Sunday, April 24

For all the U2 lovers..... You have to check out the article about their concert in LA on the Relevant site.

http://www.relevantmagazine.com/article.php?sid=6235

Below are some of my favorite quotes of the article, each for different reasons:

  • On April 5, nobody, including the band’s most vocal detractors, would have been asking questions. That night, U2’s Vertigo tour hit Los Angeles and turned the Staples Center into a cathedral, or a revival tent, if that’s your thing. Either way, God was in the house.
  • This is a prime example of what U2 does at their best: get people socially involved and make them feel cool at the same time.
  • But if anyone harbored doubts about U2 being a Christian band, “Yahweh” laid them to rest. It’s a praise song. Both its lyrics and melody sound like something straight out of a Vineyard church: Take this city/A city should be shining on a hill/Take this city, if it be Your will/ What no man can own, no man can take/Take this heart and make it break. Bono and thousands in the audience stuck their hands in the air, but it didn’t look like typical rock arena exuberance. It looked like a Charismatic Christian convention.

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