I am sad.
For those of you who know me, know that I love John Mayer. I pray for him all the time, not just by choice, but because he is always on my heart to pray for him. I just read his latest interview it was just sad. I was talking to my friend, a really close friend, the other day who claimed to be a Christian and as we got to talking about her life I became extremely confused. I just has to stop the conversation, right where it was and ask, "Where is Jesus in all of this?".
When i hear people talking about their lives and what is going on...I am constantly surprised by how many people dont care about their lives. Like there is no science to it, just I DONT CARE. What kind of future does that lead to? You dont care about yourself, which means you dont care about anyone else and the people that you have tried to care about it has all failed. Leading to you dont care about the world or government that makes laws over you and you dont feel the need to pay attention to the things going on around you not only making yourself unaware, but ignorant.
I am not just talking about non-Believers. I am talking about people...where are we headed? Where?
But I know, you dont care
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
One thing that I will never understand
Today I was reading the news on CNN.com, because as I am growing up, I am realizing that I need to know what is going on in the world around me...So I was reading an article on Osama bin Laden and I discovered that not only is he active, he is really active. There were 6 tapes from him last year(2009) and he was said to be responsible for the attack on Michigan in December... After a couple of days they came on TV saying that they know for sure that al Qaeda was part of this attack, never did they say that they know this because bin Laden came out with a tape saying it was him and that people of the United States will not know safety until they have peace! That is a very important thing to leave out of a news broadcast!
Now when I heard about I skyped one of my friends and asked... Did you ever believe that Osama bin Laden was dead...ans she answered,"I've never really followed up with that guy." SERIOUSLY! Not only is the news not reporting on the things that they are suppose to, AMERICA DOESN'T CARE. They (we) would rather listen reports on celebrities, that don't give a flying flip about them (us) and if there was a major attack would probably get on there private jet and leave us all, instead of things that matter to us in the matter of life and death....
That is messed up, just wrong. What makes this even more saddening is that She is a Christian. I am pretty hard on Christians, but I hate when they dont do their jobs..The Bible clearly tells us to be steward of the earth, to serve Him with our minds, body and soul. How can you serve His people when you dont even know whats going on around you or being good stewards of the information available. How can you pray for your country like your suppose to, if you dont even know what is needed to be prayed about... I'm not just talking about other people, i am talking for myself too.
Even though I really care for other people and for justice and read politics and so on, I think that I pray for Brazil and celebrities more than I do for my own country, which isnt bad...but I dont pray for Brazil as much as I should so I know I am not doing my job as a Christian American.
Something has got to change and fast
Now when I heard about I skyped one of my friends and asked... Did you ever believe that Osama bin Laden was dead...ans she answered,"I've never really followed up with that guy." SERIOUSLY! Not only is the news not reporting on the things that they are suppose to, AMERICA DOESN'T CARE. They (we) would rather listen reports on celebrities, that don't give a flying flip about them (us) and if there was a major attack would probably get on there private jet and leave us all, instead of things that matter to us in the matter of life and death....
That is messed up, just wrong. What makes this even more saddening is that She is a Christian. I am pretty hard on Christians, but I hate when they dont do their jobs..The Bible clearly tells us to be steward of the earth, to serve Him with our minds, body and soul. How can you serve His people when you dont even know whats going on around you or being good stewards of the information available. How can you pray for your country like your suppose to, if you dont even know what is needed to be prayed about... I'm not just talking about other people, i am talking for myself too.
Even though I really care for other people and for justice and read politics and so on, I think that I pray for Brazil and celebrities more than I do for my own country, which isnt bad...but I dont pray for Brazil as much as I should so I know I am not doing my job as a Christian American.
Something has got to change and fast
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Hello World...its been too long!
Well..if you did not know I was out of the country for A WHOLE MONTH! It was really awesome!I was in Brazil and I got to work a this camp called World of Life there in Porte Algre! It was awesome, I got to met people I will be friends with until the day I die!(Which is always a good thing)
So for awhile i bet my stories are going to have something to do with Brazil or people from Brazil, thats kind of where my mind and thoughts are at this point.
We did door to door ministry while we were in Brazil and that is something that I never saw myself doing! People who did that were crazy and imposing and the people doing it would not come in my house! Well While we were out ever single house we walked up to let us in and wanted to talk to us. (and not just because we were Americans a group of Brazilian students go travel to this same town and get the same reaction). This was the first shocker, they knew why we were there and they knew what we wanted to talk about and they always let us in.
We were sent out with partners and a translator,which was scary just by itself...I didn't know what to expect or what I was going to say. We went to maybe 5 or 6 houses and talked to people and they were all amazing periods of time. Just things I never thought to see, hear and people I never thought I was going talk to...I never thought I was going to see Brazil!
There was this one house in particular that we went to and there were two women standing outside and they were talking, with 3 little ones running around playing. Our Translator asked the ladies if we could enter their gate and come talk and they said yes. One lady was the next door neighbor and she left when we got there and the other lady lead us into the house. We get in and she asked us to sit down and we started talking to her about Jesus. We asked her if she was saved and she said yes..she even went and got her certificate that said she was baptized to prove to us that she wasn't lying. We let her know that we believed her and we were glad that she had found salvation and she was a believer and so on.
Then she went on to say that she didn't ever want to go back to church again..as she said this my translators face began to look very confused because the things she told us about her faith did not match with the idea of never going to church again. She continued her story: She went to a church that was in the town she used to live in and he grandson(one of the little ones that was running around when we got to the house earlier) and the pastor kicked her out because he was distracting to the service and made her stand outside.
She was so hurt and embarrassed that she did not want to go to the church again. So since she has stopped going to the church (since the beginning of the year) There have been some serious rains. These rains have been flooding the area and ruining the crop (tomatoes) which is the only source of income for most of the residents around. As she told us what happen at church she concluded that the rains and ruining of the crop where all her fault. God was punishing her and her family because she had not been going to church (not to mention her son who worked with the tomatoes had a son and was not married and the women lived with them). This story really hit me in the heart. My family has gone through so many church hurts, but we always had each other and my parents (because of the way they were raised) always keep going and looking for church homes. But to be in a community where you have nothing and churches are supposed to be coming and bringing you hope, but really only bringing you down, thats just unbelievable!
She spent her days in that house blaming herself for the rain coming down every night and for not going to church even though the church did not welcome her. This upset me, how can the church come into a community where they need them the most and forget how they should treat people.
This is a recurring theme in my blog I think....CHRISTIANS ARE YOU REALLY TREATING PEOPLE WITH LOVE? Are you really going and doing the job that God tells us too...or making people's heart hard to the message of God because we come in the name of Jesus and treat them wrong??
Good news is we prayed for her and we got to apologize for the way that preacher treated her. We invited her and her grandson to church for a kids service and they came...WHICH WAS AWESOME! God really worked in her heart and H taught me a really good lesson, that I will never forget.
So for awhile i bet my stories are going to have something to do with Brazil or people from Brazil, thats kind of where my mind and thoughts are at this point.
We did door to door ministry while we were in Brazil and that is something that I never saw myself doing! People who did that were crazy and imposing and the people doing it would not come in my house! Well While we were out ever single house we walked up to let us in and wanted to talk to us. (and not just because we were Americans a group of Brazilian students go travel to this same town and get the same reaction). This was the first shocker, they knew why we were there and they knew what we wanted to talk about and they always let us in.
We were sent out with partners and a translator,which was scary just by itself...I didn't know what to expect or what I was going to say. We went to maybe 5 or 6 houses and talked to people and they were all amazing periods of time. Just things I never thought to see, hear and people I never thought I was going talk to...I never thought I was going to see Brazil!
There was this one house in particular that we went to and there were two women standing outside and they were talking, with 3 little ones running around playing. Our Translator asked the ladies if we could enter their gate and come talk and they said yes. One lady was the next door neighbor and she left when we got there and the other lady lead us into the house. We get in and she asked us to sit down and we started talking to her about Jesus. We asked her if she was saved and she said yes..she even went and got her certificate that said she was baptized to prove to us that she wasn't lying. We let her know that we believed her and we were glad that she had found salvation and she was a believer and so on.
Then she went on to say that she didn't ever want to go back to church again..as she said this my translators face began to look very confused because the things she told us about her faith did not match with the idea of never going to church again. She continued her story: She went to a church that was in the town she used to live in and he grandson(one of the little ones that was running around when we got to the house earlier) and the pastor kicked her out because he was distracting to the service and made her stand outside.
She was so hurt and embarrassed that she did not want to go to the church again. So since she has stopped going to the church (since the beginning of the year) There have been some serious rains. These rains have been flooding the area and ruining the crop (tomatoes) which is the only source of income for most of the residents around. As she told us what happen at church she concluded that the rains and ruining of the crop where all her fault. God was punishing her and her family because she had not been going to church (not to mention her son who worked with the tomatoes had a son and was not married and the women lived with them). This story really hit me in the heart. My family has gone through so many church hurts, but we always had each other and my parents (because of the way they were raised) always keep going and looking for church homes. But to be in a community where you have nothing and churches are supposed to be coming and bringing you hope, but really only bringing you down, thats just unbelievable!
She spent her days in that house blaming herself for the rain coming down every night and for not going to church even though the church did not welcome her. This upset me, how can the church come into a community where they need them the most and forget how they should treat people.
This is a recurring theme in my blog I think....CHRISTIANS ARE YOU REALLY TREATING PEOPLE WITH LOVE? Are you really going and doing the job that God tells us too...or making people's heart hard to the message of God because we come in the name of Jesus and treat them wrong??
Good news is we prayed for her and we got to apologize for the way that preacher treated her. We invited her and her grandson to church for a kids service and they came...WHICH WAS AWESOME! God really worked in her heart and H taught me a really good lesson, that I will never forget.
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