Today I heard our youth pastor playing what he called old school music (Kieth Green) which he said was very powerful. After speaking with him I was reminded of my first exposure to his music, in 1977 I was hanging out in Hollywood with a girlfriend and another couple, we were doing the usual partying on a Friday night getting high doing our thing; when we decided to go to the Record Store and check out the music, as I'm walking down the aisles I see an album cover with this cool looking dude holding up his finger with what look like the number one sign, it caught my attention because it was different from most of the covers back then: but what struck me was the title of the album "For Him Who Has Ears To Hear" I remember thinking to myself as I read the cover "I got ears to hear, what you got to say?'
When I picked up the album and seen the back cover I was sold! Because I liked the ideal that he had a women with him and they were doing the sign of the cross each holding their finger over the other to shape a cross. Back then I thought that was cool that a man & women were together and doing the God thing.
My friend Eddie at the time asked me "What the 8&@#$%!!!!! you buying that for?" At the time I didn't care what he thought about it, I bought the album and I remember going home that night wasted as can be by the time we got home and playing the album the rest of the night.
I would play that album like crazy and God used it to speak to me so many times; even when I would be loaded and out of my mind and brought a sense of God to my life.
That album was so powerful that I still remember one time my brothers Ernie & Raul asking me to play that album where that dude would sing about God. The album God used to sow seed in my heart and I am sure to water what he had placed in my heart.
Kieth Green was a pioneer that God used in music to touch a lot of us that were living a crazy life! His music was out of the box and reached beyond the four walls of church at least for me.
I didn't realize back then that God was calling me, I had heard the gospel because of a girlfriend who took me to a little coffee house where would preach and talk about how heavy God was, they would play Jesus rock and jam. That little place was a unique place back in the mid 70' as we would sit on the floor, some on bean bags, other siting on the floor as we would gather and hear Jesus stories. That place the Solid Rock was unique to me because I didn't like church and all the religious stuff because it didn't make sense and there at the Rock you could let your hair down, kick back and just let God speak as we would hear things I had never heard before...
God used Kieth Green to speak to me through his music.... Thank God for the 60' and 70's and the music that spoke about Jesus... My prayer today is that God would give us "Ears To Hear Again" and music that still speaks about and leads us to Jesus!
What ya doing buying that music!!!!!!!!!!
What ya doing buying that music!!!!!!!!!!
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