The basilica in our region is celebrating its 50th anniversary of their new cathedral this week. It’s awesome, because there are massive crowds of people everywhere. So we were able to do a couple open airs outside the cathedral, we did 2 dramas. And then we shared testimonies, and the gospel. It was really good, people were really interested in what we had to say, and I think things really stuck with some of them.
Also, since it’s the anniversary, there’s a ton of Aztec worship that went on at the basilica. They had dancers and drums, and pretty much the whole thing was really just worshipping death (the Mexican culture right now is totally full of death, they even have a day called Sante Morte… the Day of the Dea). It really reminded all of us on the team of the story of when Jesus goes into the temple, and throws over all the tables, because it’s a holy place, and people aren’t respecting it as that. The Catholic religion in Mexico is super weird, because the first Europeans that came over wanted to make it appealing to the Aztecs, so they changed the names of saints, and added in a bunch of Aztec beliefs so that the people would accept it, and all that stuff is still believed today.
Later on, we died in the Metro… it was awesome. Pretty much we just all at the same time dropped dead on the train, and then one of us would get up and give a testimony and present the gospel to the people on the train. It’s great, because the people have no where to go, so they are kinda forced to hear the gospel. It was really cool, I don’t know the exact number, but about 5 people gave their lives to God because of it.
In the evening we went and hung out with a bunch of the skaters that always hang out at the market by our church. Eventually we ended up going over to a basketball court, and played basketball for a while. It was a ton of fun, we haven’t really played a ton of basketball since we were here, and it was a lot of fun to be able to again.
I didn't know Cathedrals were built fifty years ago. Does it have an organ? I'm studying music history right now and the church used to have the monopoly on music pretty much. Kind of interesting. Maybe not. Anyway...
ReplyDeleteSo did you do some table tossing and shake your finger at them for worshiping death? That would be dramatic.
Just curious: when people become Christians, do you give them a Bible or something?
The original one is falling over... like literally, its tipping sideways, Google Mexico Basilica, it's super weird looking. But anyways, because of that they build a newer, bigger cathedral 50 years ago, and that's the one that they're celebrating the anniversary of. And yah, it has a huge organ, it's kinda awesome sounding.
ReplyDeleteWhen people become a Christian we usually don't have bibles around to give to them, but we always get their contact info stuff so that we can follow up with them, and we always give them the name of at least one church so that they have somewhere to get connected into a church.