Hey what's up. I have a question pertinent to the utapas de viva (is that right Mindy?) that I am in right now. This question is for some of the older members of Metro (if you don't go to Metro come back Tuesday :-) unless your just curious about our church) I guess I'm talking mostly to Jaime, Mom, Rachel, Jenn, Medana and whoever else from Metro that might stumble across my humble blog (if you people want to tell your friends to come and answer the question thats cool plus it'll give my site more hits :-)
Question: what are one or two of the biggest things that you would like to see change about our youth/young singles? Be it a concern, a burden, just something you've noticed etc. anything you've noticed about the young people of the Church. Now this isn't just to hear you vent (altho that's cool too) but I was sitting here in DC wondering "hey I wonder what some of the older people think of me/us but never tell me."
So fire away!
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Saturday, May 19, 2007
Monday, April 30, 2007
Spiritual Warfare
Hey what's up people. First let me start by saying that Baron Davis is a baller.
Ok now that we have that out of the way...last night they showed the first DVD of the Truth Project at Metro Life (my church) and it was sweet. I'd already seen it, but it was wonderful to be hear, yet again, about the importance of truth. One of the things that is stressed is the idea of what the Truth Project calls the "cosmic battle" the great fight between Truth and Lies, and everything that that entails.
After the 45 minute presentation, we broke down into small groups, and one of the guys in my small group said something very profound. Joey asked the question, "do we live our lives as if we're actually in a 'cosmic battle.'" At the risk of misrepresenting what he said, the man said something to the degree of, "In America, with all our blessings and comforts, it's hard to imagine ourselves in any sort of spiritual battle, or even a cosmic battle. It's hard to pray 'give us our daily bread' when there's a roast in the oven. In some third world countries, when they say 'give us our daily bread' it's b/c they need something to eat! That might be why it's so much easier to see themselves in a battle."
It reminded me of a part of Randy Alcorn's book Safely Home where Ben asks "why aren't there demons in America?" and Li answers "There are. In America demons have much nicer voices."
My question is a weird one: do you guys think there's more demons/spiritual warfare in Third World countries, or do you think in America we're simply blinded by our comforts/blessings/entertainment?
Ok now that we have that out of the way...last night they showed the first DVD of the Truth Project at Metro Life (my church) and it was sweet. I'd already seen it, but it was wonderful to be hear, yet again, about the importance of truth. One of the things that is stressed is the idea of what the Truth Project calls the "cosmic battle" the great fight between Truth and Lies, and everything that that entails.
After the 45 minute presentation, we broke down into small groups, and one of the guys in my small group said something very profound. Joey asked the question, "do we live our lives as if we're actually in a 'cosmic battle.'" At the risk of misrepresenting what he said, the man said something to the degree of, "In America, with all our blessings and comforts, it's hard to imagine ourselves in any sort of spiritual battle, or even a cosmic battle. It's hard to pray 'give us our daily bread' when there's a roast in the oven. In some third world countries, when they say 'give us our daily bread' it's b/c they need something to eat! That might be why it's so much easier to see themselves in a battle."
It reminded me of a part of Randy Alcorn's book Safely Home where Ben asks "why aren't there demons in America?" and Li answers "There are. In America demons have much nicer voices."
My question is a weird one: do you guys think there's more demons/spiritual warfare in Third World countries, or do you think in America we're simply blinded by our comforts/blessings/entertainment?
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