City on our Knees. by Toby Mac.

Vince and Betsy shared this song with us during our Worship time at Connecting Group last week. Although I’ve heard the song numerous times I’m not sure I’ve ever sat and listened to the lyrics.  For those of you not familiar with the song I encourage you to watch the video above.  I’ve copied the song lyrics below:

“If you gotta start somewhere why not here
If you gotta start sometime why not now
If we gotta start somewhere I say here
If we gotta start sometime I say now
Through the fog there is hope in the distance
From cathedrals to third world missions
Love will fall to the earth like a crashing wave

Tonight’s the night
For the sinners and the saints
Two worlds collide in a beautiful display
It’s all up tonight
When we step across the line
We can sail across the sea
To a city with one king
A city on our knees
A city on our knees
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

If you gotta start somewhere why not here
If you gotta start sometime why not now
If we gotta start somewhere I say here
If we gotta start sometime I say now
Through the fog there is hope in the distance
From cathedrals to third world missions
Love will fall to the earth like a crashing wave

Tonight’s the night
For the sinners and the saints
Two worlds collide in a beautiful display
It’s all love tonight
When we step across the line
We can sail across the sea
To a city with one king
A city on our knees
A city on our knees
Oh-oh-oh

Tonight could last forever
We are one choice from together
Tonight could last forever
Ooh
Tonight could last forever
We are one choice from together
As family
We’re family
Oh Tonight could last forever
We are one choice from together
You and me
Ya, you and me
Tonight’s the night
For the sinners and the saints
Two worlds collide
In a glorious display
Cuz its all love tonight
When we step across the line
We can sail across the sea
To a city with one king
A city on our knees
A city on our knees
Oh oh oh
A city on our knees
A city on our knees
Oh oh oh
If we gotta start somewhere why not here
If we gotta start sometime why not now”

This song calls us into action.  Calls us into service to our communities and each other.  How great would it be to see the Twin Cities, or even just St. Paul, or Frogtown to be that “City on our Knees.”  What ways can we as Connecting Groups go out into our city, our neighborhoods and share the Love of Christ?  What about within our own church? Spring is a great time for Connecting Groups to start new service projects, its a time of renewal and rebirth, or starting fresh. What type of things are your groups doing? Thinking about doing? Stay posted for some Spring related service project ideas.

infused

is your life ‘infused’ with God? Is God the first thing you think about when you wake up in the morning? Is He the last thing you think about before drifting off to Z-land at night? What about everything in the middle? I know recently, that reading the Bible more has opened passages and gateways of communication that I had never before realized, and it allowed God to pass ideas and thoughts about topics and scripture I hadn’t much thought about before. But it didn’t all come from my daily prayer, or reading the Word. Some came from Pastors I had heard on a reputable Christian radio station. More ideas and thoughts came from a mailer I received from a true Christian organization that is standing up for the persecuted church around the world. Not long ago I was feeling down about a particular situation, and God had played the perfect song on a Christian contemporary music station. and it turned my thoughts from ‘woe is me’, to ‘Great is our God!’ Are you getting the picture? I feel that the closer God has drawn me with prayer and the Bible, the more he communicates to me through many other means. He is even sending messages through the secular world…look at Haiti. Sure, there have been countless Christian organizations pouring in help, but in that time between tragedy and rescue, the secular media brought horrific images or hurt and suffering, and God spoke to us through that medium as well. So, while I keep prayer and time in the Word at the top of my list, I try to keep God ‘infused’ in my daily activities. Is God ‘infused’ in your life?