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Name: Daniel
Birthday: 12/26/1984
Interests: Classic Film, Music, Beverages with Friends, Discussing the Trinity and other great mysterious ideas. Reading, The Great Outdoors.
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2/24/2006
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| Bono V. 1.0For awhile I've been putting of writing a blog about Bono. I will write one later. I just wanted to say that tonight, like every single time I hear the song Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own I cried like a little baby. Now, before you judge me just listen to the freakin song... and do the song justice... listen to it with context. | | |
| I've been thinking a lot about what my role as a Christian should be. Mainly because I have been listening to some albums that just abuse Christians left and right. Songs about Priests getting young girls pregnant and wanting them to abort their child, Priests practicing closet homosexuallity... etc.. etc.. It isn't that these songs upset me because they are picking on Christians, but rather that this stuff happens all the time. Christians say that one should live their life like Christ, condemn sin and point out wrong doing, but then turn around and live a life that's just unbecoming of Christ. When we hear of some Priest molesting a boy. Or some radical Christian murdering homosexuals, we all say, "That 'Christian' is not like us." But, gosh man! That is us! We are supposed to be the witness of Jesus Christ! We are supposed to be evidence of the Holy Spirit working on earth! When I read Romans 2, I get so overwhelmed.... I once read an interview of Ghandi where he said, "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." When I think of other religions it seems like they are completely compelled to do whatever it takes. There is nothing keeping them from their mission for Eternity. We as Christians think that we can be hedonistic idol worshipers because we have saved by Grace. Sodom is not going to hell because of sin, but America is going to hell because of Christians. | | |
| If a job is worth doing... I have been thinking a lot of my work ethic, and honestly it never occured to me that my actual work ethic would effect the way that I work. Sounds silly, but often times the only way I knew how to work was to turn myself off and work as a complete zombie. I didn't get into any trouble, I didn't get upset and time would past before I knew. Lately I've discovered that this is the wrong mentality to have, I should rather, take pride in my work. When I was younger I did a lot of work around the house. Vacuuming, dusting, mowing and edging lawns, washing the family cars etc... I had/have very picky parents, if there was something wrong with what I did I had to either a, fix the mistake or redo it. It made me so upset sometimes because all I wanted to do at that point was put my energy into something else, like watching television or playing the computer. Although I was very upset with the premise of spending more time on a job of fixing all the nitty gritty details my parents were instilling in me the pride of doing a job correctly. Now, that I am sort of older and these things have sunk in I am willing to devote more work to my tasks... and those that I thought were waaaaaay to into their job I now think of them as heroes in a sense. I should get yelled at for leaving my shoes on top of the counter at a restaraunt, I should remember to stab my tickets etc.... I guess this one was for you MJ. | | |
| still searchingI was days away from becoming Chrismated as an Orthodox Christian. Everything was looking up and I had the strongest feeling of inner peace. But I found this Summer that the underlying problem with Orthodoxy was still on my mind or rather, the underlying problem with United States society was still on my mind. Going to Oakland and watching my brother get beat up by a gang of black High schoolers, anxiously going to his aid, but finding there was no way to help him woke me up to decisions that I was making in my life. For the longest time I have had nothing but a critical atitude towards the Evangelical Church. I had a great stigma for my upbringing, but my mind has changed. I know believe in a skewed society looking for love can only have a hope in a church that tries to communicate with them.
To back up, I loved the Orthodox Church. Liturgy, Sacraments and the sacred way in which they held tradition truly fed my scarred, undernurished soul. But the problem that I find in United States society was not properly dealt with by the Orthodox church. To someone tainted by society the Orthodox Church would not appeal to him. In many ways it would turn him away from truth because it is so foreign to him. Not to say that the Orthodox Church is not truth. But just in the same way that Dante needed a guide in Virgil to get to Beatrice, who then brought him to the Eternal Blessedness, modern man needs the Evangelical Church to bring him to a saving grace in Jesus Christ who in return leads him to perfect bliss in God the Father. This is to say that if I am an even able to become similiar in some ways to Virgil I would be perfectly happy at this point.
I have heard often by Othodox Priests, "The Orthodox Church knows where the Holy Spirit is just not where He isn't." That is to say that through Sacramental worship they take part in the gifts of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit daily. But that isn't to say that Greg Laurie's ministry is not touched by the Holy Spirit. In the same way Sacramental worship is not only esteemed in seven or eight ways but in an infinite amount of ways. Worship is also found in giving a Homeless man food or helping a drunk girl at a Belle and Sebastian concert. =)
So in conclusion I am less critical towards my upbringing and look forward to a ministry in which I am an active tool used by the Holy Spirit.
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