I am going to Soul Survivor tomorrow. I am taking a group of young people who are all immensely looking forward to it. I suspect I will forget things, but I think I'm looking forward to it as well (bar the tiredness and the rain).
However, I can't help feeling Soul Survivor festivals are about a fix, a high on the Spirit of God (not always on his Spirit I suppose) which sometimes changes lives for the better, and is helpful. But what about those who go and find this amazing and wonderful God but who have no one to invest in them back home? No one to challenge them healthily? These are the people we should be reaching. This is the kind of people the Eden Project works with, and is so effective with. Long may it continue.
I also feel that these festivals can be a bit false, people so happy to be in the presence of God, but not telling him how annoyed they are with him for their troubles in the year, because they don't want others to consider them unholy. Why do we feel we cannot moan at him when he does not help us?
Jeremiah gives us some good examples of rants at God, at laments and tears. For as the tears fall noiselessly, the heart despairs and we must ask ourselves, where is God now? If we do not, how can he answer?
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