“The Church is like Noah’s Ark, everyone expects you to come in in couples.”
— My Mum, on being a single 20-something in the Church.
— My Mum, on being a single 20-something in the Church.
A week or two ago I read a great article by Chuck Blakeman on how non-profits won’t solve poverty. A long while ago I read a brilliant article by Jamie the Very Worst Missionary about how short term missions tend to be a bad move. And some where in the…
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I’ve been dying to write today.
To share with you the amazing things that God has been doing in my life over the past week.If the past seven days have taught me anything it’s that we learn and grow the most in the tough times. I have truly learnt how to…
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As I’m sure is quite obvious to most of you by now, I am female. I am a female who enjoys cooking and baking and summer dresses and cute animals and acoustic music. But I am also a female who enjoys cycling and hiking and gardening. I enjoy muddy forest…
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Right now I don’t have much community in my life. I have fellowship, but nothing like what I had in Stirling, and I’m okay with it. I’m okay with it because God’s working on placing me in a new community.
On Sunday I’m going to go to a church that’s been hiding away at the back of my mind since January. Today I had coffee and good chats with a friend who goes to that church and he told me some really great things about it and I think I’ll be going on Sunday. No church is perfect but this one sounds like it might be the right place for me.
It’s sort of like God’s had it on hold since January and now He’s saying, “okay, now it’s time to finally see what it’s all about.” He’s prodding me, pushing me, and it’s a little scary. It’s a very small church and that’s terrifying. But it sounds just like the sort of church I want to be involved in. I don’t want to be part of a church that I can hide in because that’s not true community, I don’t want to go to a church that puts me in a small group and ends there because that’s not true family. I’m a very relational person, I like to sit down with people and really get to know them over a cup of coffee or tea or a meal. All the people in my life deserve that sort of time and I believe a church family should be like that too.
I got home today and felt a bit down, a little bit sad, but as soon as I started talking to Jesus I instantly felt better, as soon as I considered the fact that He has community for me, wherever that ends up being, I felt strong in Him again; I truly felt what it was to have hope in Christ.
I feel like God has interesting plans for me in Northern Ireland, and I can’t wait to see what those are.
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Next week I have exams on Friday and Monday so I’ll need to be studying. But this also means I’m closer to going home AND jetting off to the states!
Can’t wait to see the fam for a bit :)
I said this Tumblr wouldn’t get personal, but there’s something I need to write about: Westboro Baptist Church.
First of all, I hope to goodness that I will help people see that this isn’t what Christianity is about. This is not the way Jesus wanted people to turn out. God doesn’t hate gay people, He doesn’t hate soldiers, He doesn’t give people cancer, He doesn’t support any form of hate or injustice or pain or bitterness or any form of negativity. It tears Him apart.
I am so tired of hearing these people being called a Christian group.
They are far from Christian.
They are hurting, bitter people who know nothing of love.
It breaks my heart to see children being dragged into this. Such innocence is being covered in so much darkness.
And that idiot who stood there and said that what they believe is in the Bible? Really? Is it? Because there’s a lot more Christians who believe that God is LOVING than those of us who believe He wants us all to die of cancer.
Before I give these guys more publicity than they deserve I want to say this: God is so infinitely loving. We’ll never understand His love, it’s so big. I think that’s where WBC, and so many others, have got it wrong. They don’t understand how God could love us so they twist it into what makes sense to them. Paul spoke in the Bible of how humans don’t have all the answers, we never will. But what we do know is that God loves us. Maybe we won’t understand the fullness of that until we get to heaven, but for now, I want to keep searching for it.
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