i think i made up that word….
i think my blog is pretty cool. i don’t think this because my posts have anything profound or though provoking. i think it’s cool because it’s all over the place. my last post was about worship teams. i looked at my archives and saw posts about: revelation, dragonforce, barack obama, children singing about barack obama, dating, and pretty much everything else.
usually blogs are themed…
oh well.
leading a worship team once a month is quest has been pretty cool. not only has God been doing some cool stuff in the ministry, but He has been doing some cool stuff in me. one thing that really struck me this week is that i’m playing this song that was one of the first i learned. i practiced the riff and solo for this song a lot back in jr. high. it’s one of those songs i still remember how to play after three years. that was when i was very new to playing in bands. that was when i was new to leading worship. what i learned in 7th and 8th grade worship band will alwasys stick with me though. i’m very thankful and blessed to have had the great leaders in the band and jr. high i had then leading me in my journey.
back to what i was saying… all of what i just said hit me this week after i picked that same song that i had practice a lot when i was 12. now there is a kid in the band i’m leading who has spent a lot of time working on the same song. it’s all different though because i’m the leading. it was one of those, “wow i can’t believe how much i have grown and changed in six years,” moments.
i can’t wait to see what’s going on six years from now!
honestly, i don’t know for sure what all i think about the end times. one big question is about the rapture. what is it? when is it? why is it? is it?
people can get in arguements about it, and people can talk about it all they want. in the end though, does it matter? at some points i have though no, but i am convinced more than ever that it does.
it’s true, no matter what happens, we should be ready for death or the Lord’s return or whatever happens at all moments, but don’t you think you would live your life differently if you thought that one day you would just die or be raptured away, as opposed to going through a time of choas and trouble known as the tribulation? even following God, that’s a lot to deal with.
it seems that theology affects the way you live (yeah, i heard that from someone, but i believe it true). if you live in a world where the endtimes means being raptured away while all the nonchristians suffer, i think you would deal with a tribulation a little differently then someone who believes living in the end times means undergoing hardship while spreading the gospel before the Lord’s return.
all of my life, i’ve been told and given that impression that the book of Revelation is really hard to understand. and in my long 16 years, i’ve heard very few teachings on it. i’ve always wanted to understand it though.
this year, the theme of onething was the book of Revelation. while i didn’t get to go to onething, i watched a bit of it online and have talked to friends who went. let me be clear, i am not going to just proclaim that mike bickle has everything about revelation 100% right and that i’m sold. i’m not. what i am going to say is that i really feel like the book is not some anomoly that the church will never get. in fact, i think it’s crucial that we understand what the book says.
this is post one, if i keep going the post will be too long.
