just a rant

2009-01-27T05:18:00.000-08:00

So I just finished listening to one man decipher another man's sermon. Can I tell you how interesting that is. Thanks to a friend of mine I have discovered fightingforthefaith.com, and it rocks. He was talking about how ministers misinterpret scripture through isogesis interpretations, or not from God but borderline heresy. I find it interesting that people run to false teachings, like how 1Samuel 14 is a story on how God told one man to build a church, as opposed to a story of how Jonathan trusted God to fight for Israel in the face of the Philistines and in his faith was delivered from their hand.

Sadly enough, this is a church of thousands, where the minister also says that it isn't the job of ministers to feed the members. That stands in strict contradiction to scripture though, right?

What does JESUS say in John chapter 21? When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Peter, "Peter, son of John, do you truly love me more than these?" "Yes Lord", he said, "you know that I love you." Jesus said "Feed my Lambs." I guess you can judge for yourselves whether this minister is correct or not, I think it is simple.

I have decided one thing though, If I were to start my own church I would carry with me three people who I know would keep me accountable in all things. I also think that every new church plant should follow that same sequence.

So here it is; Dane Valdetero, he has always tried to keep me accountable, that what I say might be what I do.

Zack Rearick, I have learned that he holds a firm appreciation for taking scripture and presenting it only in the light (or context) that God intended.

Brad Barnett, because he seems to know what it takes to keep you ethics in line and I would know that in a situation like ministry ethics would be tested finely.

So to that end I am glad to know that I have people that I look up to, but it has to go beyond looking up, and actually become accountable to. I wish ministers would think about their short comings before they start churches, but hey, they just haven't read Jeremiah 23, right Eric?

My first blog

2008-12-16T07:13:00.000-08:00

I am not really a blogger so, I beg you, please bear with me. If you happen to be a part of the young ones I help grow up, you will know I have previously deemed the (overly silly) word "blog" to be "cupcakes". I mean if we are going to be silly, let's be silly. Now on to what is in my head at the moment.

So I was thinking last night about what we could do as a nation to fix the economy, and I figured it out. We can all stop being stupid. I have a friend who recently lost his job, problem, his boss apparently is stupid. I see that we rack up dollars upon dollars of needless, pointless, worthless, credit debt and when push comes to shove we punish those beneath us to fix our problems. I work for a company now that is in the midst of trying to determine what is the best approach to the dramatic decline in our economy that is slowly but surely hitting the printing industry. You see our problem isn't inefficiency, or wasted time and materials, rather a lack of sales.

So one should conclude that we have a problem in "SALES" right? But it seems that when the high, (sometimes) over-payed sales reps cannot do their job productively, the people who are doing all the work suffer. I have concluded that when we, (and by we I mean the nation of workers), step up and say that these high salaried non producing sales reps, supervisors, VPs and Presidents, CEOs and so on have no right to continue working for their money when they aren't working at all, something may actually change. (Listing those titles in no way is representative of the higher ups in our company. They too used to be workers and understand where our problem lies within the company.)

I wonder how long it will take a nation of people who have been given everything, all the way down to an African American President who isn't really African American anyway, to look up and realize that we have no one to blame but ourselves for being sheepish enough to follow suit with creditors and lenders stealing our money while we continue to over spend. I only mention Obama to say that we beg for the things we think we want, but sit back and take it from behind when it comes to the things we need to survive. Obama promised change, and I will respect that promise (as far as a politician's promise can be respected) until I see otherwise. I do have to say though that we have made a mess of our country, this great country that we brutally and forcefully stole from other human beings who apparently weren't high enough in the lifeboat to make it. Why are we sitting here waiting for a MAN to come in and fix it. It is our responsibility as people and citizens to stand for what is correct and stop lying down in front of opposition.

When I was in high school, and even now in some instances, if you fell at the feet of opposition you were kindly called the oh so offensive word "pussy". Is that what we are? Are we a nation of babies who need mommy's hand every time something goes wrong? Do we want to fix the economy or do we want the economy fixed for us? Put down the credit cards and spend your HARD earned cash and make the people who screwed us in the first place suffer. Credit was given as a way to mend a wound dolled out years ago during the depression, and we have allowed that same bandage to become a weapon. A weapon I might add that seems to be continuously used in friendly fire.

Do you really not know why I refuse to vote? Why would I vote for a President when I live in a country full of people who make irrational decision in their everyday choices, and carry those same irrational decision into the voters booth every four years, just to hear them complain because THEY once again made an irrational decision? I have enough sense to know that in this country my voice doesn't matter on paper, it only matters in person. Stand up for yourself and stop crying like a coward. The lifeboat is full and we are not in it. We are called to step aside and give our seat on the boat up.

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last and many who are last will be first. Matthew 19:29-30

And people say Christians are like sheep. Mirrors aren't that expensive.

A moment in my head

just a rant

My first blog