It is time to clear up some messy business.  First, I fear this site has become exactly what I was not intending for it to become, a place where people air personal grievences on the information super-highway.  In reality a phone call or sit-down meeting would be more productive, beneficial and much more edifying for the body of Christ as a whole.

If anyone has anything personal, or private to discuss with me, my number hasn't changed, my office is still in the same place and if worse comes to worse, Valley is not that overly large. With that being said...

When I stated I didn't know anything about anything, I was referring to the grand realm of all knowledge.  If anyone would have bothered to actually look up the reference I made to the words of Agur in Proverbs 30 and read the entire chapter, thus giving context to the verse citation, you would see what I meant by expressing my lack of knowledge. 

Make no mistake, I love knowledge, I am an information junky, I crave it. What I hunger and thirst after most is the knowledge about God and His Word.  I stand speecheless everyday before an amazing Creator who knows the end from the beginning, who set the earth in motion, and loved me enough to die for me and guarantee's me a place with Him someday.  How incredible is that.  When I begin to think on the majesty, righteousness, love, patience, mercy and grace of God, I am truly overwhelmed.  This is what pushes me to make the statement that, in relationship to all the knowledge of our omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscent God, I truly am stupid.

When given the opportunity to have anything he wanted, Solomon asked for wisdom.  When I pray everyday I ask for two things, wisdom and grace.  Wisdom to know what to say, do, preach, council, love, be a good husband, youth pastor, son, brother, friend you name it, and the grace to see those things through.

Partly, some who have written are right, I need to be a model of knowledge, love, compassion, and wisdom for my students, but at the same time, I desire to be a model of humility and work still increidibly in the process.  Paul, says it best in Phillipians 3:12 when he says, I'm not there yet, "Not that I have already attained or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me" Amen, Amen.

If this is Paul saying these things, where do I measure up?  Not close...

In closing, I just want to say that I am far from ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.  It is only in Christ that I find my being, only in Christ that I find my purpose, only in Christ that I find my life, love, everything, aside from this all else is what?...rubbish.   Anyone who knows me knows that I proclaim that truth on the mountain tops, in the valleys, when the sun is shining and when their is pain in the offering.  What else can I do? 

In the end, I am not a perfect man, I’m not a perfect youth minister, I’m not a perfect anything, except sinner.  All I am or ever claim to be is a guy who was called by God to an impossible task, a task that is far above my ability.  I am overwhelmed everyday by the work that is set before me, and ask God everyday to give me the wisdom and grace to see the task through.

P.S.

As far as the 7 day literal creation argument, the Hebrew word is "yowm", coming from an unused root word meaning, "to be hot" and an refer to sunrise to sunset, or to a space of time defined by an associated term, just so you know.  If we believe to the utmost, as a matter of most importance that the earth was created in 7 literal days then dosen't that limit God? Dosen't it limit God to say that it had to be 7 24 hour days, instead of whatever He wanted.  Again, I don't want to get bogged down here, just a thought.