Awakening

My experiences with getting churches to work together has been limited but the experience that I have had has shown me that getting everyone on the same page for an event like Awakening is not an easy task. Almost impossible. With the rise of the denominational church, our generation has become a very ambitious, independent church causing us to become a body that doesn’t know its eye from its big toe but expects its foot to act like an arm.
    
Now to stand in a room with 400 other young adults and worship together is something we do week in week out but to stand in a room of 400 young adults comprised of Pentecostals, Baptists, Anglicans and Catholics from England, France, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, etc and to see every hand lifted in unified worship brought me to tears.
    
There was this one moment in particular in London where the worship was just hanging on the presence of God and everyone started singing their own song to God and then in a moment everyone, without the aid of a worship leader, just united in one loud chorus of Worship.
    
Awaken my heart, awaken my soul, awaken this life to you oh God…
    
For a moment we were a church that felt so beautiful and pure that we could have been mistaken to be the bride of Christ.
    
It made me think that if we, the Christians, can all get on the same page and stay there then maybe the Muslims, and Jews, and Hindus, and Buddhists, and Atheists just might start thinking that these Christians are on to something…
    
My prayer is that this newfound unity and brotherhood in the faith between the different church’s and denominations doesn’t stop here at an event. I believe that this is the dawning of a new day and I pray that this continues to shine brighter and brighter and brighter….
    
I think we saw some light on the horizon.

Joel Corrigan
    
Awaken this Love.