Monday, February 13, 2006

Bono a prophet?

Eugene Peterson (who authored The Message bible translation) thinks so. You can read about it here:

http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=4232

For those with limited time on their hands (although I'm not quite sure what you're doing on my blog if that's the case) here's an excerpt:

"Is U2 a prophetic voice? I rather think so. And many of my friends think so. If they do not explicitly proclaim the Kingdom, they certainly prepare the way for that proclamation in much the same way that John the Baptist prepared the way for the kerygma of Jesus...Amos crafted poems, Jeremiah wept sermons, Isaiah alternately rebuked and comforted, Ezekiel did street theater. U2 writes songs and goes on tour, singing them."

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi dude!

Nice blog! How is it going? Miss your guitar play and the jammin' was great! Sad we couldn't do it more.

Bless you
Marni

Ps. good article on U2/Bono!

Anonymous said...

I can't figure out who sold out more....

The message for endorsing U2, or U2 for endorsing the message

Anonymous said...

Hey Greg,

great article. thanks for the heads up on it.
(Nice blog by the way, keep it up, and keep up the amazing work with the band.)

Enjoy U2 in Auckland everyone!!

U2 Sermons said...

Thanks for quoting Peterson's forward to the Get Up Off Your Knees book. Always appreciate people passing the word.

Mich said...

it's just music....

Greg said...

Just music... maybe. But so are the psalms...

Anonymous said...

maybe bono is the un-recognised second coming of christ.

Anonymous said...

Maybe... and Helen Clark is the antichrist.