Beautiful music, lovely voices; oh man, one week till school and all its noises! This morning, Beethoven's 7th Symphony and the ability to crank it up or turn it down to my pleasure. Next week, the cacophony of kids without volume controls. Of course some of the music I listen to at other times will sound to many a lot like that second group, Kw/oVC. Looking back to the small group Jesus gathered about Him in the day, we might find some disparate musical tastes as well. Simon the Zealot might have enjoyed a group that sounded like an ambush of a Roman supply train; sort of a precursor to the modern heavy metal band. Simon Peter on the other hand might have lived more for the quieter waltzes of the day, something that wouldn't frighten the fishes away. Matthew would have enjoyed the sounds of Pink Floyd's "Money" had he lived in this age. We have choices even among the disciples of which type of follower of Christ we most identify with.
Jesus chose individuals, and not just any individuals but persons as different from one another as can be imagined. Paul noticed it when the church was young and relatively small. Peter was there for an outpouring of different languages by the Holy Spirit as even at the very start God began calling His followers from many different nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues. I may be weird to a Christian from over there (or those right here), and you may be accounted weird to another Christian from far away. Some would count us intolerant, but we praise God for our diversity. How weird we must seem to the world of unbelievers!
Have a great new life in Christ!Bucky
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