Monthly Archives: June 2007

Pop Culture

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I am up late tonight after a fun evening of listening to music.  Monday nights the project gets together to watch movies, tv shows and listen to music to learn more about various worldviews and how to bridge to the gospel using secular “art”. 

 Tonight led to great discussion and challenging thought…. thinking through the politics of our nation, to the hopelessness that so many non-believers feel. As a result it is easy to turn to drugs or “love” to try to satisfy the thirst musicians and non-believers feel. 

Music ranged from Pearl Jam to Snow Patrol to Bruce Springsteen to the Beattles.  We ended the night with a rousing keraoke version of Journey’s Don’t stop believin’.  HILARIOUS! :)

Arrival Day

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The students arrived today!  We met up with them in their summer apartments, then they came to our house for bbq and get to know you time.  They are all real quiet.  It will be fun to see them as they come out of their shells during the next few days and weeks.

First impressions are really hard.  Everyone is polite and smiles and says  hello.

One of the big themes for us this summer is real Christ-like community. Moving beyond the polite, getting through the conflict and sin in our lives and loving eachother as we really are, forgiven by Christ. It is a process and is really a step of faith for so many of us.  Thankfully times like this provide a greenhouse environment for that to happen quickly and go deep–deeper than many other relationships anywhere else in our lives. Hopefully, once these students experience what that is really like they will seek it out again and again in their churches.