In order to catch up...Sue whispered to me this morning during quiet time that Paul seems to have let up a little bit on women being submissive. I said that his hardcore-ness about women may have had to do with one particular woman in Timothy's life of faith who was holding him back from being the leader he needed to be for the church. 2 Timothy is the last letter Paul wrote, so we'll see what his final words of wisdom are. My hope and prayer is that we'll have a couple mission trippers blogging with us next week after we get home.
I'm sorry about the abruptness of my last e-mail about my not checking it this week. I'm just realistic about the amount of free time I have these weeks. On day one, our residents watched us work. After today, all 7 of them have helped out. I have been picking the 3 teenage girls after work and bringing them to our evening programs. Then I take them home and get locked out of the building. I barely have time to journal before I fall into bed. The wake-up call is at 6:30 am.
Jordan, you made the comment a couple of days ago that "You need to go all in." The mission trippers are leading the way, so you can follow. We have all made the commitment to live in intentional community, learning, worshipping, and fellowshipping together. This will inspire us to serve and share our faith. We have surrendered our lives to Christ and will be following his lead.
When I got my first paid youth ministry job on Jan 26th, 1997, I quit drinking. At the end of last summer, I loosed up and had a couple of drinks. I've probably done that once or twice a month since. I have now made the commitment to not drink, other than common cup every week. Please help keep me accountable to this. It's very important to me.
Off to the evening program...
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I'm confused, what is the sequence of events that lead from "surrendered our lives to Christ" to not drinking?
ReplyDeleteThe rich young ruler lacked one thing. I'll talk about it more in worship today, but the one thing I've lacked this last year is the discipline to quit drinking, although God has reached out to me several times. Since fully surrendering to Jesus, I now have the strength to stick with this conviction. I don't expect everyone to quit drinking, nor do I think everyone will become a vegetarian, but it's something I need to do for God, myself, and my family. Too much is at stake.
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