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I watched a short documentary about a man named Rich Mullins a couple of days ago. I'm still thinking about it.
Here's a very small sampling of his music (he isn't the one singing the last song--he wrote it and it was recorded after he died in a car accident).
Hold Me Jesus
Creed
Step By Step
My Deliverer Is Coming
It isn't that I put him on a pedestal; I don't. I don't idealize him or make a hero of him. I appreciate his reality, though, his trueness, his honesty, his heart. I want to want Jesus like that. I want to love people like that.
I wish I could have met you, Rich Mullins.
Perhaps I will one day.
Thank you for pointing up.
I also have appreciated those things about Rich Mullins. There's a video recording of his last concert on YouTube which I thought was interesting to watch. (Here's a link to the one I'm talking about if you want to watch it - it's divided up into many videos because the whole thing is at least an hour, I think. http://youtu.be/7qszqI7wUXM)
ReplyDeleteI'll have to check that out sometime. Thanks. :)
DeleteI don't think I've seen the documentary you watched. What was it called?
ReplyDeleteCoincidentally (or not...), the documentary is called Homeless Man. It's on Youtube, too. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bajoUcmPrgU
Delete"My Deliverer" was one of the few songs I enjoyed hearing on WCII when I was an almost twenty-something. Rich Mullins was in the car accident when I was in college, and we came into chapel to find his face plastered on the overhead screen and his voice filling the space. The worship leader at the time (Jake Jacobson's son) admired him greatly, which is how I initially heard of him.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the documentary link. I had forgotten about him, and he seems to share the same deep, raw love of Jesus that Keith Green lived.
Keith Green came to my mind almost immediately, as well. He and Rich Mullins make quite a pair. The vitality of their faith, the honesty of it, and the sudden deaths that they had in common are so striking to me.
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