SBC

Someday I too am confused as to how exactly I am Southern Baptist.

Then I remember Dr.Mashburn and recall how if that man asked I would drop everything and charge into Hell blindfolded.

The single best teacher and source of inspiration I have ever had in my short twenty three year old self. And I ended up in his intro to Philosophy class simply because I misread the class abbreviation in the handbook that listed the class requirements.

I absolutely love this article he wrote back for a newspaper in the Mobile area:
http://www.theharbinger.org/articles/plural/christia.html

It is almost a word for word account for his lecture he gives about Christianity in his World Religion class.

I think one of my biggest struggles is trying not to write off other Christians (Southern Baptist or otherwise) as all being fire breathing, extreme fundamental, legalistic loonies that sick to destroy and judge me. It's this sort of attitude that breeds mistrust and destroys cooperation.

Some fundamentals of belief cannot be compromised...but me getting lost in some of the petty things is sad...it's perpetuating that which I am most afraid of.

Ironically enough.

Love God, love others...may seem overly simplified but love, true love can and will change the world. I'm trying to exercise the words liberal and conservative from my vocabulary because most of the time they are just hyperbole used to cause division and fights. It's the whole war rhetoric all over.

Christians aren't to wage a war against the culuture...in a ware you kill people, our job is to show people the live changing message of Christ so that they can know true and absolute freedom from the chains we put ourselves in every day and in so many ways.

The few things I believe in standing for are worth fighting for...but not the kind of fights that are against flesh and blood...but the kind involving a spiritual warfare.

I'm so sick of fighting the air...I want to feel Your love again...be drunk off of it...to just fall in Love once again and get lose in You and share that...show it in my life and then let it overflow.


"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm."
-Ephesians 6:12-13



“It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer


"When attempts were later made to speak systematically about God and to describe His nature, men became more talkative. They spoke of God's aseity , His being grounded in Himself; they spoke of God's infinity in space and time, and therefore of God's eternity. And men spoke on the other hand of God's holiness and righteousness, mercifulness and patience. We must be clear that whatever we say of God in such human concepts can never be more than an indication of Him; no such concept can really conceive the nature of God. God is inconceivable."
-Karl Barth