Passionate Grace

The weekend has been an "absolut" chaos in a very crazy way (Pun intended).

I drove down to KL after work on Friday with Jo and Vianz for the long weekend (took Monday off... Yea baby!) for this....

Passion, Kuala Lumpur.
For more information, go here.

The reason I chose to attend this conference/concert was because of its mission statement

"Passion exists to glorify God-uniting students in worship and prayer for spiritual awakening in this generation."

It's a student focus organization, something close to my heart.
I just needed to witness for myself what this conference was all about and how it has been ministering and touching the lives of students all around the world.

It really was something.
I think at the beginning of the concert, everyone was just excited to see Chris Tomlin on stage.
Me too.
I mean, it's Chris Tomlin.
He makes good Christian lyrics along with a fine tune to back it up.
And yes, the crowd went nuts when he stepped on stage.

There I was thinking, there must be something more than all this screaming and yelling.
True enough, there was.
Those who follows Passion would know Mr. Louie Giglio.
He was there and at the end of his sermon (yes, there was a sermon - it's a conference!) he told us a true story about this girl name Ashley.
Read here.

To cut the story short, Ashley was once a big screw-up.
She advertised to rent one of her rooms and along came this "fruit cake" Krista, a good Christian believer.
Through gradual friendship and hardship, Ashley opened her heart to Krista and more significantly to Chris.
She experienced the one thing no other gods could provide;
Grace.
It was on the 14th day after Krista moved in that Ashley decided to lay down her life for Christ.
Three months later, Ashley died in a car crash.
Louie was reading everything from her own hand-written diary.
And the pages after her car crash were blank.

She experienced grace.

I believe Passion powerfully ministered to Kuala Lumpur the Amazing Grace that God has given us in that conference.
A reminder of how Christ reached down to by dying on that cross.
I had goose bumps thinking about Ashley and the whole insane idea of grace.
Crazy.

The weekend was crazy as well due to the people I was with the whole time.

My bunch of "Shaka Laka Boom, Boom! Oh Yea! Oh Yea!".
Hahaha...
Finally met Chris T face to face... She's a nut case in a very funny way of course.
Met up with some STOMPer's, my Nutty family and some other random people along the way.
Upon driving back to Penang, I stopped by Ipoh and met up with my jie jie' Tzyy Ling.
Hehe... My milo maker in Penang.
It was good catching up with her and to see how she was doing.

The chicken backsides!

I managed to curi-curi video this from the conference...
Good stuff, I mean musically.
And yes, Chris Tomlin is reaaaaaally good.