central old dominion in the fall
i sit here in virginia wanting to be done with this school. my computer janxed out on me this week, but it doesn't bother me. i backed up my files before coming to school. my ghetto machine is 4 years old. i have computer labs, and i have time to read now.
i am in the mac lab at school, because pc's are so overrated. why not learn how to use a mac when i can. the weather has been mediocre to say the least, school is sucking every penny out of me, and i am sick of studying. i can't wait to make a buck or two after school, and i can't wait to get into the world of work.
i'm reading a good book right now. actually i started reading it yesterday and have 40 pages left. i'm reading blue like jazz. i admit, it's a very trendy book circulating at school right now, but it goes beyond that. it presents genuine christians in their genuine lives.
i am ashamed to call myself a christian sometimes, not that i'm ashamed to have faith in jesus, but i'm ashamed of what christians have done to the world. the crusades, the churches. we have fallen from what we centrally are about, love. we often tell people what they are doing wrong, what they need to be fixing, how they are sinning, how they are straying, how they are lost when we aren't loving them. we are supposed to love. we christians are hypocrites more often than not. it hurts to say, but it's true. no wonder we have a bad reputation with the world. how can we tell others not to do stuff when we are out doing stuff just as bad ourselves. how can we tell others that they need to to certain things when we aren't doing the very things ourselves?
we get in a rut of going to church and singing songs and learning our 5 points of the sermon, but is that what christianity is all about. do we need to make church into a cliche. i think we distort what christianity is all about. we aren't going to please God by shaving our beards or keeping our hair short or not having tatoos or not smoking. we are going to please God by reaching out to the lost. we all know what is right and wrong. i don't need to tell someone that they are doing wrong or that they need to fix what they're doing. they know what they're doing and without me loving them they will have a hard time fixing it. i'm sorry, but we're not going to change the world by telling them they're wrong. the more we christians tell the world that they are wrong, the more we are becoming hypocrites. let's face it, we all have the same sins as the world, we just cover them up and put on a facade of "i'm better than you."
i can honestly say that i would rather be in a room full of guys with tatoos who are smoking that i know have a genuine heart than be in most baptist churches today.
i am in the mac lab at school, because pc's are so overrated. why not learn how to use a mac when i can. the weather has been mediocre to say the least, school is sucking every penny out of me, and i am sick of studying. i can't wait to make a buck or two after school, and i can't wait to get into the world of work.
i'm reading a good book right now. actually i started reading it yesterday and have 40 pages left. i'm reading blue like jazz. i admit, it's a very trendy book circulating at school right now, but it goes beyond that. it presents genuine christians in their genuine lives.
i am ashamed to call myself a christian sometimes, not that i'm ashamed to have faith in jesus, but i'm ashamed of what christians have done to the world. the crusades, the churches. we have fallen from what we centrally are about, love. we often tell people what they are doing wrong, what they need to be fixing, how they are sinning, how they are straying, how they are lost when we aren't loving them. we are supposed to love. we christians are hypocrites more often than not. it hurts to say, but it's true. no wonder we have a bad reputation with the world. how can we tell others not to do stuff when we are out doing stuff just as bad ourselves. how can we tell others that they need to to certain things when we aren't doing the very things ourselves?
we get in a rut of going to church and singing songs and learning our 5 points of the sermon, but is that what christianity is all about. do we need to make church into a cliche. i think we distort what christianity is all about. we aren't going to please God by shaving our beards or keeping our hair short or not having tatoos or not smoking. we are going to please God by reaching out to the lost. we all know what is right and wrong. i don't need to tell someone that they are doing wrong or that they need to fix what they're doing. they know what they're doing and without me loving them they will have a hard time fixing it. i'm sorry, but we're not going to change the world by telling them they're wrong. the more we christians tell the world that they are wrong, the more we are becoming hypocrites. let's face it, we all have the same sins as the world, we just cover them up and put on a facade of "i'm better than you."
i can honestly say that i would rather be in a room full of guys with tatoos who are smoking that i know have a genuine heart than be in most baptist churches today.
3 comments:
amen for the mac lab. you make me proud.
good book. a little too liberal for me, but it has some outstanding points.
Sean, if you have your own copy of Blue Light Jazz, could you send it to me when you're done? I've been meaning to read it for quite a while now.
I'm proud of you for finally coming around to the mac world.
Hey, I miss the bike journals. Have youbeen riding latwly? I'm still commuting on Dad's Paramount and am loving every minute of it. I'll try to call you sometime.
fyi, the working world is not as exciting as it is hyped up to be! When I was in school I couldn't wait to start working, but now that I'm working, I can't wait to stop!
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