On the third day the women came to the tomb expecting a body and a sealed stone. They were already asking each other who would move it. It was very large.
They never had to touch it. He rolled it.
That is the whole weekend in one line. Every man came to the camp with a stone he had been shoving at for years. Some had given up shoving. And every man learned the same thing the women learned: the stone was never yours to move.
“And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it.”
The song has grit to it. Deep, hard beats. It is not a soft song, and it was not a soft weekend. The men worked. They stayed open when it would have been easier to close up. And Christ moved on their hearts.
The song page will hold the lyrics once we have permission to post them. Until then, the video above is the real thing.
The Banner
The Path,
The Cross,
The Stone
The banner that hung over #108 tells the whole story without a word. A rough stone path climbs the hill. The cross stands at the top in a burst of light that swallows the sky. And the great rock, the one that was very large, sits off to the side. Rolled. Out of the way.
Every man on the walk climbed that path. Nobody climbed it alone.
Walk-Up Anthem
Warriors
Of Christ
When the Weekend Lay Director walked up to give his talk, the room got a song it was not expecting. Cinematic, cold, and loud: “God Had To Break Me First.”
It set the tone for #108. Not soft men. Weathered men, on their knees before the cross, looking up.
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