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Reviewed by Mike Rimmer
Picking up where the original Sonicflood left off, Acquire The Fire has taken rock n’ roll worship as their own. The first track “Lift” does a good job at introducing the listener to the worship experience, with a heavy dose of guitars. This is one of only a few original compositions made for this disc, but the Vineyard songs are well picked, as is Tim Hughes’ “Here I Am To Worship” and Mercy Me’s “I Can Only Imagine”. Once again, Acquire The Fire make a decent collection of worship songs aimed at rock n’ roll worshippers. That is the benefit and drawback of this CD. While it is well played, and the arrangements are well presented, it lacks immediacy of worship and approachability. “I Can Only Imagine” has become a standard cover that is used too often. While it may be sincerely used in the Acquire The Fire events across the US, it seems like it was added so people would buy the CD. One of the pleasant surprises on the disc was the e
and then b shift is after lunch till, like, 10:00 at night. dave hasz pulled all of the graduate interns together to have a meeting because there weren t enough calls being made in global expeditions to get teens out on the mission s field. so we re moving all of the manpower to ge. that s like that in all the call centers. the acquire the fire, the honor academy center and the ge call center. that s all they care about. they tell you if you re not meeting your goals, you re not praying enough, not being spiritual enough, you know, you re not working at this hard enough because you re not reaching this goal. my year was september 11th, and we had a huge mass exodus of kids, you know, that were in global expeditions, they were going to go on mission trips that summer and just completely backed out. and they did this whole, we re in a war, this is wartime. what? which means that we were working overtime. so we were given new schedules, completely new schedules.
i didn t really know what god was. i was just going to church as more of a social thing at the time. i didn t really care about my relationship with the lord. but once i experienced it, it was like a drug, i was hooked. it was amazing. it definitely was life changing. let me hear your battle cry tonight! whoever speaks up most gets to shape the culture. i m looking at a whole army of young people who want to speak out! the acquire the fire event is 27 hours. it starts friday, all day saturday, saturday night. it s a weekend event where you kind of get detoxed from all the messaging that s crammed down your throat, with all of the media that most kids are watching and, you know, submerged in, and extract them away from that long enough and give them a chance to hear the message of the bible in a way that s culturally relevant to them.