Well, it's been a while since my last post again. I've been busy. I'm not going to get into that too much, but it has made me realize something. My idea that I would post more frequently will probably not come to fruition. I think part of it may be that I'm giving myself deadlines. It makes writing too much of a chore. Then it's not that I'm writing because of something I thought of but because I feel I have to. Even if I don't really have anything I want to write about. So, from now on I'm throwing out the idea of posting every other week. It doesn't mean I won't. It just means I'm no longer giving myself that requirement. That way my posts will get back to being what I wanted them to be, ways of sharing my thoughts on things. Then, I think, I will be more likely to actually want to write them.
So here's my quick recap of things from the last few weeks. Had a costume party to go to a few weekends ago, so leading up to that I spent a decent amount of my free time working on my costume for said party. So for less than probably $10 total, I had my costume:
If you can't tell, I went as Thor. I think that the process of making the costume was almost as much fun as wearing it. Though, my family would probably not agree. Bonus use of the costume was a super-hero themed service project the morning after the costume party. So, that was all a lot of fun. Since then, there's just been a lot of things that add up to taking up all of my free time. Parties of several varieties(barn, surprise, even Christmas), line dancing, spending time with friends and, of course, school. Oh, and I started a new puzzle. It's pretty cool and I like it a lot so far. But let's get on to the meat and potatoes of this post.
I've had a lot of ideas come to mind for what to post over the past few weeks, but every time I would sit down to write something, I just couldn't bring myself to do it. Whether it be the fact that I felt I didn't have enough to say about the topic or that I just couldn't find a way to start the post, the words just wouldn't come. Until yesterday. Yesterday, I realized what I wanted to write about.
One of the things that has been a part of my busy life of late is a bible study called Real Men. Our goal is to figure out how we can be the men that God meant for us to be; Real Men as only He can define. At some point I would love to write about that. But not today. Maybe after we've spent some more time on it. Maybe sooner. Today, though, I want to write about something that came up while just chatting after our bible study one night. It's something I've been thinking about a lot lately and found that several of the other guys in the group agreed. I feel like the Church has not been the Church lately. By that I mean that the Church of today is not what it was meant to be from the dawn of Christianity. And when I brought this up, we started talking about getting back to the first Church, becoming like the early Christians. We talked about diving into the word and really trying to figure out how God wanted us to live as Christians within the Church. And that's exactly what I want to do.
Now the reason I say that it wasn't until yesterday that I realized I wanted to talk about this is that we had had our conversation a few weeks ago, but the busyness of life buried the thought in the back of my head. Yesterday, my daily reading included Romans 12. The heading for verses 9-21 is "Marks of the True Christian"(ESV). This passage gives a pretty simple list of things that we need to do. But there's also a lot of other places in the bible that show us how we can live as true Christians. Then today, I read Romans 14. What that caused me to realize is this; we have many different beliefs when it comes to how we should serve God. This is evident in the fact that we have so many different denominations in the Christian faith. The only reason why we have different denominations is a difference in what we believe is necessary in following God. But as Paul says to the Christians in Rome; "Who are [we] to pass judgement on the servant of another?" It's not about the things we do, but the reasons behind it. So, in figuring out how to live as true Christians, we need to recognize that there are different ways to serve the Lord.
I am going to challenge myself to examine my life in comparison to that of the True Christian Paul writes about. And I am going to try to learn what the Church is meant to be and try to bring it to reality. And I am going to challenge you to do the same with your life.
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