New Record: Two Posts Same Day

Okay, sorry for rambling on with my daily life by posting so much. Everybody is entiltled to going Conn - right?

I got back from my mission trip this past week and I must say that it was quite an experience. It was absolutely enlightening and amazing to yet see another area of the world in which God is working and bringing people to a saving knowledge of Himself. There is so much I wish to share, but I don't think this is the proper forum. However, I will say that the trip home was quite the adventure.

27hours of travel (7 hour layover in London & 4hour drive from NewYork) was a doosy! Still not sure I'm on schedule. For instance it's 3:30am even as I write. I better go to bed.

Leave again on Friday!

RANT

Begin RANT:

I grabbed a bottle of Pepto and headed for the landfill known as MySpace for another game of FSWNC. (Former Students With No Clue) This is a game where me as a youth pastor browses around blogs to check on students and see how they are doing. More often than not, I find a link of some former student with no clue as to what they are doing with their life!

Tonight’s version was quite interesting. I read about specific people involved in specific ministries with a specific faith claiming absolutely nothing of specific consequence. In fact, I found quite the opposite. I mostly found young students categorizing their faith as separate from their reality. Faith was a tool to be used when life called for that tool. Not a faith to be lived in the midst of every moment of life.

There seemed to be a disconnect in the matter of calling your religion “Christian” and then everything else on the page pointing to anything but Christ.

Notice: If you fit in this category, please do everyone a favor, please re-label yourself. I’m sick of reading one student after another saying, “I’m a Christian”, but I break the law and drink. I’m a Christian, but I had sex less than 3 months ago. I’m a Christian, but I still party.

In order to help those with this misunderstanding, I would like to provide some alternative labels to your religion:

1). Lover of MySelf
2). Hello MySpace, GoodBye GodSpace
3). Can’t Trust God Yet
4). Faithless
5). Looking for the benefits of Christianity with out following Christ.
6). Who’s Christ?
7). Present World Lover

End RANT.

Saloam

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I am well and learning a lot. It is beautiful here! We are having great conversations and making good contacts for continued work in other countries. The more I learn the more impossible the task seems to become. It's a great thing we have the Holy Spirit. In case anyone was wondering or not aware. I love and miss my wife dearly. I read earlier that I bewitched her heart and soul. Gotta run the van is here! Later friends! and my bewitched wife!

Jason