Welcome to my world. Seeking God, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, is my main goal in life. Before you think me, holier than thou, realize that I didn't say, I was good at it. I simply make it my purpose, my goal, my vision, my reason for being. I will share who I am, how I got here, where I hope to go later. For now, it is enough to state my beliefs:

1. Jesus Christ is the one and only Son of God. He left heaven to be born of a virgin (Mary), lived a life where he committed no sin, at age 30 began a 3 year ministry in Israel to teach man what God was truly like, was sentenced to death and crucified for the sins of the world, died and rose from the dead 3 days later, appeared to his followers, and then rose to heaven to re-take his proper place at the right and of God. He will one day return to gather all of his believers to and take them to live with him forever in heaven.

2. Jesus is my personal Lord & savior. Even though I have sinned, along with all human beings, my acceptance of Jesus as Lord and His redeeming work of dying on the cross for my sins cleanses me from my past. Because of this, I am now a new creation; a new being. I still have the old habits, memories, and tendencies that I had before accepting Jesus; however, I now have God's Spirit living inside of me compelling me to do what is right in God's sight.

This is why seeking God, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, is my main goal in life.

I hope that you will join me in seeking after God. Whether you believe what I believe or not, I invite you to check back and follow along as I tell my life story and journey from a non-believer to a believer.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

I’m So Frustrated

I'm so tired of endless activity. It's just our culture. Why do we think that busy is better? I understand that there is a lot of interesting and fun stuff to do, but why do we feel that we have to be involved in everything? The needless busyness infects families. It causes adults to overwork and neglect their spouses and children. It causes parents to get their kids involved in way too many activities. I understand that kids need to have constructive extra-curricular activities to help keep them out of trouble, but this is ridiculous. Who in their right minds can believe that this type of lifestyle is healthy?

Unfortunately, this lifestyle has also crept into the church. I'm all for fellowship and activities to allow people to have fun and get to know each other better. But how many do we need? We plan activity after activity, and program after program while neglecting what the church was created to do: to lead people to Christ and teach them how to live in His kingdom here and now.

We glorify programs and strive to be like mega-churches that have hundreds of activities and draw in thousands of people, but we never stop to ask if all those programs are actually changing people's lives. Honestly, they can't be. The Christian culture still has as many, if not more, divorce and abuse as the non-Christian culture. I would think that it would be obvious that what the church is currently doing is not working. And if it keeps doing the same thing that it's doing now, we will keep seeing the same results. It's not a matter of running a different or new program; it's a matter of a systems overhaul. The church has to be gutted of its current mindset, its paradigm and adopt a new one. Actually, an old one.

The church must re-adopt its purpose that Jesus initiated in the New Testament. If we don't, the only question that is relevant is, "Will Jesus really find anyone faithful when He returns?"
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