Panpipe Worship!!

What's up everyone? Yesterday morning (9/9/11) I was heading home from handling business in the city (Manhattan for our non-NYC friends) and I was introduced to something that surprised me. While transferring from the 6 train to the E line I heard worship music being played on the pan pipe. Did you read that correctly? YES! The pan pipe.

Ok ok, let me explain. As I was walking down from the 6 train I heard, "you took the fall, and thought of me, above all." Now, I figured that the music was similar, and God was placing that song on my heart, but as I got closer it went back to the top of the chorus. "Crucified, you laid behind the stone, for me you died, rejected and alone, like a rose trampled on the ground, you took the fall and thought of me, above all." When I realized what I was hearing I got excited because it was different yet you heard the worship come from it AND it's an absolute favorite of mine. He was playing for real, he wasn't playing it because he wanted too, but he was playing to share the message that the song represents.

We usually see pan pipe players in Union Square or at 34th Street Herald Square dressed in their native garb playing music from their country, which is usually of either Central or South American origin. When I hear them I really don't pay attention to them and what they're doing, but rather continue to go about my business. I don't expect what I heard.

After "Above All" the person playing whose name I don't know, started playing "Agnus Dei," and I thought to myself, "he's bringing down the glory, pan pipe for Jesus."

It's great to see people using other ways and methods to share the greatness that is Jesus Christ. God is awesome! Next time you hear something out of the ordinary in the street or on the subway, it maybe someone proclaiming Jesus, in a way we're not used too, in a way that's unplugged.

...Unplug the Gospel...
Terrence