| | Spaces between entries have become longer as time goes on. That should change in a month or so, gotta keep people updated since they won't see me that often.
I visited Holland, MI on June 29th and 30th. I met with Pastor Sharon, a couple elders and one deacon from Haven Shores Community Church. I also got to visit the church building and premises. It was a great trip and meeting and I feel as though Haven Shores will be a good fit for me. Now that mostly everything has come together for this whole seminary thing I am more anxious to go than before.
The only problem I seem to be having is my feelings about what I'm leaving in Chicago. It seems as though my mind is creating its own self defense mechanism to guard against any sad feelings. The problem is that its replacing the sad feelings with angry feelings. I don't know how this works but the way I think about it is that its easier to leave someone when you don't like them. Sounds kind of dumb(and it is) but it seems to be the way my mind has been going. I'm not sure why my mind acts in this way...maybe I'm just completely nuts.
Just over the past couple days though I have been trying to combat that attitude. I want the power of the Word to come back into my life. I want my faith to really lead my life again. An issue I've been continually thinking about is the duality we face as Christians. We still tend to think that our faith and beliefs only impact one area of our life. Or instead we choose to only allow our faith to impact one area of our life. We tend to separate ourself into a Christian and then our normal everyday self. Or in my case there is Pastoral Intern J and then just J. We even do this when it comes to sports, music, movies, friendships,etc... We don't allow our faith to have access to certain areas of our life. This is not a new lesson but one that is at the heart of a majority of Christians. |
| | Posted 7/8/2008 4:32 PM - 30 Views - 4 eProps - 2 comments
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