I'm trying to fill out this application for a mission trip and I'm having the hardest time answering some of these questions. For example:
"Please share your Christian Testimony(include how you became a Christian, the major influences on your spiritual walk and how you grown spiritually in the past year)."
How the heck I'm I suppose to explain this without writing at least five pages? And I hate the term "spiritual walk" or "Christian walk." In Christianese "walk" is four-letter-word. Why don't you ask me, "What is your desire in the Kingdom" or "Why do you want to go to (place of mission work)?
Bah. I hate applications as it is.
It's almost Cha Cha time. Get some for me.
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Be patient, brother, and just answer the questions. We are shortly going to be out of the era of "leisure Christianity" and those of us who have already been driven out into the desert with Jesus, and who speak as the Word speaks, will be released into the world for the final harvest.
Go with God, my brother!
— Romanós
Yeah, good luck with that one.
Just put "get some." That ought to do it.
I didn't mean it as in I will be getting the "some." I ment that you, the reader, should get "some" for my sake. You know, "do it for the Gipper." Because we know how badly old Ronnie needs it.
Is there anything that requires you to state what you believe to be true about the Christian faith?
The trend of personalizing Christianity is an unfortunate one. "Your journey", your "experience", your "walk". "God's special plan for your life".
It gets sketchy when it leads to assuming one's experience qualifies him more than his faith? It becomes a contest of 'who's the best story teller'. Personal experiences are subjective. A pagan could tell me a better account of their spirital walk than a Christian. It would probably be more interesting and equally true. There's no way to quanify anything.
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"how you became a Christian"
I was 100% sinner. Now I am simultaniously sinner (100%) and saint (100%).
These testimonies rub me the wrong way. It's like. At the beginning of this year I was 60% sinner. But I've been doing good. Now I'm only 40%.
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"major influences on your spiritual walk"
Christ and my sin.
ehh, whatever. I understand what they mean, but as you said :"Why do you want to go to (place of mission work)" would be a better question along with a statement of faith.
Yeah, I like what dmh said a lot: "The trend of personalizing Christianity is an unfortunate one. "Your journey", your "experience", your "walk". "God's special plan for your life".
It gets sketchy when it leads to assuming one's experience qualifies him more than his faith? It becomes a contest of 'who's the best story teller'. Personal experiences are subjective. A pagan could tell me a better account of their spirital walk than a Christian. It would probably be more interesting and equally true. There's no way to quantify anything."
dmh, Axios!
— Romanós
Hello my brother:
Perhaps there is something in here that will help...what I mean by that is take this back to them and see what THEY say.
I AM who I AM, just because I say it doesn't mean it's true and just because you don't believe it doesn't mean it's not.
Seems fair enough eh? I'd love YOUR thoughts on my 'poetic idea' though.
your humble servant,
Ancient Clown
"Because we know how badly old Ronnie needs it."
Dear Lord, isn't that the truth.
Michael, I will take your great commission and run with it. I will indeed get some for the Gipper. And for you. Everybody needs a little pick me up. I recommend bourbon.
Hey! That's what you can say!
Q: How did you become a Christian?
A: Bourbon.
Alright strangers,
I'm filling out the application in a way that is truthful and in a way in which I should like a good Christian boy and one who desires to go abroud and TCB. I don't consider myself I utilitarian but in this case I'll write what sounds best, and is true, to sound nice and evangelical for the reader. No big deal. No reason to sound high and mighty and somewhat mystic for the sake of reading our own words. It's just an application.
I did well on your advice Drew. JB is good to me.
Jesu Juva
I like your style.
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