What has happened in the last 2 months?
I had my birthday. I was depressed. I got over it. What was weirdest/most telling was that all of my gifts had to do with food. I wonder if someone is trying to tell me something. I like food. Perhaps I like food too much. Maybe it is time to start showing some self-discipline and stop being lazy. I don't know if I'm up for it, but it's time to start getting serious about life and discipline.
I have been doing mediocre lately in my ministry but I think something has turned a corner. I think I am finally ready to get back into the swing of things after too long being out of the swing of things. One of the things that came up was Harvest Festival. I don't know how willing I was to start off, but my brother-in-law really pushed me through it and by the time it came around, I was in the swing of things. We ended up having about 400 people come through our Harvest Festival -- 300 of which weren't members of our church. It was quite an outreach and now we have our work ahead of us to follow up on everything. I did e-mail everyone who gave me an e-mail address the same night (although I haven't heard anything back from anyone yet.)
Election night was interesting. I had special class with my family and so I had the laptop watching election results. It became pretty evident that Obama won about 7 pm to me, considering all he needed was 15 electoral votes + the 55 California votes he was getting no matter what. So that was not too much of a surprise. What was a surprise, and a pleasant one at that, is that Proposition 8 won. Of course, it's not over. If it would have failed, I don't think there would be marching in the streets, but ok. I understand why.
What is going on though is the perversion of love. I see the signs, "My love is the same as your love." "We demand equality." "No to H8te." The Bible tells us that God is love. It also tells us that homosexuality is God giving man over to their sinful desires, exchanging what is natural for what is unnatural. Reading through Romans 1, we can see that we are in the last verses of Romans 1.
29 They are full of every kind of sin, evil and ungodliness. They want more than they need. They commit murder. They want what belongs to other people. They fight and cheat. They hate others. They say mean things about other people. 30 They tell lies about them. They hate God. They are rude and proud. They brag. They think of new ways to do evil. They don't obey their parents. 31 They are foolish. They can't be trusted. They are not loving and kind.32 They know that God's commands are right. They know that those who do evil things should die. But they continue to do those very things. They also approve of others who do them.
The amount of people out there in Hollywood who are not gay but marching because they believe this is a civil right says that they are approving of others who sin. They are calling wrong right and right evil now. I have seen my views called nearly racism, that I am acting in hate, that this is wrong to deny people the right to marry. God is love. We, as a society, have distorted love. We have turned love around to a gushy feeling that is easy to fall into and sometimes even easier to fall out of.
I have also been asked why denying them the right to marry is right. Wouldn't outlawing adultery be just as affective in sanctity of marraige? How come we stand up against this sin but not others? Just because we do not stand up to every sin does not make it wrong when we stand up against one. It isn't a hatred of homosexuals. I have worked with homosexuals. I have been cordial. I talked to them everyday, was friendly, and greeted them with a warm smile and handshake. It is not the person I am against. It is the normalization of something God calls sin and making it normal and sin to stand against.
I understand the civil right marches that are starting to take place because they are hearily approving of those who do evil in the sight of God as normal behavior.
On Saturday, we are having a letter writing campaign to write Marine recruits to thank them for being a part of our military. The letters will go into Christmas stockings that will be hand delivered. It is a really cool project that I look forward to being a part of for a while.
The following Saturday is our second annual car show. Should be a good time.
Ok, done for now. But let me close with this:
"1 All of you must be willing to obey completely those who rule over you. There are no authorities except the ones God has chosen. Those who now rule have been chosen by God."
I guess there's one more thing. I am considering starting a weekly morning prayer session to pray for our government, federal, state, local and finally our church. It would probably be from 6 am - 7 am at the church and I fully expect to pray for Obama, Feinstein, Boxer, Schwartzeneger, Baca, our mayor, not that God will change them necessarily, but that they will make wise decisions, that God will minister to them and bless them, and that God blesses America, as well as confessing our own sin and throwing ourselves fully on the grace of God. It is time that the church as a whole repents and gets serious about God.
I have also been asked why denying them the right to marry is right. Wouldn't outlawing adultery be just as affective in sanctity of marraige? How come we stand up against this sin but not others? Just because we do not stand up to every sin does not make it wrong when we stand up against one. It isn't a hatred of homosexuals. I have worked with homosexuals. I have been cordial. I talked to them everyday, was friendly, and greeted them with a warm smile and handshake. It is not the person I am against. It is the normalization of something God calls sin and making it normal and sin to stand against.
I understand the civil right marches that are starting to take place because they are hearily approving of those who do evil in the sight of God as normal behavior.
On Saturday, we are having a letter writing campaign to write Marine recruits to thank them for being a part of our military. The letters will go into Christmas stockings that will be hand delivered. It is a really cool project that I look forward to being a part of for a while.
The following Saturday is our second annual car show. Should be a good time.
Ok, done for now. But let me close with this:
"1 All of you must be willing to obey completely those who rule over you. There are no authorities except the ones God has chosen. Those who now rule have been chosen by God."
I guess there's one more thing. I am considering starting a weekly morning prayer session to pray for our government, federal, state, local and finally our church. It would probably be from 6 am - 7 am at the church and I fully expect to pray for Obama, Feinstein, Boxer, Schwartzeneger, Baca, our mayor, not that God will change them necessarily, but that they will make wise decisions, that God will minister to them and bless them, and that God blesses America, as well as confessing our own sin and throwing ourselves fully on the grace of God. It is time that the church as a whole repents and gets serious about God.
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