... . This is to say that when we are yoked to Jesus, we know that we are loved, accepted, forgiven. It is amazing how much inner turmoil can be eliminated from our lives when we know we are loved, accepted, forgiven. In 1971, a man named Gavin Bryars was living in London, England. He was working with a friend on a documentary about homeless people living in a rough area near a train station in London. Most of these people had their lives ravaged by alcohol and drugs. Now they lived in desperate conditions ...
... -in-residence. It is both reassuring and remarkable that when the genuine story is finally heard, it is as moving and miraculous as any of the gossiped versions that have been circulating across the globe. This story involves Gavin Bryars, England's leading musician/composer. In 1971, Bryars agreed to help his friend Alan Powers with the audio aspects of a film Powers was making about street people. The filming took place in an area around London's Waterloo Station. Powers filmed various people living on ...
... , an album entirely based upon a recording of an English tramp singing this simple chorus: "Jesus' blood never failed me yet/Never failed me yet/Jesus' blood never failed me yet/This one thing I know/For He loves me so...." It was produced by Gavin Bryars, a modern classical composer, well known for his albums based upon unusual themes. For example, he released an album based upon the legend of the Titanic's string ensemble that played as the ship was sinking, an album that came out several years before the ...
... drama titled "How to Sell a Vacuum Cleaner" (Global Impact, copyright 1997). I first saw this done by the ministry team at The Church on Brady, in Los Angeles. The authors are Randall and Arine Glass and Scott Reynolds. Those of you who used the Gavin Bryars compact disc at Christmas know how powerful the integration of media into preaching and worship can be. Those of you who haven't begun yet to experiment with postmodern forms of communication may find the mix of drama and preaching one oddness too many ...
