Andrew Peterson Rocks and other people are ridiculous

Last night we hosted Andrew Peterson in concert at Christ Church and he was awesome. What a great show. His songs are very insightful and powerful with their blend of lyrics and great celebration of God and life. I was very impressed and left the concert a bigger fan than when I went in. I especially loved his song about Mexican Food. It is the song of my life. There is "mind control in that salsa bowl."

The whole night was almost ruined for me, however, by a very strange conversation with someone at the show. I was cleaning up afterwards and someone approached me with a conversation about the baptismal font in our church. They seemed interested in our approach and methodology for baptism. It was a weird question but I started talking to him about it. He wasn't interested in a conversation, however, he was interested in debating the theology of how you baptize someone. An obvious proponent of immersing people during baptism, he started arguing with me, or attempting to, about our practices. I was dumbfounded, certainly not by his arguments or theology, it was standard baptist theology, but by his purpose. He had just driven 3 hours for a 3 hour concert at my church, which was provided for free, and now he wanted to argue with me, in a condescending and belligerent tone, about baptism!?!? I don't get people. Christian hang ups on specific moral issues, theologies, or social concerns often over shadow the good the Gospel is doing in this world. The church has a bad name because we can't love each other. If we can't love each other inside of the church how will we ever share the love of Christ with the world. So whoever you were, debating baptism with some guy you don't know guy, I offer grace and forgiveness to you and refuse to be irreconciled to you or to trash you. I am glad that you came to our concert, hope you were blessed, and wish you well in your immersion of new believers. May you find the grace to accept us for who we are.