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| So i haven't updated this thing in quite a while.
Does anyone even use xanga anymore?
all the emo kids went to myspace. thats killer for business. dang.
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| Don't say goodbye like they're burying me, because the world is round and I might return someday.
but you say "If he loves me, then why does he leave?"
My heart beats love.
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| mega church persecutionism?"Sometimes we are persecuted not because of our faith but simply because we are being stupid." -- Chris Rice
Not that I don't like large bodies of believers but I feel like I am sinning whenever I walk into a huge, elaborate church building that is not really efficient or even necessary (such as higher ground Baptist church in Kingsport TN). In July 1998, Higher Ground moved into its new $5.8 million dollar facility. how many people could have been fed, or given homes, or had their monthly bills paid with that much money?
I think if you go to a church like this you should probably re-read and evaluate the message of Jesus Christ and what we as Christians are supposed to be doing.
I have recently been rolling around the thought that perhaps we as Christians don't really suffer enough persecution. the persecution that we have is because of our hypocrisy which in my mind is completely valid and deserved. way to go followers. maybe if we tried a little harder and studied the word and took a little time to have time for the one who has given us so much love and freedom, we would want it more for others and in turn be a little more giving and a little less hypocritical.
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| screaming the wordI thought for a while that underoath was one of those "christian bands" that really had nothing to do with christianity very much at all other than just saying they were christians, but recently my respect has been growing for them, after seeing singer Chamberlain on FuseTV telling of his love for God and his want to live it out. I was reading an article in CCM magazine on them and in the interview guitarist Tim MacTague says
"I believe that we, as "Christians," have lost sight of what Christ intended our lives to be and the purpose and faith He gave His life to teach us. As long as we give our 39 cents a day and make it to church on Wedmesday and Sunday, we're all good...the American way...the new "Christianity." Whatever happened to the church of Acts where people would sell all they had and give to the pooor and join a body of thousands of people , living a life of prayer, community, and servanthood?....God is real and is waiting for a few real christians to step up and let him work through them the way he worked through the disciples. But it will cost everything."
To that I say rock on, and this makes me excited because this is what i have been screaming all along.
A time is coming soon when all this talking has to be put to action, and it is good to know that there are so many who feel the same way. We are the new disciples, we are the kingdom of God, and its about time we live it out.
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| Why is being a christian so hard to define? I cannot attempt to explain to someone exactly why I am a christian, but only how ( i mean my actions and what I am supposed to do. I think that the problem is that discipleship is not something that is supposed to be explained. I have been wrestling with this idea that christianity is not just preaching and telling people about God and his love, but to live it out to the furthest extremity. Jesus quite often talked about this, all that giving up everything to follow him, giving to the poor and loving your neighbor what-not. Well i could say that I can't really tell you why i am a christian, but where I am lacking in words the christian writer Donald Miller fills in for me. He talks about our realtionship with god and what we really want and really need in life has nothing to do with fashion, or ethics or politics, but relationships. christianity is not just about heaven or hell, not about "being taken off of the naughty or nice list" because if it is, miller says "that it doesnt meet the deep need of the human condition, it doesnt interact with the great desire of my soul....it is a story about humanity falling away from the community that named it, and an attempt to bring humanity back to that community....and speaks to the basic human need we are feeling."
The basic human need, is relationships. Jesus gave us two commands. Love god, Love each other the same way you love yourself. The human need is to feel loved and to feel important all of which god provides when following him through jesus christ! to step out on a limb and to give all that you have to others, love life and finaincial support. that is faith. | | |
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