Interesting

I really don’t know how to start this one, perhaps I should start at the beginning. This morning, when I woke up, I had an emergency call on my cell phone. One of the clients that I manage had a server down situation (now this is not a good thing, especially since I am supposed to meet my friend today for lunch). I checked out the server and it appeared to be working correctly and I contacted my boss to find out the whole story. All was good after a server reboot. I meet up with my friend and he took me to the Olive Garden, for the “Never Ending Pasta Bowl” which is basically an all you can eat pasta. It is one of my favorite things, Fettuccini Alfredo, I can usually eat about four bowls before I leave. Well, we talked for a while, and he had some good news which kind of scares me due to some of our conversations today. First, his good news is that he has taken over the youth group of his church, which is really cool, however… he has one minor problem, he doesn’t always say what he thinks. I don’t know if this is because he is overly excited and thinks that he has said a vital word, or if he is thinking far enough ahead of him that he misses words that are needed. Eh, it could also be that I need to clean out my ears, but I thought I had already done that. He also has a few ideas that are very scary for a new believer, or even a old salty Christian.

One of his statements is that, as Christians, we are not to think about the “Law” or the ten commandments first, and that it is a good thing to be in a sinning position. Now, he later explained that he said “It is a good thing to realize that you are sinning.” He further explained that it is because then we are able to ask for forgiveness because we all sin, and that there is no way that we can go a day without sinning, and if we are in a state of realizing this we can keep asking for forgiveness. I agree and disagree with this… first, it is better if we don’t sin, I realize that we won’t be able to do this, however, the Law should be the first thing on our minds. Otherwise, we will do whatever we want and then just simply ask for forgiveness, which doesn’t really bode well with God. Would it bode well with you if someone did something mean to you, asked for your forgiveness, and then did it again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again. I don’t think so… “1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.” This basically tells me that it is more important to attempt to follow the law, then to ask for forgiveness. Yes, we are going to screw up, no we shouldn’t think of it as the end of the world, but it should be a big thing to us. I believe that we should think of the law first, and the forgiveness of God a immediate second. The next issues that I had with his comments I believe is a cause of our different backgrounds. He states that he wants to question the Bible. Now to me, this means that he wants to doubt the Bible, which he can’t do since he is in a position of ministry, however he says that he wants to ask why is _____ like that. This is just fine as long as you don’t sit there and say that the Bible isn’t correct.

I went to class and then it went well, didn’t do as well as I like, and then I basically confirmed a diner with a friend tomorrow whom I haven’t seen for a long time, it should be fun, we usually have the fight of the spices, I am curious as to which spices we will be fighting with. Also, I talked to my friend Chris, and he is going through some things right now that I think would be hard. Although, I have to say that he is really handling it rather well. You see, one of his brothers left home (he is eighteen now and wants to move out on his own), and he moved in with Chris and Marie, Chris’ wife. Now Chris is doing something really smart, he is helping his brother, but also making sure that there is a time limit on the situation. Most people will get caught in a helping situation, but won’t say at this time you need to have your own place, and get stuck with relatives for MONTHS. I give my friend Chris mucho kudos on this issue. I hope that our schedules clear up soon so that we can spend some time together, I miss playing around with him and his wife. They are such nice people that it is a break from what I consider reality, especially if you read my previous post “Disaster from All” which is my normal day sometimes.

Well, I think that is about enough for now, this is Eric saying, “God Bless!”