Day One Blog One

This is my first blog. Like I said in my profile I have random thoughts. Yesterday I was reading a book called Wild Goose Chase by Mark Batterson. Great author but anyways, I'm like 5 pages in but it deals with following the Holy Spirit. If your reading this and your particular religon, and or denomination does not believe in the Holy Spirit or that it still works today thats not my problem and you may want to stop reading. This combined with a Rob Bell podcast I listened to really got my mind working. You see God has given us everything we need but for many of us our lives are still negetive. Therefore we mope around like a 3yr old who just got told no to watching a cartoon. Which I know is what happens cause I have a 3yr old and there is alot of moping that happens, what is it about Blue's Clue's anyhow. So God tells us no to something, puts a tough situation in our lives wants us to do something we don't want to do and we mope. But why have we become so self confident so self absorbed that even the most high is to follow us. I'm afraid we have, as a Youth Pastor we have an outreach service called Ignite its a preatty cool thing we do once every 9 weeks using video, drama, worship etc. all to talk about a specific topic. So this time our student leaders came up with talking about pride. Interesting isn't it that a group of teenagers can see a problem that even some of the most insightful pastors cannot. What I mean by this is that Pastors and others in the church wonder why church attendance is down, why God doesn't seem to be doing anything in poeples lives, and most of all why our teachings seem to fall on deaf ears. I think pride is the problem we want to do what God wants as long as it fits our plans. We love our Pastors as long as they don't step on our toes. We believe that Jesus loves us for who we are but seem to overlook the fact that he loves us enough to change us. Pride is bringing us down and i think that it is time for that to end. God isn't to be the one doing the chasing we should be chasing him. When bad things come we have to take joy in knowing that even in this God is still there. Perhaps with a country looking for "change" we should be standing up and showing poeple that a relationship with Jesus is the only change we need and really the only one that can fulfill all our needs. But first we have to let him reign over all our life not just the parts we are willing to give him, and then and only then can we move for "change". Its time for the Church to wake up, grow up, and start living the way God intended us to live.