I'll burn it down and walk away; let the fire warm my back.
Im so re-obsessed/in love with Zao. Got the DVD. Such an amazing band. But I digress from my point in this post.
This weekend was so amazing. Not only alot of fun, but seriously the closest to God I have ever felt in my life.
Ok, to begin with. We went to Grand Rapids to visit Craig and Megan. To see Over The Rhine. And to visit Mars Hill.
Saturday:
We hung with Craig for a while and it was fun and funny. A good time had by all. Then we went and saw Over The Rhine, a band that isnt my normal listening type, but I love them. An amazing folk roots band, and so much better live.
We then went back to Craigs and ate gressy (yum) pizza and then watched Charlie and the Chocolate factory. Then Sarah went back to stay with Megan and me and Craig stayed up to late.
Sunday:
We got up and went to Mars Hill. This is where I had such an amazing weekend. But first I must move back and explain a bit of the last few weeks/months.
We have been moving forward with this thing Nexus recently. This has been really allowing me (and others) to talk about and move forward with this life in Christ. What it really means to us and how it should make our lives look. We have boiled down to one main central tenent, LOVE. God is love, it is what he wants our lives to look like. He commands us to love Him and love others. Thats the bottom line. To love others without an agenda, to show them Him love in how we treat them and to spread His word through love. On top of all this we have been discussing many different things going on in the world. Things in which love is absent. Specifically situations in Darfur Africa and Rawanda. How there is injustice that has happend and is happening around the world, and how does that affect us as followers of Christ? How do we show love to these communities and people? So these are things that are part of how I have been growing in the last while and have been on my mind alot lately.
Back to Sunday. We go to Mars Hill, which is an amazing Church that has boomed and is really doing alot of what we are starting to look at here at Nexus. They are super real about looking at how this life is and what we need to do to live it. So thats the stage of what we are going to. Last week they were apparently talking about the idea of heaven on earth, how heaven is the completion of all the God is and hell is the opposite of that. So there are places and times on earth that are literly hell on earth. So as Christians it is our duty to bring heaven to these places, to show love to people who have never experienced it. So last week they were discussing this in the areana of the community, and how it is to help each other in our community, to just bring all the things that are wrong to the table and to help meet each others needs; and apparently this was an amazing week for them, with thousand of dollars of help being spread around the community to help each other. So this week they were discussing how this looks in the world, and apparently they have been working in Rawand. A place that we at Nexus have discussed. Not coincidence at all, God.
So Mars Hill has decided to take the worst hit area of Rawanda, the hardest hit by genocide in the '90s and the hardest hit from AIDS, and to adopt that are and meet their needs. So they are partned with a pastor who is the president of the AIDs council in Rawanda and with worldvision. They had brough for the church over 1,300 children to support in this area, to help bring support to them and help this area rise up out of the hell that it is. To bring heaven to them.
The fact that I was here when they were discussing the things that have been in my mind and heart for a while. ALL GOD. I could feel his hand on my sholder and heart the whole service. So at the end of it me and Sarah decided to support a Rawandan Girl.
I cannot even begin to express how I felt this weekend. Me and Sarah discussed our feelings about it on the whole ride home, how amazing it was and were we are in our lives/walks and were we think that the church needs to be...etc. It was just so amazing.
Just pray that this is the begining of me really getting my life in line. I have a good mind to discuss and think about this life and how I should live it, but often action is far away from me. I definatly feel God was guiding me this weekend and has put me in a place of decison. He put before me, this is your choice, to move forward as my child, or continue your own life. So we choose to support this child, and it feels so amazing. Pray that we can get to know her and help her see love, see heaven in a place of literall hell.
This weekend was so amazing. Not only alot of fun, but seriously the closest to God I have ever felt in my life.
Ok, to begin with. We went to Grand Rapids to visit Craig and Megan. To see Over The Rhine. And to visit Mars Hill.
Saturday:
We hung with Craig for a while and it was fun and funny. A good time had by all. Then we went and saw Over The Rhine, a band that isnt my normal listening type, but I love them. An amazing folk roots band, and so much better live.
We then went back to Craigs and ate gressy (yum) pizza and then watched Charlie and the Chocolate factory. Then Sarah went back to stay with Megan and me and Craig stayed up to late.
Sunday:
We got up and went to Mars Hill. This is where I had such an amazing weekend. But first I must move back and explain a bit of the last few weeks/months.
We have been moving forward with this thing Nexus recently. This has been really allowing me (and others) to talk about and move forward with this life in Christ. What it really means to us and how it should make our lives look. We have boiled down to one main central tenent, LOVE. God is love, it is what he wants our lives to look like. He commands us to love Him and love others. Thats the bottom line. To love others without an agenda, to show them Him love in how we treat them and to spread His word through love. On top of all this we have been discussing many different things going on in the world. Things in which love is absent. Specifically situations in Darfur Africa and Rawanda. How there is injustice that has happend and is happening around the world, and how does that affect us as followers of Christ? How do we show love to these communities and people? So these are things that are part of how I have been growing in the last while and have been on my mind alot lately.
Back to Sunday. We go to Mars Hill, which is an amazing Church that has boomed and is really doing alot of what we are starting to look at here at Nexus. They are super real about looking at how this life is and what we need to do to live it. So thats the stage of what we are going to. Last week they were apparently talking about the idea of heaven on earth, how heaven is the completion of all the God is and hell is the opposite of that. So there are places and times on earth that are literly hell on earth. So as Christians it is our duty to bring heaven to these places, to show love to people who have never experienced it. So last week they were discussing this in the areana of the community, and how it is to help each other in our community, to just bring all the things that are wrong to the table and to help meet each others needs; and apparently this was an amazing week for them, with thousand of dollars of help being spread around the community to help each other. So this week they were discussing how this looks in the world, and apparently they have been working in Rawand. A place that we at Nexus have discussed. Not coincidence at all, God.
So Mars Hill has decided to take the worst hit area of Rawanda, the hardest hit by genocide in the '90s and the hardest hit from AIDS, and to adopt that are and meet their needs. So they are partned with a pastor who is the president of the AIDs council in Rawanda and with worldvision. They had brough for the church over 1,300 children to support in this area, to help bring support to them and help this area rise up out of the hell that it is. To bring heaven to them.
The fact that I was here when they were discussing the things that have been in my mind and heart for a while. ALL GOD. I could feel his hand on my sholder and heart the whole service. So at the end of it me and Sarah decided to support a Rawandan Girl.
I cannot even begin to express how I felt this weekend. Me and Sarah discussed our feelings about it on the whole ride home, how amazing it was and were we are in our lives/walks and were we think that the church needs to be...etc. It was just so amazing.
Just pray that this is the begining of me really getting my life in line. I have a good mind to discuss and think about this life and how I should live it, but often action is far away from me. I definatly feel God was guiding me this weekend and has put me in a place of decison. He put before me, this is your choice, to move forward as my child, or continue your own life. So we choose to support this child, and it feels so amazing. Pray that we can get to know her and help her see love, see heaven in a place of literall hell.