Does Your Life Make Sense?

You know those nagging thoughts that dominate your mind in the morning? Those things that you absolutely know you can’t think about if you want to accomplish what you need to accomplish today? Well, I walked into the office this morning and I couldn’t get this passage out of my mind:

“Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”; and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.” – 1 Corinthians 3:18-20

This is such an important and practical passage to me. I can’t get the main question of this passage out of my head: “Does your life make sense to the people of this world?”

Have you ever taken the time to think about that? If I profess faith in Jesus Christ, my life should not make sense in accordance to the ways of this world. Every decision I make, every action I take, should make a person stop and consider why I am doing what I am doing.

See, I know that this can sound ridiculous, it can sound difficult, and ultimately, you may still say that this is impossible. But, I submit to you that, this is impossible to not be true for the believer that truly walks in faith. If a person continually takes the next step of faith in their life, if they continually walk toward Jesus on the water of life and trust Him to provide everything that they need, how can their life possibly make sense?! They’re walking on water!?

My point here is this: If we are walking in faith, then my life will never fail to boggle people’s minds. Faith is not something that comes from this world. It’s not something that I can just muster up. Faith comes from believing. Faith comes from God and God alone. That is a supernatural thing. That is a “foolish” thing in the eyes of men, but it is the only thing that makes sense for those who believe in Him.

So- Does your life make sense? If it does, what are you going to do today that is going to take the next step of not making sense. What is your faith worth to you?

Guess Who Moved?

I was leaving my friends house the other night and saw a church sign that read like this one:

See, I struggle with this one. Obviously, the sign is trying to insinuate that we are the one that moved, right? But, that gets real tricky for me for multiple reasons:

1. Who Knows Who Moved? Do you mean to tell me that the person that put this sign up knows that I moved away from God when I feel far from Him? It cannot be inviting for someone to look at that sign and think, “Gee, I bet that place is full of Grace and Mercy. I bet I’ll be accepted there.” Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for activating the Church to be who it is supposed to be AND continue to pursue God. However, this sign doesn’t speak love, grace, and the invitation of the gospel. It speaks judgement; it speaks typical American cynicism. I mean let’s be honest and agree that sometimes, God moves and the only reason we recognize that He moved is because we feel far from Him. When we feel far from Him, we pursue Him. Sure, He holds us up. But, He leads us as well. Sometimes, we need to feel the desperation of losing our parents in Walmart in order to be persistent in sticking with them.
2. On a Church Sign, Really? I cannot stand it when a Body of Believers wants to represent itself by trying to cause waves with a stinking sign. If you want to simply create waves, LIVE LIKE JESUS CALLS YOU TO LIVE! Sometimes, I think that things like this are only in place to try and rustle some feathers so people will come check out the place. I tell you this: I never want to be a part of a Church that uses insinuating interjections and theologically threatening slogans to get people to check out what we are about. The Church Sign is about opportunity and information. The Church is about interrupting people’s lives with the testimony of Jesus Christ in the gospel lived out through His Body.

So, I was a bit frustrated and wrote a blog post in my head. But, God sometimes feels distant to me. However, it only causes me to figure out where He is going next.

And to answer their question, I think God is the one moving. So maybe I should shut up and start following.

A New Event JAM-PACKED with Fun and Purpose

That’s right- “If and overnighter and a retreat had a baby, this is what it would be.”

We are really excited to be taking 100 Senior High Students and Leaders on what should be one of the coolest, most jam-packed overnight trip to Ft. Wayne… EVER. It all takes place on March 9-10 and you really don’t want to miss it!

During our worship times and group times, we are going to be taking a serious look at Matthew 5:16 and focus in on these words: “Let Your Light Shine.” Come join us!

Here’s how it works:

• Friday Night: Komets Hockey Game, Food, Worship, Stay in a Hotel
• Saturday Morning: TAWG, Food, Laser Tag
• Saturday Afternoon: Food, Worship, Jesus
• Saturday Night: Jesus, Food, Jesus
• Home by 8:30pm.

This might be the best event for $42 if you sign up by Sunday. The Final Deadline is February 26 and the cost goes up to $50. We are staying in a hotel and it’s going to be an awesome time to bond together and have a ton of fun. If you have questions, email me or send me a facebook message!

A Video That I Wish Was Viral

It was my day off today, and it was cold out, so I did a lot of web surfing. noticed a video going viral and wrote a post on it that will go up on Monday. So stay tuned. However, I also found another video, created by the same guy, that I really wish was the one going viral right now. Maybe you agree, maybe you disagree. Let’s see what you think:

Let it be shown that I would affirm everything up until Chandler describes the “elect.” I would assume that my idea of “the elect” and his theology behind it are two very different terms. Otherwise, this is golden. This is more than golden, this is the Gospel.