shiiiiiiinsdey.day.

i need more eve 6 in my life. flip they were good. i'm content with playing lots and lots of basketball today, after mowing lots and lots of grass, after learning lots and lots about how few missionaries there are in the world, in the context of the number of true, following believers and the ones called to missions, but have not woken up to that calling yet. our speaker is jim isom, and were talking about family blessings this week. nobody knows what that means, but apparently were gonna talk about missions. we learned how many times things are said in the new testament, and what the majority of the new testament is about. missionary isn't used in the bible, but apostle is. and they mean the exact same thing. here are some of my notes on 'titles' used in the NT.

pastor- 1
evangelist- 3
teacher- 10
prophet- 14
apostle- 81

or somethin like that. but basically what he was saying is that pauls letters were all about going out and spreading the word of God. which i think is pretty much true... whether 'going out' is leaving home all together, or reaching out to the community, he is pretty sure a LOT of people are missing their call. i see it... he gave some astounding figures with money, basically saying (statistically) if all the people awoke to their calling, they could be supported by the people in other areas (say, business? the providers for the people that leave and need their help) with a little more than one quarter a day. not like people are doing a bad job, but its either not talked about enough in the church, there are not enough opportunities, or there are a crap load of cowards. and the only difference between the cowardly and the courageous (i think my favorite point of the day..) isn't that the courageous have no fear, its that they go despite their fear. i don't wanna think people are cowardly, i think its highly more mis-information that anything. cuz we are capable of AMAZING things. peter not being able to walk on water wasn't his lack of faith in Jesus, it was lack of faith in himself. must work on that for me...

anyways its been a thought provoking day. looking forward to man-group tonight, some cookies, some icedcream i'm sure, and fly genocide. blah.