Casting Crowns If We've Ever Needed You

The Vision

Colors. I remember seeing lots of colors: bright ones, dark ones, some in between. There were hundreds of colors. People were gathered all around. What was occurring? They were stopping their own agendas and participating in a new one. I looked at their faces. Total abandonment is what they expressed. They moved and acted in freedom through their selfless faith. But weren't these people always free? Or were they slowly being chained without awareness to the death that was to meet them? I stood there in the midst. Simply taking it all in. As, I gazed, I understood why people could not help but join in. Their cry was one all can relate to. One that everyone was fashioned with when their Creator made them. A cry for worship. An expression that was united in the hearts of all: "To worship YOU I live!" This cry was a global one, yet, to be global, it must also be local. It was from the voices of Houston citizens. Houston. Houston, to worship God you live. Oh Houston, be free. Your Creator is here, can't you see Him? Take off the mud and filth that blinds your eyes. Let Him wash you and cleanse you from the sin that you wear. Surrender and come running back into His open arms.

The cry was heard through music. The music of people's voices. A sound that flooded the town like a tsunami. Its large waves wrapping around skyscrapers, hospitals, businesses, schools, and homes. Worship penetrated every part of one's being as the voices rose throughout the city. As this vulnerable, pure, passionate, and yet, bold, praise saturated all who were present, change occurred. Murder of the innocent began to cease. Rape and sexual slavery were beginning to vanish. People were no longer starving. Change occurred and like beauty from ashes, life began to appear in this dying city.

The aspiration is to impact community by equipping them for change. This ministry is based off of the idea, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." The foundation of "Breaking Bread" is to feed this city with bread that will satisfy hunger forever. Jesus said in John 6:35, " I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But you haven't believed in me even though you have seen me. However, those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them."

><<:>Bring change to this city that spreads to the next. Let the change be lasting and LOUD. Let the roots of this change be planted in the foundation of worship. And may this tree reach to the heavens and bring forth life.