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Name: Brian
Country: United States
State: Mississippi
Metro: Meridian
Birthday: 1/3/1980
Expertise: i can do a few different things, but i can't say i'm mastered at any of them...don't call me if you need open heart surgery, but i can probably fix your sink.
Industry: Construction
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Member Since:
12/7/2005
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| so its been very nearly two years since i posted on this site and its sorta blowing my mind. i remember pretty vividly writing these things...two years didn't take long enough to pass! anyhow. this is really an experiment to see just how this thing works. if you read this, leave a short comment stating the fact. my curiosity has gotten me | | |
| so whats the difference between me and you? | | |
| was witnessed to in the mall this afternoon. there were two guys, and i was with keyes, so they each had one of us. some how keyes and i both decided to react the same way and act relatively uneducated and just let them talk. i could overhear a bit of what keyes and the other guy were talking about; pretty typical stuff. Jesus = good, sin = bad. my guy i take it was the "leader". he had a big scribbled in bible and a solid game plan. he talked a few minutes and then in some clever phrase, asked me if i was born again. i said yes. he took it the same way i probably would have. probably thinking, "this guy prayed once or some thing, but has no clue what i'm calling salvation." but he doesn't say it out loud. he goes on to talk about the call to make disciples. then he asks me a surprisingly good question. he finishes up his "B. Making Disciples" spill with, "so are you ready to go tonight and do that?" now the answer of course is easy. sure. but i paused before i answered and thought about it. the challenging thing about this question for me wasn't the answer. the thing that challenged me was the fact he asked it. and more so, that he had the opportunity to ask it. in the second he asked i realized that this guys not just about a prayer or number, but he's recruiting! he has just challenged my claim of salvation with a verb form of christianity. (what a thought. i think i read that somewhere) so then, as i was realizing that, it hits me that no matter if i said yes, i'd go "make disciples", i hadn't been. and more directly i wasn't at that second, nor did i have set plans to. so under the weight of those thoughts, taking care not to blow my cover, i simply responded that if i were ready to go, i probably wouldn't have been hanging out there at the mall. he smiled. then went on to the letter "C" in his plan, which i think was actually a revert to letter "A" because he shared some 'righteousness is not your own" scripture and we were done with it. he never told me where they were from, which was a plus on the witnessing scale for me. i liked he was there that night because of Jesus, regardless of his church. however, it raised some concern in my mind about his emphasis on discipleship. how do you do that with no possibility of reconnection?? no matter. i found out keyes asked his guy were they were from so i may give the guy a call. not sure. but it was the first time i think i've ever been witnessed to and walked away feeling small. i think my words for the day will be "relentless" and "pursuit" | | |
| "everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better" Hemingway
"For God's love is like a river springing up in the depth of the Divine Substance and flowing endlessly through His creation, filling all things with life and goodness and strength." T. Merton
There is good discussion waiting to be born out of the comparison of these two.
Have a good day. | | |
| so, i watched this program about the moon today. it seems that something like four billion years ago (maybe more, i can't exactly remember...whats a few billion years among friends, right) there were far more planets in our "inner" solar system. apparently, their orbits, over time happened to intersect and thus, due to the collisions that ensued, we have our moon, and possibly, some of the other hundred and thirty-five or so moons surrounding our various neighbors. (don't totally quote these numbers, i've got a decent memory, but you know..) its quite a sell. apparently the planet that was our moon was about the size of mars, and it "glanced" our planet and was destroyed. the debris then got caught up in this planet's gravitational pull and as this hot "ex-planet" rock and dust spun around the earth it began to collect, in a process called acreation and viola, the moon. this collision also happens to explain the 23.5 degree axis our planet has that allows our seasons (which the moon's gravity maintains for us...thanks for that) and the spinning of our planet that gives us days and nights. isn't that something. also interesting is that when all this happened the moon was only like 17,000 miles out (as opposed to 250,000 miles now...or about 15 billion inches, which ever you prefer) so the tides its gravity causes now were like a thousand times more powerful and the pull would have effected land as well. crazy. see, since the "birth" of the moon, its been moving further away from us. we know that now because the apollo 11 moon landing left a disk on the moon we shoot a laser at about 240 times a year, measuring the distance (like sonar kinda). they say its moving 1.5" away a year. anyway, it was a ton of useless information. assuming, being a christian, i can believe stuff happened billions of year ago (which i guess time like that is actually totally relative, or maybe irrelevant since there won't be "actual" proof the dating is correct) i find it all interesting and somehow satisfying. probably more of a waste of time than anything though. ha | | |
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