Well not sure who reads xanga anymore. But if you do, just wondering if you were interested in checking out a Sunday school class that will be held at the church I go to. The flyer is posted below.

On another note, I was just thinking about the possibility of the bible and God not being real. I just wanted to say, that the scariest things in this world I can think of, is 1) God not existing and 2) God existing.

I think its kind of sad that either way, life is pretty scary when you're not sure of things. The reason I think God is scary, is because I realize how I sin quite often and use his name in vain. The other thing I find completely absurd is that I think I can sometimes impress God. For those reasons, I find God quite scary.

A moment made for worshipping by Steven Curtis Chapman. is one of my favorite songs. You can check it out at this link. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Van2daajLvg

But anyways I think it really reminded me of the heart of christianity. The bible, Jesus Christ, God, and everything is all done for one reason. And that reason is life! Jesus Christ came to die that he may give life. We are to die that we are to live. We can live every moment in this life to the fullest because of the next.

It is true, we can never give anything God. When we think we are giving to God, we are in actuallity giving to ourselves. I'm not really good at worshipping in a narrow sense. I don't jump up and down during praise songs, nor do I wave my hands or put my hand over my heart. But if there is one thing I can offer as an act of worship to God, it is to live! To worship God to the fullest, is to recieve, and to live life to the fullest. To experience joy in the highs and the lows.

Just wanted to share a thought. I am a christian, because I want to live, and that is something God put into each and eveyone of us.

Humility is by far one of my favorite virtues and characteristics of a christian. Quite often we can get confused between pride and defending what we believe in, and often there is a very thin line.

That is why you must ask yourself, "Why are you offended, if your only goal is to please Christ?"

Who are we fighting for?

One of the things Jesus came to do was to rid the Israelites worship of their religious customs, traditions, legalism, and all the other filth that made worship impure. One of the stories in the bible that comes to mind when I think of this, is when a couple of Pharisee’s tried to trick Jesus into breaking the law when they asked him if it was lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not. And Jesus responded Luke 20:25  render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

As a Christian it really drives me insane when I listen to Christian radio stations where they constantly promote republicanism. (And these Christian republicans really drive me crazy when they go on and on trying to somehow relate the bible to our right to bear arms.) To me, this is the same kind of the thing as people who make a big deal over creationism. Today you find most of the current events relating to Christianity has to do with being republican, being a patriot, God bless America, politics, creationism, not watching rated R movies and so forth.

One of the problems of Christianity today, is that it often oversteps its boundaries, which is why we have the separation of the church and state. Christianity is meant to be pure. And that is what Jesus is saying when he tells the Pharisee’s off. As for me personally, politically I am a pro-torturing, anti-abortion, environmentalist democrat. I also really do not think God has a favorite political party nor does he have a favorite country. My point is that a lot of things are really not essential to the faith as people make it to be. Of course there are some things that are concrete in the bible such as preciousness of life, God’s purpose for man to be with woman in a monogamous relationship, social justice and so forth. But as far as these other things, they are far more relevant to Christian culture rather than Christ, and that is something I think that can put people in a closer position to the Pharisees.

One last example, is the Christianity vs. Science. Is it evolution or creationism? My personal opinion is that when it comes to science, you should let good science be the standard. Heck, God created science, and as Christians we can believe in both. But as a Christian, it is not essential that we believe in creationism or stress out about it, just as it is not essential for the earth to be the center of the universe and have everything orbit around it. All that is essential as a Christian, is that we worship God purely. As for the rest, just give to Caesar’s what is his, and let us continue to do the things that really matter. As Christians there are many things to fight for, but we must pick and choose our battles wisely.