We met so many students at our table/kiosk and lots of them joined us for our kickoff BBQ. We had about 140 students gather over food, sports, and conversation.
Our returning students got to meet and greet and connect with so many of these new students. We had a joy in hearing their stories, and making new friends.
I got to meet 4 Chinese exchange students, we had a great conversation about God (they were a very captive audience), and I got to pray with them that God would reveal himself to them!
Our leaders had many positive stories from the BBQ, thank you for praying and supporting us!
This week I did a week long course at Carey Theological College in Spiritual Formation. I learned about deep introspective and listening prayer, how to better hear the voice of God as I read his word, and I learned a lot about what God is doing in my life.
During my course I wrote a song of lament based on Romans 7 and it fills my joy to sing it. You can email me if you'd like to send you a copy of the roughly recorded song.
Here's some quotes from a book from my course that I really appreciated:
We do not find our true self by seeking it. Rather, we find it by seeking God.
Paradoxically, as we become more and more like Christ we become more uniquely our own true self. As we shall see in what follows, there are many false ways of achieving uniqueness. These all result from attempts to create a self rather than receive the gift of my self-in-Christ.
Our false self is built on an inordinate attachment to an image of our self that we think makes us special...The basic question we must ask is whether we are prepared to be other than our image of our self. If not, we will live in bondage to our false self.
Having information about God is no more transformational than having information about love.
- Benner, David G. The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery
I also had to fill out 500 questions on situational wisdom, which I found very helpful for future decision making when dealing with conflict/reconciliation/tough decisions. ...however, towards the end of the 500 questions I started to get blurry eyed and was quite glad to have it finished.
We do not find our true self by seeking it. Rather, we find it by seeking God.
Paradoxically, as we become more and more like Christ we become more uniquely our own true self. As we shall see in what follows, there are many false ways of achieving uniqueness. These all result from attempts to create a self rather than receive the gift of my self-in-Christ.
Our false self is built on an inordinate attachment to an image of our self that we think makes us special...The basic question we must ask is whether we are prepared to be other than our image of our self. If not, we will live in bondage to our false self.
Having information about God is no more transformational than having information about love.
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