This was the scene at Barnes and Noble outside of Greenbrier Mall in Chesapeake, VA, July 20, 2007. This was the day before "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" , the seventh and final book in the series, was released.
The store was to start selling the book at 12:01 a.m. It stayed at full capacity with a massive line outside the door from about 8 that evening. If you walked outside the store, you had to wait in the line. People forgot to eat, went without smoking, even let their car battery die as opposed to going to turn the lights off. Kids had school the next day, adults had work. Nobody cared. We were Harry Potter nuts. We saw people in costume, and there were people in every nook and cranny in that store, sitting on the floor or some even sprawled out reading. It was a blast. The picture at top was taken at about 1:30 a.m. as we left, book 7 in hand.
How amazing would it be if Christians, "Christ nuts", came to events in this fashion? How awesome to have churches at full capacity with lines outside the door, because there were so many Christians dancing eagerly outside the door, desperate to get inside for just a glimpse of what God had to say? Imagine, your pastor jumps up there with his Bible, yelling, "You have GOT to read Luke 24! Dude, I don't wanna spoil it, but he RAISED FROM THE DEAD! Awesome!" Or let's talk about the ultimate love story, superhero powers, eternal life, unfailing love, streets of gold. Imagine, little kids asking for camelskin clothes for their birthday, so they can pretend to be John the Baptist.
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Some of us have just become numb to the amazing things in that classic book. The greatest story ever told. But where is the passion? Okay, I'll be the one to say it:
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DUDE, He's the SAVIOR of the WORLD! SWEEEEEEET!
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