The sound of silence, some call defeaning others call it delighting.
The sound of silence, creates fear in some and peace in others.
The sound of silence, is a burden to one and a gift to another.
Spending nine hours in worship and the word with a stadium full of people, is an experience that is hard to describe. The Send marked me in a way only The Send could. But then this morning as a I walked the dog in the Sunday morning silence on streets that were empty, it was another marking I could not deny.

The Send was a day full of two sounds, one was the sound of humanity speaking, singing, shouting; the other sound was that of instruments of many kinds playing, hands clapping, and feet moving. Both sounds were symphonic in nature as we worshipped all day and into the night with names we knew and had never heard of; all to the One Name who is worthy of it all. From Martin Smith of Delirious to Cody Carnes and Kari Jobe; Michael W. Smith and Darlene Zschech; Jesus Image and Stephanie Gretzinger; a Brazilian worship team and Circuit Riders. From one leader to the other the song of praise, the cry of holy, holy, holy, rose throughout the day like a river. It was powerful, it was all about the One who sits on the throne, it was about Jesus!

Psalm 19 tells us all of creation declares the glory of God, so even when the sound of humanity is not being heard, the sound of creation is. We may think there is a certain number of people who have never heard the gospel, but that is just not true. Creation communicates Jesus is Lord all the time, everywhere, but we must be silent to hear it. There is a lot of people who may not have heard another human say the name of Jesus, but they have heard creation say it. God does not only use the voice of people to speak the name of Jesus, He uses everything He created to speak His name.

The symphony of sound between creation and humanity reveals the majesty of God. It is no wonder it says, “His voice is like the sound of many rushing waters.” With one voice we declared, Here Am I, Send Me at The Send. It was powerful, it was memorable, it was insightful to hear how God has been changing the body of Christ in ways we cannot know unless we go to a gathering like The Send. Jesus is still the only head of the Church and He is maturing His Bride in ways I did not know until yesterday. We are living in amazing times and we can truly say, we were born for such a time as this.