Saw Kirk Cameron in person

On Sunday morning, I had the chance to hear & see Kirk Cameron speak in person at a local church in this area. And can I just say that it exceeded my expectations.

Honestly, I was a little bit star struck & giddy at the thought of actually getting the chance to see Kirk in person. The teen dream man whose picture I had plastered on my wall back in Jr. High & High School. Oh I had such a crush on him, like every other girl my age. So to think that i would get to see him up close & personal, just put a permanent smile on my face as soon as I heard he was going to be in town & the whole drive in to the church. :D I was all giddy inside. I knew that Kirk was a Christian and was ON FIRE for Christ and that excited me even more. My Jr.High heartthrob was a follower of Christ... who could ask for better?? Well.....

We entered the church and I wanted to find THE BEST and closest seat I could find, but with no surprise all the seats on the floor were already full or taken. So we moved to the 2nd level and I found the perfect seat overlooking the stage, but just enough in front that I could still see his face. AWWW this will be GREAT and my friend and I took our seats! Worship began shortly after. This church had at least a 100 voice choir... they were GREAT!! :D After worship, the pastor introduced Kirk to the congregation... and there before me he stood. As handsome as I remember, but yet there wasn't any pride coming off of him as I remember seeing in that photo I looked at every night so many years ago. There was gentleness and humility in place of it now.
He was different. I was in awe.

He introduced himself and said that there was one thing that he MUST do before he began. He said that in the first 5 min. nobody hears a word he has to say because we all have that goofy grin on our faces & are starstruck because Kirk Cameron or Mike Sever - the character he played on "Growing Pains", was all we saw before us. Sooo to get us over that goofy starstruckness he said he would get the Mike Sever out & dealt with so we could move on. He asked us to start singing the "Growing Pains" theme song. So with encouragement from him, the congregation began to sing... "Show me that smile again...." and he took off his jacket, popped up his collar, spun around and went into his Mike Sever voice. He started acting out lines & scenes from the tv show. It was Great... there in front of us emerged that teenage boy Mike Sever. It was so funny. In 5 minutes he had done a montage of the entire show...it was great. The whole place was laughing and loving that he was doing this for us. He finished, put on his coat and said now that that is out of the way, lets talk about the real reason we are here, Christ. He was right, the goofy grins were gone and we were ready to listen.

He shared his testimony, which i will not go into, but you can check it out here! And shared with us how his life was transformed from atheist to follower of Christ. It's an amazing story yall! He then went into his teaching/speech... He was saying that our nation is in major trouble, because we (as a nation) have turned from God. We have slowly begun to cut God out of control of this nation. He said, look at the history of Israel in the bible - we can compare what happened there & see if we recognize what is going on in America today. The bible says, that the Lord said if they, Israel, followed Him that He would bless them. But if they did not follow Him, that He would take those blessings away from them and bring destruction, plagues, floods, diseases etc.. SOUND FAMILIAR???

Kirk went on to say that with the elections coming up that this is a very important time for us Christians, because we need to really pay attention to who these men are & what they stand for - because WE (as a nation) don't need to help move God out any longer. Kirk made a good point, he said.... We have Govt. officials/politicians who get on the podium and profess that they love/follow God, but yet they stand for & support things that are un-biblical and completely against God. Something isn't right there!!

He said, that we (as Christians & nation) don't want to blame ourselves for anything that is going wrong/bad in the world.. we want to blame things on global warming/cooling, El'neno or other worldly things as an excuse.... but yet we as Christians are not standing up and doing what we should as Christians. We act as if we have the fire insurance, but we aren't living for Christ in our daily lives & are just going on as worldly people. We aren't helping lead this nation to Christ! We are like the harlot... we get satisfaction from other things & not from God and faith. We worry only about ourselves, going along with the majority, not offending anyone, we go on believing the media over God's word & God's standards for our lives. Tis true!!

He continued on with WHY we need Christ. Basically for a church definition an alter call, but this wasn't any ordinary alter call. He told us we need Christ and asked us 4 questions....
1) Have you EVER in your life, told a lie?
2) Have you EVER in your life, stolen anything?
3) Have you EVER in your life, used or said the Lord's name in vain?
4) Have you EVER in your life, committed adultery?

He explained as follows...
1) Ever lied..... yes, we all have - Then We Are a Liar!
2) Ever stole... yes, we all have - Then We Are a Thief!
3) Ever used God's name in vain... yes, we all have - Then We Are a Blasphemer!
4) Ever committed adultery.... **the room fell still & quiet**
Bible says in Matthew 5:27-30, that if anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery in your heart. Ouch! - yes, we all have - Then We Are Adulterers!

- so we are lying thief blaspheming adulterer at heart! Double ouch! The bible says that we are to follow the 10 commandments & will be judged by that... by this we have broken 4 of the 10 and still have 6 more pointing at us. Without the blood of Christ, without Christ in our life, we will go to hell. THE REASON FOR CHRIST! We can't get to heaven on our own terms, we can't get to heaven by our good deed or because we are a good person. We can ONLY get to Heaven through Christ in our lives. He paid the bail $$ with his life, to get us & keep us out of hell!

I PRAY that the Lord touches someone today with Kirk's message. It woke me up & put a fire back within me for the Lord. It convicted me, that I just go along in my day to day life, worrying about the wrong things. My goal as a Christian is to tell others about Christ!
I know this is a long post, but PLEASE check out this video of Kirk... it'll sum up more of what was said in this post. Don't go another day without Christ in your life!

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=aa6e02c990b0a82652dc
I can't get the video to attach - so you'll have to click on this link... sorry! :(

In Christ,
GROOVEWOMAN