Photographs from previous Revelation events and a few VJ images
Last Updated ( Saturday, 07 November 2009 )
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Written by james
Saturday, 07 November 2009
an evening of dancing, singing, worshipping Jesus, prayer, meditation and sharing all within a flow of dance music - trance & house
Hi - we stopped in 2007 for various reasons, but it's 2009 and some Christian DJ's have started meeting in Bristol to pray and consider starting up something new. Facebook group - Revelation DJ led worship - should keep you informed
VJ James Bragg leading worship and visuals with Tony "The Psalmist" Silcock DJing
our passion has been electronic music, dancing to beat music and coming into the presence of God through worship. we decided we wanted to combine these three things and enjoy dancing in God's presence.
we have put together a set of well known christian congregational songs with a backing of electronic dance music. it is led by a DJ via twin decks with live singers. during these evenings we have mixed this with christian dance music but also secular chart dance music as there is great creativity in a lot of it and much is surprisingly sympathetic to worship. this is not particularly a youth event, more of an experiment in worship - all ages welcome.
this is a talk I gave in our church a while ago which descibes some of my thoughts Worshipping a Creative God Intro
Good morning, you have seen me up here many times before but never preaching. I feel pretty nervous as I usually only feel comfortable when I am hiding behind a guitar or keyboard (or maybe these days twin turntables)
I was asked to speak on Worship, but not given a title so I have decided on �Worshipping a Creative God�. I will admit that I have strayed rather onto creativity alone as well as creativity in worship.
As I was thinking and starting to pray I remembered some excellent tapes of a talk by David Ruis from the Vineyard that I lost after lending to a friend a number of years ago. I had tried many times to get them back but with no success. So not really expecting much I rang and had to leave a message with his wife as he was out. 10 minutes later he arrived with them at my door! I was really surprised and taking into account how disorganised he and his house is this encouraged me that God wanted me to speak on creativity, so I hope I manage to put across what God wants to highlight to us this morning. Some of this talk comes from those tapes.
I know that my main passion is music and I am concentrating on this aspect of creativity. Of course I recognise many other important streams of creativity and what I am saying is probably relevant to these as well, but still I am going to focus on music.
God the Creator
Genesis 1 1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2Now the earth was� formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3And God said, �Let there be light,� and there was light. 4God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5God called the light �day,� and the darkness he called �night.� And there was evening, and there was morning�the first day.
God brought everything into existence but it is so hard to take in how awesome God�s creativity is. The size of the universe is staggering. In all the Sci-Fi I can think of, the whole story remains in our 1 galaxy. Even at warp 9 it would take a space ship 70 years to cross it. It contains 100,000,000,000 stars like our own sun. And yet there are an estimated 100,000,000,000 galaxies, 1,000,000,000 have been mapped, each like our own.
But it is not just the size, but also the detail. The chemical reactions in one single animal cell are more complex than we have yet discovered and the detail of one atom is quite surprising. God is the God of too much. In the sea there are fishes and creatures we are yet to discover, God didn�t just make a few birds, he made an incredible variety. There are animals in the Rain Forest yet to be found. There are too many beetles � 380,000 different species. There are 50,000 types of weevils. And the quality of God�s creation. Complex, beautiful, efficient, wonderful, vast, glittering, lush, stark, flamboyant.
Are we meant to be dull and passionless, boring and austere?
