As Christians preaching and singing is part of our weekly routine, it feels normal enough,

but if you look around, you'll notice this routine is actually quite odd.

So why do we preach and why do we sing?

Pastor John explained in his message at the Passion Conference to about 20,000 students

in Atlanta on January 3rd, 2015.

Here's what he said.

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 message, how strange and simple that is.

No other religion does this, none.

No other philosophical or political movement on the planet does this.

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

Apple computer, even though they have their worship services and Tim Cook may preach,

they don't 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 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.

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