21 mars 2006

Jerusalem ~30~

'CELEBRATING THIRTY YEARS OF JERUSALEM.

Back to the first love, back to the roots, back to the compassion, back to the things we once walked in, back to the purpose, back to the fire we once had.
Back to the simplicity you have to hurry back.

Well, thirty years is a long time...

When I started Jerusalem I wanted the world to know, I wanted people to know about him.
I was saved, I had tasted God, I could never give my time and life to a life of religious duties, of church rules, dictated by man. I found Jesus. Jesus is not religion. Religion hurts us, but he never will.
When we started it was a calling, not just a fun thing to do, but a calling.

We started in a basement of the Mission church in Savedalen outside Gothenburg. And we made the janitor crazy. He couldn’t understand.
And then we went all over Sweden, Scandinavia, and Europe, and then we came to America.
We did MTV, tours, festivals, we were offered record deals, we negotiated, did videos etc. etc… Played TV shows, Wembley, Greenbelt, BBC, in Europe, America and other nations as well, even had a number one hit on the charts. Jerusalem was not only a name inside the church world but also outside, actually in almost every continent, even far down in South Africa.

They said we were from the devil and they said we were godly, they called us devil worshippers and Jesus followers, we’ve heard both. Nothing of it made us stop.
This celebration is for this…to go back, to your first love…Jesus.'

Uffe - en aning förkortat
För fullständig information: http://www.jerusalem.se/

13 mars 2006

sylt

Gör mp3-skivor till bilen. Så fort jag gör nåt liknande tar jag alldeles för stort allvar på saken i fråga, som om hela mitt liv hängde på det. Och vem vet, kanske gör det just det. Men vad tusan? Vem skulle då orkar bry sej liksom? Hur som helst. När jag väl sitter där i bilen och lyssnar på skivan så tänker jag nog inte mycket på om en viss låt saknas eller om det är nån för mycket. Den överflödiga kan jag ju lätt hoppa över om så önskas. Likväl sitter jag i veckor och kan aldrig bestämma mej vilka låtar som ska vara med.

Och sen har vi då det så kallade livet. Jag håller på att kvävas innifrån. Jag behöver lite frisk luft. Ge mej sylt.

Rhodos.