I remember seeing this cover on the front of Time Magazine in June 1971 and thinking, God is doing something in our generation. It really was exciting times. These were the days of Christian outreach cafes and Christian rock concerts. Today we’d refer to this kind of stuff as “Emerging Church”

You may recall an article I posted in October 2007 about my past life as a singer with the Living Stones in the 60s and 70s. This was an interesting rock band because we were among he first Christian Rock musicians in Scotland. Here’s the title track from an album we released in the early 70s entitled  “Jesus Music” The song was written by Jimmy Sommerville our bass player. the recording was poor it was one of the first albums released under the GRF banner . A few years later Greenbelt Festival was established and we had the joy of playing at that first Greenbelt. i think there was around 4000 people attended.

We were not the first but we were among a number of young Christians trying to engage with the 60s revolution. This all came back to my memory today because I received an email from Arthur Blessitt highlighting a movie that is going to be doing the rounds in the States in the near future all about his life. We were really quite a busy band playing all over the show, we even played with Arthur Blessitt at the famous Greene’s Playhouse in Glasgow. I’m sure there must have been well over 2000 people in attendance that day

THE CROSS

He is quite an amazing servant of God. His ministry has revolved around literally carry the cross all over the world for the past 40 years. I wish his movie about his live much success. I planned to meet up with Arthur in india last year. Unfortunately his plane was flying into Chennai while my plane was leaving the runway. Well maybe one day we’ll meet up again.