The Glory of Chance

My Life Lately: Sharing the Stage with Lincoln Brewster

May 1st Lincoln Brewster played for “Illume,” a local church driven national day of prayer event that took place in Castle Rock. Three friends came with me, Ronnie, Gina, and Leigh on the forty minute trek to Castle Rock. We got there quite early and quite bored when we ran into a friend from the Mill. He was sporting an “Illume” T-shirt and told us they were giving out shirts beside the stage. Ronnie and Leigh were curious so they went to investigate and right before the concert started Ronnie hands me one of the shirts. Not really thinking about it I put it on. Lincoln was amazing both on guitar and as a worship leader. Toward the end he gave an invitation for people to accept Christ (about a hundred people raised there hands), and he encouraged the new believers to get with a “leader” and connect with a church. He started to describe the brown light-bulb shirts the leaders where wearing. He was at a lost to describe the shirts so he started to look around for someone he could bring on stage to model the shirts and he sees me. Of course, I am wearing the shirt and standing right in front of him. He asked me my name and had me come up on stage as an example of what a leader looked like. For about 30 seconds I shared a stage with Lincoln Brewster as told the new believers to go to people with the brown shirts like the one I was wearing. My friends have digital cameras for appendages and had been taking pictures all night, but somehow just didn’t even think to take a picture while I was on stage. What friends I have. I can’t help but think there was one person there who had a master list of all the leaders and looked at me on stage and thought to themselves “who is that person and how did they get a shirt.”