Beating about the bush

Angus At Loftus

On the 20^th May I mentioned I had tried to get tickets for Loftus for yesterday the 19^th of July. I had tried to get the tickets in March thinking I was early, the fact was I had only heard about it after it was already sold out, the event was sold out in less than a week.

Last month in June I was in Johannesburg twice once to visit someone in hospital, ten days later to attend the funeral of the same person. The first time we went we got lost in the area we had to go to. We had to return some things we had which belonged to somebody else, which had been with us for a couple of years. We stopped at a filling station and phoned the people, asking me where I was, I mentioned we were opposite a refugee camp, which had been set up as a result of the xenophobic attacks. The people came collected their stuff, drove in front of us to where we had to go.

Ten days later after attending the funeral and the service we went to Heidelberg, where we visited family, it was casually mentioned they had tickets for Loftus, and two of the batch was for us. They didn’t know I have this blog, or that I had posted something about Angus Buchan. I hadn’t told them about this blog, because it was never intended to be a Christian blog, I already have one;(which I need to work on.) This blog was primarily set up to show someone else how to set up a blog, and how easy it was to set it up. Setting up blogs is easy, it is maintaining them where the work comes in, an area I really need to work on.

All this seems like scattered fragments, yet stepping back a little, they all come together.

Being at Loftus Stadium with sixty odd thousand people was awesome and humbling; it also illustrated to me graphically the logistics of how big the tent must have been, for the Mighty Men God Conference, which was held On Angus’ farm just outside Greytown earlier on in the year. Not to mention the fact of 60000 men together for a weekend, without a single fight or swear word. Angus shared feedback of, a father and son reconciliation, fathers and husbands returning home changed men.

Seeing the crowd as one raising their hands in praise and worship, or the crowd going down on bended knees; At the start of his message he asked that everyone turn to a stranger and pray for each other. I am inclined to stutter, or mumble if praying aloud with strangers, yet when I started to pray the prayer came out of my mouth with clarity and conviction without thought of what I was going to say.

As Angus went into his message, a simple one delivered by a simple humble man, several areas of my life that needed working on became crystal clear. When Angus said that change in our country wouldn’t come out of the House of Parliament, but out of the kitchen door, I thought of the refugee camp I had seen and taken pictures of, the same one which had been in the news this week. It is up me as an individual to do something, not to hang around for the government to do it.

If I can’t see what I can do, I can start by praying and praying earnestly for the direction. Everybody can pray.

Angus being at Loftus was organised by Loftus For Jesus, and it was very well organised, but then God was in control, at the end of the day that is what it was all about, all about Jesus.

http://www.loftusforjesus.com

Angus is planning for two hundred thousand for the Men Of God Conference for next year, last year it was five and a half thousand, this year sixty thousand.

http://www.shalomtrust.co.za

  

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