Plain and simply, sometimes the Christian life is just way too hard. Sometimes I feel completely unequipped or qualified to be doing any of this. I don't know who I can trust, which Christians are in the right and which are in the wrong? These questions are only coming up because the Christians that I am around are often judging other Christians. Often I feel like telling everyone to stop judging others, but inevitably I end in a place where I start judging the very people that are judging others.
And then there is this business about being attacked by the Devil. A lot of the time I feel embarrassed even talking about the Devil. It just seems like such a cop-out a lot of the time, like why should I blame my problems on the Devil? I don't feel like even acknowledging him much of the time. Then it got to the point recently in my Ministry where the Devil was invoking such negativity into my life that I realized that I had to fight him head on. It was either that or I had to do something, he was about to either drive me to drink or make me drive him out of my life. So after realizing that I was being attacked very strongly I asked a friend to pray with me. There was nothing more strong that I have ever experienced to cause negative time to go away than to pray with a Christian friend.
I think it really can come down to this fact.. The beginning part of the Gospel was Jesus fighting off Satan. If even Jesus dealed with this, surely I will also need to deal with it.
Fight the good fight of the faith..
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
YEA ONE WEEK AWAY
So I was just studying on being all thing to all people so that you can win them over. It comes from Paul's teaching in 1 cor.9. The thing that is preached is that when you are among non believers you do not need to be afraid to go into their life (parties, dances, bars, or cars). The thing is that you cant say "OK my life is so godly so just do what I do and you will be OK." What we should be doing in ministry is be apart of the non belivers life, it is not them that should be put out of their comfort zone it is us. The things that we can not be accommodating in are morals and doctrine. Those things are set by God and they are absolute, (SUCH AS SEX AND DRINKING)...
This week I went in my Church for GOD WALK. It was cool fellowship time as we learned about Darwinism, and discussed those issues and Christianity. I also had a really nice lunch with a lady who loves being around younger people. It was cool, and she really gave me some good insight.
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