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Writing As Vocation by Jeff Goins on 10/8/2008
I'm honored to once again be featured as a guest blogger on
An Open Apology, a forum where people can share their struggles, questions, and confessions. It's an honest question-and-answer blog, depicting the journey we all as followers of Jesus are on - one in which we go from
Christianity to Christ. I'd try to "unpack" that for you, but you're better off just tuning into
openapologies.org and reading some posts for yourself.
It's getting some great criticism! Check it out
here.
Are you cool enough to be a Christian? If so, do you use your "cool-ness" to sometimes make other believers feel out of the "club"?
Be honest... Jesus is listening.
Sad that people hurt other people, that I hurt people, that I have been hurt.
Sad that everyone is so about themselves that the cycle won’t end.
Sad that I am so about me.
Sad that we who profess to love Christ make no difference in the world.
Sad that labels sting, that I have stung and been stung.
Sad that I want others to feel what I feel without caring what they DO feel.
Sad that I can’t seem to fit in anywhere, that I want to fit so damn badly.
Sad that we can’t hear each other, that I have not heard nor been heard.
Sad that I care more about what others think.
Sad that THAT drives me more than a desire to love.
Sad that I know so f...... much about God and still don’t trust Him….Just an emotional wreck this morning and needing to share.
Sad that I won’t put this on my blog and will only share it anonymously because that’s safer.
Sad and broken this morning….just very sad and broken and praying to stay this way and yet fighting it every step of the way.
I posted a video on my blog (paulvasilko.wordpress.com) that explores this subject. Interesting stuff....
Thanks for starting this discussion, Jeff. It's blowing my mind!
I work with students and every time a new teenager shows up to our student ministry with his 16-year-old ego it kills me. Seriously. I have to really fight my flesh to not snap some quip at him to "put him in his place." It's really hard.
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