Homework 1

Evan Apon spent his Christmas break in Atlanta, Georgia hanging out with his family.  He is one of nine children and has four brothers and four sisters.  While he was on break he also went to Passion Conference.  This was a three-day conference in Atlanta that had different speakers every day.  Some of the speakers included: Francis Chan, John Piper, and Chris Tomlin. 

            Francis Chan was Evan’s favorite speaker, because he seemed to be the most genuine of the speakers.  There were about 25,000 people at the conference, and some of the speakers seemed to be bothered by the crowd so their talks came off more like performances than heart felt wisdom.  Chan, however, did not seem to be phased by the crowd and he gave a powerful talk about prayer.

            Evan was really moved by Chan’s thoughts on prayer.  The main point of Chan’s speech was the dilution of the importance of prayer in modern day society.  He challenged the crowd with showing them the difference of how prayer was seen in the Old Testament versus modern day.  In the Old Testament it was considered a high honor for the priests to go before the Holy God and intercede on behalf of the people but now that Jesus has come to intercede for all mankind, people overlook the honor that it is to go directly to God, and often times pastors have to beg the members of their youth groups to pray.  This conference made for a great break.