So three things have happened, and i’ll do you the courteseous of telling them in order. I will do you the disservice of not fully telling you everything yet. and all three of these affect me and interact with each other. it’s kinda cool. No! there’s 4 things. i promise.
1 – I’m getting into a small group at church…. well yes and no. we’re investigating the possibility of starting a small group of like-minded individuals. and one guy is really passionate about and concerned about the crisis of community. and it really interests me as i am getting into the idea of living in the city and getting into a community and other things. I’m loosing the structure of my idea. but i will elaborate on this later, that’s the idea. the point. So this thing that has happened is the idea of community and the crisis of it.
2 – Next there was a church vision meeting last night. It was really cool. a lot of the ideas they were talking about struck a resonating chord in me. something about having a “city of refuge” idea was very interesting to me. I think the biblical reference for this one was… Joshua 21. I don’t know the full concept of this and haven’t researched it yet. But one of the lead guys said a story about how when he was little his house was the “safe house” for all his friends and people. Sometimes his mom would bring home old people and be like, “this is your new grandma this thanksgiving” but the concept of it was really cool. basically i want my city house to be a place of welcome and comfort for people. like if someone from church needs a place to crash for a while, or a friend needs to get out of where ever, or some of my buddies are in between places or jobs or something, I want my home to be a place where people can crash. and Houses are easier to do that with than apartments. But that’s my dream. one of the many.
3- reading “Searching for God Knows What” - and there are soo many things about God, and community and the spirit of christ and the idea of loving others that really connects with me and something i want to connect with and fully embrace, because it is the true message of christ. I will get into this more after i’ve read more of the book. but it’s really cool.
4 – just found out about a website called freecycle.org. it’s about trying to keep things out of the land fill. will also get into this more. boo.
Can’t wait to hear more about the bible study, new song, and the book. It all sounds really cool.
There are many different “Bible” versions today claiming to be the Word of God. Each one tells us that it is the most reliable, most accurate, etc. etc.. But which of them is God’s Word? Since they all disagree with one another, we can’t possibly say that they all are. Can we? Are we to suppose that God has written more than one Bible and that he makes statements in one and then disagrees with himself in another? No, of course not. God only wrote one Bible. How, then, do we go about determining which “Bible” is the Bible? If we look to human opinion for the answer, we will find nearly as many opinions as we find people. One person will like one. Another person will prefer another. Yet a third person will assure us that it really doesn’t matter, telling us that any of them will do just fine. Since we aren’t interested in human opinion here, we need to look to scripture for help in resolving this issue. There are two questions that we will need to consider. (1) Which are the correct manuscripts?
(2) Which is the proper translation of those (the correct) manuscripts?