Larry Norman Message Board

I first heard a few of Larry's songs sung by Judy McKenzie & David Cook at a Gospel Festival in '72 or '73 in Belgium and was amazed and blessed by these songs. A bit later I heard all his albums, saw him perform in Lenzburg, Switzerland in '75 and the piece 'The Tune' kept my thoughts occupied for a whole week. I saw him some years later in Berlin and then at a Greenbelt festival in England. He had a great influence on me and many others in Germany, where I grew up and was in Christian Music bands from '72 onwards. I experienced him as a very committed person with a very prophetic service to our generation and time (and saw that he had his struggles and problems too).

Through the years I've sung and performed some of his songs myself on many occasions in Germany and here in India where I work and live since many years. We've also performed 'The Tune' here in India as a simple choreography with young people of our church.

I still love to hear his music and I'm looking forward to thank him personally for 'visiting this planet' and for performing on Jesus' behalf for folks like me and showing us the way, that Jesus had prepared so long ago, in a contemporary way and style.

I read only yesterday that he had died and was very sad then. But after reading how he has touched and blessed so many others too I concluded that he's really at home now and that's wonderful!

I'm looking forward to that eternity when we'll be singing and playing together with so many others for Jesus(!) and I believe then we will see that Keith Green was right when he said "compared to that, living in this world is like living in a garbage can".

Jürgen Eisenberg, Lucknow, India