Hello all,
What a long two weeks this has been! I’m just going to get right into it. The last time I wrote I was actually sitting in a class of mine “Church Social Work”! Let me start by saying that if I didn’t go to a Christian college I would not have known that church’s actually employed social workers. That’s sad but true. This class is full of dual students…social workers/truett students. In case you’re unaware… It’s Truett Seminary. I love the lord, I really do but, I am way out of my league in this class. I have to write a paper on what the world would look like in biblical terms. …………………long silence…………………….birds chirping…………..ya I don’t even know where to start with that. I’m hoping I can find cliff notes on the bible. Once again so sad but so true. I’m going to get through it but this paper is going to take some serious work, time, energy, and above all patience.
So I had to write a book review on a book called “The externally focused church”. I have to say that the book itself was so interesting. Youth today have a very different opinion on organized religion. Half the people I meet today including myself don’t identify with one specific religion if anything they consider themselves spiritual. This book talks about how the majority of churches today are more inwardly focused. In other words they use attendance rates to determine their success. The Externally Focused Church talks about how churches should be more focused on their communities therefore regaining the trust of the public as well as the youth today. The idea is that if churches became more externally focused they would restore faith in the younger generations. It was very thought provoking…so I decided to pass it on. I really liked it.
Last week I talked about making a calendar that lists all the things that I have to do. The good news is I did everything; the bad news is I have already filled up a new one. I’m already so excited for summer. On a positive note I do believe I am developing a rhythm with these papers. On to the next is my new saying “Sarcasm”! I have to mention a few people in this week’s blog that have helped me in more ways than one. First…Mr. Anthony Munoz. I promise honey I will start cooking again one day. ;) Elizabeth Horton…I promise I will stop using passive voice and I will spell my words out…hopefully! Finally Jonathan Navejar for letting me interview him twice for a school project. I never knew I had such an interesting friend. :O
I wanted to try and make this blog a little more entertaining so I decided to ask a question for everyone to ponder on. If you could change one thing in the world…just one what would it be? What I mean is if you could stop hunger would you? What about poverty, or abuse? I want to know what you would change and why? If it were up to me I would have to say I would stop world hunger. I would do everything I could to make sure no child went to sleep without eating. I’m so curious what you all think.
I guess that’s all folks…hope everyone has a fantastic week!
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