Work day this week I threw logs for 3 plus hours. I am grateful for the manual labor. It was warm and was able to use my muscles. I have probably said it before but I shall say it again. I am so very thankful for my parents and grandparents instilling in me since I was a little boy how important work is and whether you like it or not it has to be done. I find if to be very enjoyable for me to get out and accomplish something.
On Friday night I was able to go down to a show with a few friends. We saw Mxpx and Five Iron Frenzy. A couple of old school punk and ska bands. It felt like I was back in middle school in youth group. It was a really fun night!
We will be heading out to our mission trips this coming week. We have 3 teams going to different places, Ghana, Slovenia, and Arizona. I will be heading out to Arizona this coming Thursday morning. We will be going to help do a work project at a Native reservation church. As plans often change in missions trips this is not the originally planned trip and we will not being going into Mexico. But God is in control and he knows why were are going somewhere different now.
This week Dr. Jobe Martin was our guest speaker. His topic was worldviews 101 and how to address them with a Christian worldview. His back story is pretty cool since before being saved at 27 and a bit there after had most every worldview in the book. From everything from the hippie movement to evolution. He definitely had a lot of wisdom on the subject. I enjoyed his class very much as he was very old school American values and how we need to apply those values with Jesus at the center of them.
We spent a lot of time on evolution in the first few classes, as many of the worldviews hold to that belief for how life came to be. Aside from talking about how any evidence that is found points right back to creation, I thought the most important statement Jobe made was that "if we weren't created and we evolved then how was there the fall of man and if that didn't happen why do we need Jesus". I had never thought of it like that before. If we weren't created by and through Jesus then why do we need him as a savior. But that is what is interesting about any other worldview, it always has to remove the creator from the picture and present another way. But Proverbs 14:12 says
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. That is what all these other ways are nothing but a path to destruction missing the straight and narrow gate.
He talked a fair amount of how spiritual warfare is very real and present in not only our country but the world right now and how with things the United Nations is calling for and other things going on in our world right now could very well be End Times events. Now I know this could start to sound a bit like a conspiracy theory. But take a moment and think about it.
He discussed a good bit about relativism (whats right for you is great but it's not right for me) and our culture is moving more and more towards that being the norm. Sadly as Christians I see us adding this mindset into our faith all the time. Cut and dry issues are no longer that way, whether it be movies, music, sexuality, substance, or all of the above.
The one common thing every other worldview has is common with each other is the fact that in some way it makes you the master of your own destiny. Culture would say the same that we are the masters of our own fate. It is sad to see how many people get lost in these lies. As Christians we need to be vocal about the correct worldview. You may be met with responses like "that's not loving" or "well that's not politically correct". Well there isn't anything anymore loving than speaking the truth of a Biblical worldview and if you didn't already know it, you will now because I'll let you in on a little secret.When Jesus was here he wasn't politically correct. Hate to burst anyone's bubble there but when Christ walked the streets in his day he did just about everything that was considered a no no by the Pharisees and the Jewish rulers of the day.
So lets go against the grain, stand out and stand up for what we know is truth.
I love how these words describe what exactly it is that so many people refuse to except or have just not heard yet.
And the pain falls like a curtain
On the things I once called certain
And I have to say the words I fear the most
I just don't know
And the questions without answers
Come and paralyze the dancer
So I stand here on the stage afraid to move
Afraid to fall, oh, but fall I must
On this truth that my life has been formed from the dust
God is God and I am not
I can only see a part of the picture He's painting
God is God and I am man
So I'll never understand it all
For only God is God
And the sky begins to thunder
And I'm filled with awe and wonder
'Til the only burning question that remains
Is who am I
God is God and I am not
I can only see a part of the picture He's painting
God is God and I am man
So I'll never understand it all
For only God is God
Can I form a single mountain
Take the stars in hand and count them
Can I even take a breath without God giving it to me
He is first and last before all that has been
Beyond all that will pass
God is God and I am not
I can only see a part of the picture He's painting
God is God and I am man
So I'll never understand it all
For only God is God
Oh, how great are the riches of His wisdom and knowledge
How unsearchable for to Him and through Him and from Him are all things
So let us worship before the throne
Of the One who is worthy of worship alone
Till NextTime
love Jared
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