers” is an interesting choice of phrasing, and when I say interesting I mean terrible. Nobody is a prospective worshiper, we were formed as worshipers, born in continuing worship, and now live a life of either fallen or redeemed worship. I don’t attribute this headline to the church pastor at all but it’s a telling statement and perspective of faith by the writer which is shared by a lot of the church. This belief and attitude negatively impacts our ministry and evangelism by believing that we just need to find a way to get people in corporate gatherings and to start worshiping by mere attendance or participation and our mission is accomplished. This is made further evident by this telling statement in the article.

“The church boasts a congregation of 9,000 but church officials say only about 2,500 regularly attend Sunday services.”

So we boast about a group of uncommitted, event attending, “prospective” worshipers? This certainly doesn’t sound like the description Christ gave as to who was a follower and who wasn’t. Shouldn’t we be able to say, “we have a group of committed disciples, living a life of redeemed worship in fellowship with fellow believers, being sharpened with accountability, reaching out to the lost through loving relationship and gathering together regularly to celebrate our victory in Christ and to testify of His goodness”. That’s the description I want to give of my church, that sounds like an Acts church.

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