Friday was cell group night
Going in I was really distracted about softball and coffeehouse and worship night and school and 4:24.
WE MADE TACOS that were superly awesomely delicious.
It was a bit weird having a discussion on prayer and being joyful.
There were a lot of new people who came that weren't Christian.
It caught me off guard
As I started talking to them it really surprised me how open they were and how much they really wanted to know about God.
They wanted to come to church and the weird thing is they thought "they weren't allowed" because they weren't "Christian"
Some of the questions they asked seemed so obvious:
How do you know God loves you?
Where does it say that we're allowed to come to church?
How do you know God is listening to your prayers?
How come people I know who pray say that God isn't answering?
How do you turn Christian?
How is Jesus and God the same?
Which one is more powerful?
One guy saw the HUGE LCD SIGN outside the church and decided to come play basketball. (WOW the sign was actually USEFUL and not a complete waste of money)
and then someone asked him to come to fellowship and he came by himself!
WOAH
Its funny the people who participated most in the discussions were the new people who didn't know anything about God. They made the conversation real and you could tell they meant what they said even if the answers were "typical."
I could really see that they were seeking God EARNESTLY and THIRSTILY.
God brought them to a place where they could have their hearts open to him. No prejudices or skepticism, not distracted by other things.
Just the curious innocence of a child.
sometimes they'll get the wrong idea.
One person is really into doing good he sorta thinks that we do good for the sake of it hes still confused about how God fits into it.
The night really made me realize how much we ASSUME people know what Christianity is about and how little they really know and how a lot of what they think it is, isn't true.
If we could get over the misconceptions in our head that if we start talking about God people are gonna hate us, we can really be the light God has called us to be.
Its actually hard to find the truth with all the "Christians" out there. No one can tell which ones are really CONNECTED TO GO and KNOW him and which ones are just.... not
Cuz really if you look at it from and outside point of view its all the same.
Thats why we get owned as criticized as "Christians"
Cell group night was really refreshing for me.
I'm used to people having complicated epistemologys on why they don't believe in God
or people challenging my views and teasing me.
I feel that I always need to have an argument to defend my faith.
It felt so weird not always having to be so defensive.
But it also made me realize I shouldn't be defensive. Even if I have a good argument, people will always believe what they choose to believe. There is ALWAYS another theory or idea.
The only way to show the skeptics of our postmodern culture that the immaterial is more real than the real. That people are more than complex machines of causality . That there is an absolute truth and right way to live. That the God of the universe created us with a purpose...
IS to live out the truth.
SO
Let your faith stand strong sometimes you don't have to provide an explanation. Sometimes your actions explain everything.
Its hard I know, its something I'm working on too and getting a little better as each day passes by.
