i spent another weekend out at a beach camp with these sweet high school kids and a few more that wouldnt fit in this picture. yes a beach camp in november can still be a good time. games, food, hang outs, haunted houses and some serious time talking about faith, hope, and love were on the agenda.
we did it with a super-hero theme, hence some of the sweet costumes in the rest of my flickr pictures.
but we talked about what it might look like if we actually did the faith, hope and love thing. in real life. if we actually loved, and actually hoped and had a little faith. what do you think it would look like?
apparently there is some guy in the states who decided to live out the old testament for a year. he even convinced someone to let him "stone" them, throwing pebbles at them in central park or something.
anyway, as jason, dan and i were sitting in the hot tub, jason asked, why someone/everyone dont try living out the new testament. basically faith, hope and love.
why would it be an experiment, and not the norm? would God just kind of laugh and say "stinkin took you guys long enough to figure it out"
i dont know. any thoughts out there as to what it might look like if we used our 'super hero powers' of faith hope and love?
to those of you who were there, thanks for the sweet weekend. for those of you who werent, let me know what you think...
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5 comments:
cinnamon buns are so good.
agreed.
what better way to show love than making cinnamon buns.
best way i can think of.
oh, and doing more pranks of love. i'll take a sticky note on my window over a 5am dump anyday.
the cinnamon buns there are the best i have ever had in my life. no joke!
faith, hope & love hey? here's my take on it:
a couple things that came to my mind if we lived those out is that we'd all be a lot more selfless and a lot less insecure with ourselves. then, we wouldn't be afraid to do things that could radically change the way we relate to people and how Christ could be reflected through our lives.
this is my really rough off-the-top-of-my-head logic with that...having faith and hope in God & His promises, i think, would put everything else into perspective... especially our view of ourselves. we wouldn't need to seek to gain anyone else's approval of ourselves cause we'd (ideally) always remember that ultimately only His approval matters. then maybe the security that comes from knowing that (and again, having faith and hope in the promises He's made), would fuel us to have no fear in showing love back to Him in whatever way it would take, most likely by living a life that is so backwards to what we're used to and living in a way that honours Him through practising the two greatest commandments... to love Him with everything we are and to love others as ourselves.
hello run-on sentences...
but anyway, definitely easier said than done...
Sorry Kim,
the best cinnamon buns are at a bakery in wasagaming, by riding mountain, I think its called white house bakery. amazing.
wow, that jason guy sounds wise and a deep thinker. I bet he looked pretty good in that hot tub too!
J.
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