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RockyG666 63M
1750 posts
7/12/2014 10:00 am

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7/12/2014 5:26 pm

what is god's garage?

I have not gotten around to finishing the "info" page on my website. That is because I just did four long years of serious mental abuse at North Park Theological Seminary and this feels too much like another one of the ridiculous assignments I was forced to complete. State your purpose concisely and back it up with scriptural examples and scholarly theology. Don't bother about being authentic, fake it. Give them what they want to hear and get the good grade.

Well, North Park stiffed me for my degree, not to mention ordinance, and I am NOT doing anymore childish and forced "spiritual" essays. It makes me sad and angry the way in which so many organizations of God lose sight of the important stuff. I do not need a degree from an institution that treats people the way North Park has treated me and other aging students.

On the positive side, I learned a buttload about God and the bible. I have completed 95 out of 96 credit hours with upwards of a 3.5 GPA. I entered Seminary because I had a vision to open a gathering place for music and the arts under God. When I prayed about this plan, God directed me to get a foundation first. North Park supplied me with a great foundation, albeit WAY overkill. I would not have been prepared to open God's Garage without much of what I learned at North Park. There are many great people there too.

I have been a musician all my life. I have watched as many of my friends have opened musical venues where crowds of people gather. However, such establishments are always centered around intoxication, sex, and other not so great behavior. I want to make a place where people can come and meet and enjoy music and art and each other without so much not so great behavior. Nobody is perfect, and this is not about trying to drag people to God and change their ways. It is just an alternative scene to the bars and clubs on every corner.

What is in all this for God? He is everywhere in this place. You can't come to God's Garage and not think of him at least once. That is good enough for God, he is in it for the long haul and can wait. What is in all this for me? I have not lived an exemplary life, I have fallen into every type of snare and trap that this world sets for those of us that are adventurous. God has delivered me through it all and I want to do something to help others. I want to make a place for music and discussion that is not centered around poor life choices.

This is intended to be a house of God, and everyone is invited. The intended audience here is adult musicians, but we enforce a “PG13” on any content when anyone under 18 is present. In Luke, in the parable of the wedding banquet, the master tells his servants to go to the highways and the byways and bring whoever they might find to fill his house.