Two Irish Catholics

So I invited a friend of mine, who happens to be an Irish Catholic, to hear Mark Driscoll on "Burn Your Plastic Jesus" last night (having no idea of that part of Mark's history!). When Mark began telling the story of how he became a Christian it was so appropriate it was spooky.

By about song number three my friend was a little over having to stand up and sing and said, good naturedly, "I hope this guy is going to talk for more than ten minutes", which he certainly then did! Other people have written about the rest of the evening (and a few thousand more probably will :) ) - you can read Craig's run down here. I really enjoyed it, and my friend did too. It continued to be so superbly apt. I continue praying like crazy!

(The one downer is that before the event someone stole my phone and went through my wallet in the cafe we were in. Looking back I know who it was (not personally, just which person in the cafe did it) and how they pulled it off - and I am flabbergasted. But if you are going to get robbed, it's good for it to happen when you are off with a friend to hear the gospel. It keeps it all in perspective. That and I visited Port Arthur the other weekend - now there is something really terrible that happened one day in a cafe.)