Sat, Jan 19
... Missionary dating?
So I'm supposed to date now to make connections within the church. At least, that's what it sounded like Craig told me to do last night. :o) It's funny how I can feel as at home--if not moreso--at a meeting of the parent sponsors for the senior high youth group than I sometimes do within the youth group itself. Granted, these are Debbie, Darren, Minako, Janice, and Faye, the parents that I feel most comfortable with... I don't feel this way with all of them. But I love the way I can hang out with them and feel like a peer, not "just another kid."
Anyways, we were talking about how to get the grade 12's integrated into the C&C group, and I was talking about the groups within it. Specifically, I used Anya as an example: how she's my age, but feels older and is in the other "group," partly because she didn't grow up at Foothills. Craig also brought up the point that she's dating someone older, and so she would naturally hang out with the "other" crowd. So, somehow, Craig's mind went back to getting grade 12's integrated, and some other thing we'd been talking about in that context, and he said, "So maybe that's what you need to do to make them feel welcome." Darren, Stuart, and I all started laughing, because from Craig's description, it sounded like he was saying that we should date older people in the C&C group to get the grade 12's connected.
So, yah, it's less funny in the explanation, but it was funny at the time. I guess you had to be there. :o)
Someone made the comment, though...
"How much work would still happen in our churches is the Holy Spirit was taken out of it?"
The answer should be "none," because we should be so utterly dependent on Him that we do nothing without his strength, and we're only involved in what he calls us to be involved in. That's probably not true, though. More often than not, people do what they're not called to do, just because no one else is doing it, and it needs to be done. Too much of what's done in the church is done "for" God, but not done by God working through those he's called specifically for that task. If the Holy Spirit was taken away, far too much would still go on.
infinite || abyss
posted at 10:15 p.m.
