Today, like many other days, I had a debate with my college friends about God. Luckily for me, one of my closest christian friends is in the same friendship group as me, so we didn't get completely torn apart.
As much as I love my college friends, they are extremely quick to jump on the bandwagon, and disprove anything that they personally don't believe in.
I would very much like to be able to say 'this is wrong', or 'people should embrace what others believe' or 'they should have respected my opinions'. But I think that would be very hypocritical.
You see, I figured that, if the majority in the debate today where christians including me, listening to two non christians talk about their reasons for why sex is right, why alcohol is fine, and why God is a joke, I would most definitley give them a piece of my mind. Probably similair to the way my friends treat my belief.
So, I am sending this message out there, a question really, to where do we draw the line between respecting our peers, and proclaiming that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.
Proclaiming God's word is a fight. There's no denying it. It's hard to help people understand where you are coming from, without basically saying 'what you do is wrong' when they ask the question 'so you think I'm going to hell?'. There is going to be conflict.
To go back to my first point, how can I expect people to be respectful of my faith, and to try and understand what its about, and maybe even be willing to come along to church or a friday night meeting to see what its all about for themselves, when I have absolutley no intention to go and try out any other faith, accept what my friends believe is right, nor be willing to 'come along', whatever it may be.
Honesty, I feel a bit stuck. Especially with friends as firey as mine, where these discussions happen pretty much every week. I guess I'll have to find the balance between love and respect, and being a disciple of Jesus, called to share the good news.
What do you think?
Thursday, 25 November 2010
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Change
'Where you invest your love, you invest your life.'
Whenever I hear this mumford & sons lyric, I can't not think about where I invest my love.
This lyric is the core to being stripped. Do me a favour and try not to think about the Christina Aguilera album from back in the day, but being stripped of what friends at college or family are so content and just with living with.
So many times, I take a step back to have a look at my life and its direction. And so many times I'm unhappy and break down. Break down in my world; cry about it for a period of time, praying, then falling into the trap that now I've addressed the problem, it's fine, done and dusted. Amongst all this, where is Change?
No change is the reason that there are so many of those times I have to look at my life and be unhappy with the same things. I know it sounds simple, but I know for a fact I'm not the only one out there who struggles with change.
We need to go back to the core. Stripped. Start again. Not just, build on top of the problems, or try and edit the problems. You can try and change it yourself I guess, change the things you do, the things that consume your time, but that has proven difficult for me. Until I surrender, I will never change.
Today I got so frustrated to the point where I couldn't even speak to my mum, cos I knew that any interaction would be me shouting, how silly. The reason I was so wound up? Because my dad has lost some of my CD cases. I hate finding CD's with half a case, or no case, or no sleeve. Pet peeve I guess. I'm pretty certain that getting upset over that was a complete waste of my time. A complete waste of my time with no positive outcome. Fortunatley for us humans, when we invest our time and love in something or somebody else, there is only ever a positive outcome.
No wonder I'm so tired all the time, all my energies go into being frustrated or upset, ha.
Blogs are brilliant for self-evaluation.
Whenever I hear this mumford & sons lyric, I can't not think about where I invest my love.
This lyric is the core to being stripped. Do me a favour and try not to think about the Christina Aguilera album from back in the day, but being stripped of what friends at college or family are so content and just with living with.
So many times, I take a step back to have a look at my life and its direction. And so many times I'm unhappy and break down. Break down in my world; cry about it for a period of time, praying, then falling into the trap that now I've addressed the problem, it's fine, done and dusted. Amongst all this, where is Change?
No change is the reason that there are so many of those times I have to look at my life and be unhappy with the same things. I know it sounds simple, but I know for a fact I'm not the only one out there who struggles with change.
We need to go back to the core. Stripped. Start again. Not just, build on top of the problems, or try and edit the problems. You can try and change it yourself I guess, change the things you do, the things that consume your time, but that has proven difficult for me. Until I surrender, I will never change.
Today I got so frustrated to the point where I couldn't even speak to my mum, cos I knew that any interaction would be me shouting, how silly. The reason I was so wound up? Because my dad has lost some of my CD cases. I hate finding CD's with half a case, or no case, or no sleeve. Pet peeve I guess. I'm pretty certain that getting upset over that was a complete waste of my time. A complete waste of my time with no positive outcome. Fortunatley for us humans, when we invest our time and love in something or somebody else, there is only ever a positive outcome.
No wonder I'm so tired all the time, all my energies go into being frustrated or upset, ha.
Blogs are brilliant for self-evaluation.
Monday, 22 November 2010
What?
To begin..
I'll explain why I'm writing a blog. Primarily, I want to be a journalist. I have been told countless times 'There is no money in journalism', 'There's no jobs in journalism anymore' etc. Unfortunatley for me, I think I would be much more suited living in the world about fifty years ago, because of my prefferred career choice amongst other reasons. I was given advice to starts blogging online, and I'd been thinking about it for a while. So I guess this is the way I can express my journalistic flare in life, but also, to give who ever may read this (if anyone at all) a look into the mind of a young christian girl, hopefully that some people reading can relate too. My best friend says I have some interesting thoughts.
I'll be talking (blabbing on) about college, university, decisions, boys, music, family, friends, and most importantly, about being 'Stripped' of the world, and full of life.
I'll explain why I'm writing a blog. Primarily, I want to be a journalist. I have been told countless times 'There is no money in journalism', 'There's no jobs in journalism anymore' etc. Unfortunatley for me, I think I would be much more suited living in the world about fifty years ago, because of my prefferred career choice amongst other reasons. I was given advice to starts blogging online, and I'd been thinking about it for a while. So I guess this is the way I can express my journalistic flare in life, but also, to give who ever may read this (if anyone at all) a look into the mind of a young christian girl, hopefully that some people reading can relate too. My best friend says I have some interesting thoughts.
I'll be talking (blabbing on) about college, university, decisions, boys, music, family, friends, and most importantly, about being 'Stripped' of the world, and full of life.
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