Evangelist Luis Palau points music, sports heavenward
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–Some of the most raucous nightclubs in Nashville, Tenn., can be found in four city blocks along the Cumberland River, but those streets were home of another kind of party during the May 19-20 weekend -– a celebration of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
More than 90,000 people crowded into the streets surrounding Nashville’s Riverfront Park for the Luis Palau Festival featuring music, extreme sports and the simple presentation of the Gospel by international evangelist Luis Palau.
More than 100 of the 300-plus Middle Tennessee churches that helped sponsor the festival were Baptist, event organizers said.
“The point of this festival is not the music and the sports or anything else; it is to get all of you ready to go to heaven when God calls you,” Palau said on Sunday evening.
Palau, speaking from the event’s main stage, began his message by talking about award-winning musician Jeremy Camp’s wife, who passed away just a few months into their marriage. Using that story to contemplate heaven, Palau clearly and deliberately shared the Gospel message, telling the festival-goers that they could never earn God’s approval on their own.
“You see, none of us would get into heaven -– not the nicest grandma or mom or dad -– if it wasn’t for the blood of Jesus that he gave on the cross 2,000 years ago,” Palau said.
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