The following resource is from Desiring God.org.

I wonder if you have paused to ponder how simple and strange what we are doing at passion is.

We sing and we preach and we preach and we sing and there's message and there's music and music and music and

and message, how strange and simple that is.

I know there are more pieces to it than that. I know there are community groups. I know this

amazing event is undergirded with prayer. I know that there are extraordinary logistical efforts that make it happen,

but when you watch it from the outside it looks like they preach and they sing and they preach and they sing.

Have you ever stopped to ponder and let it sink in how strange that is?

No other religion does this.

None. No other philosophical or political movement on the planet does this.

Muslims don't do this,

Hindus don't do this, Buddhists don't do this, Sikhs don't do this,

Sikhs don't do this, Apple Computer, even though they have their worship services, and Tim Cook may preach,

he do sing! Only Christians do this, why is that? This cries out for an explanation. I don't like to do things without a reason. I don't like

to just year after year go to passion because it's done, it's done.

It's fun.

Other people have done it.

I'll do it too.

Let's just do it.

I like to have reasons for what I do, reasons that are sunk down into ultimate reality,

reasons that have goals that reach up into ultimate reality, so that I'm anchored at the bottom and anchored at the top and my life does what it does because there's connection with ultimate reality.

That's what I like to do.

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