Lazy days...
So I stayed at school this weekend, and I'm not so sure that I liked it. I think it was mostly because Emily, Britt, and Vanessa all weren't here, and life is so sad without them. I mean, there's half of my closest friends at school, gone! It's so depressing. Anyway, this weekend has been really lazy, I haven't really done much of anything but sit around and attempt to do homework, but really fail at it. But anyway.
Church was really good today, I think it was one of the best messages I've heard in a long time. He talked about how the church has removed itself from social situations and in the process has taken a condemning stand. We should be standing in the gap and crying for justice, and instead we are condemning those who need our help. We aren't showing love and mercy, we aren't being Christ. Christ has been lost in much of the church. And what's worse is that there are Christians who really do care and really do want to love people and help them, but people won't even consider it because of how the church as a whole has reacted. Ugh, sometimes Christians can give God the worst name. I wish people could just see God as he is and not as the God some people present him to be. He is all about love. The very core and center of his character is love. How can this be communicated? How can I, in some small way, change the impression that the church in America has made? How can I live my life so that it is a reflection of the love of Christ to a broken world? God, give me compassion for the hurting, break my heart for the broken, and let your love flow through my actions, my words, my songs. That a cry of your love and a cry for justice would always be on my lips. Too long have God's people been silent. It is time to take a stand...
Church was really good today, I think it was one of the best messages I've heard in a long time. He talked about how the church has removed itself from social situations and in the process has taken a condemning stand. We should be standing in the gap and crying for justice, and instead we are condemning those who need our help. We aren't showing love and mercy, we aren't being Christ. Christ has been lost in much of the church. And what's worse is that there are Christians who really do care and really do want to love people and help them, but people won't even consider it because of how the church as a whole has reacted. Ugh, sometimes Christians can give God the worst name. I wish people could just see God as he is and not as the God some people present him to be. He is all about love. The very core and center of his character is love. How can this be communicated? How can I, in some small way, change the impression that the church in America has made? How can I live my life so that it is a reflection of the love of Christ to a broken world? God, give me compassion for the hurting, break my heart for the broken, and let your love flow through my actions, my words, my songs. That a cry of your love and a cry for justice would always be on my lips. Too long have God's people been silent. It is time to take a stand...