Goodbye Blogger.

So I have decided to move my blog to new and distant lands. Or, just to a different hosting service. So check me out at
https://amateurpropheteer.wordpress.com/

It will be pretty much the same thing, just looking better and easier to use. (and hopefully encourage me to write more...)

A commentary

So, I'm friends with some amazing people. I am blessed by their friendship and influence. But they are also wise. They have written some things.



One friend I spent 3 months doing a missions school with. He went home afterwards and wrote about his experiences.

"I think the biggest challenge I had was finding people who were genuine and serious about going deeper in their faith. Why is that so rare? I feel like people are so comfortable with where their at in their faith that they aren’t willing to grow.
Is that really christianity? I dunno.
I’m not saying if you don’t get a crazy weird church started you don’t love jesus. I’m looking at the average 1st world nation church community. Look at your life: You probably got a job doing stuff and go to church on a sunday cause you have an interest in what God has for you. So you listen to the preacher, you feel convicted about a few things so you try to change a little bit about who you are. Maybe hi five that annoying hobo. But probably forgot about it by next sunday. I feel like this cycle is much to common and ineffective for the kingdom of God.

I think if we really Love God and want to follow him we should be taking his word much more literally and stop adjusting it to make our lives comfortable."

You can check him out at http://concerningthecommonman.tumblr.com/

Another good friend of man writes about community and how we can make space for people, and he is a huge influence on me in how to do this.
Check this out
"He then looked me in the eyes and asked “so what brings you here?” It was an oddly blunt question. But for the first time in a long time i told a short version of my struggle with church up until my recent falling back in love with the bride of christ. He knowingly nodded and said ‘You know that verse about working your faith out in fear and trembling? Its not talking about you sitting in a dark room by yourself, its talking about you working everything out in a group. So if you don’t have a church you can point to, you need to find one.

Wandering around in the desert is fine for a season but, we weren’t designed to do this by ourselves’"

Also, check his blog out. http://donteattrash.com/

I love different viewpoints and mindsets, and I have so many amazing friends doing cool things I couldn't list them all here. But my point (I think I have a point..) is, how cool is it to hear different ideas and stories and beliefs in a group, and whether or not you share them 100% you agree on enough to still work together?
The community I and these guys speak of comes from DIFFERENT people putting aside differences for the ONE true God. We get to be so much more that way.