on next summer...

[onfireforhigher]

So... since May, I've been thinking about what I want to do next summer (I only thought about what I wanted to do this Fall since the end of June!), and one thing has been foremost on my mind, Houston's First Baptist Church's Intern Houston project.  I had met the guy in charge (Jarrell Altic) at a weekend conference in may. and we talked about it

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[mister_wolf]

I am sure that just staying in the Houston-based internship would be sinful (for anyone who knows what he must do and does not do it, for him it is sin)

I'm not following your logic, here. Why is it sinful not to go to Kenya? Because it is less expensive?

[undiluted_one]

Look at the parenthesis. That answers your confusion.

He's saying that he knows what he must do and that if he chooses to go against doing what he knows he should do, he'd be sinful. He's referring to James 4:17, which states, "Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins."

[onfireforhigher]

ah, thanks, Dana.

[onfireforhigher]

It's not so much a logical thing as it is a mystical/experiential kind of thing. I look at the one choice (staying in Houston) and it feels wrong, I look at the other choice (Houston, Africa) and it feels right.

[mister_wolf]

I can't fault a man for following his heart.

The reason I ask is, I'm sure I don't understand the situation, and the organization's web site doesn't really help me much. But a religious organization asking you for lots of money in exchange for the privilege of working for them, which raises a red flag for me.

But you know the situation better than I do. So follow your heart, but keep your eyes open, okay? Especially if they start serving Kool-Aid. ;)

[onfireforhigher]

oh sure, I can understand. Mission trips are usually like that, especially overseas ones, due to the cost of airplane tickets, hotel stays, things like that.

I will indeed keep my eyes open.