muffins

inspiration's been everywhere today... including school.

i was invited to try and figure out some logic homework at moonbeans by jocelyn. 

i went and we kind of were all over the place. our logic skills are... man. we need tutors... 

"i'm gonna get this thing i got last time... it's so good. it tastes like fall."

"like what?"

"it tastes like autumn! what are you gonna get?" she asked.

"a muffin."

on monday we were asked to get together with someone we really knew at destino and tell each other's blindspots... so we could grow... well... i partnered up with one of my old pals from my familia group. he said i needed to seek out friends. to pursue. what does jocelyn say to me today? "pursue friendships..." she then gave me a rundown of my personality. she said she told one of our pals, "you need to have one on one time with adan to get a sense of who he really is." she is right about that. i shut off when there's a lot of people... and i become aware of it so i go super analytical and i lose myself. 

"HOW DO YOU KNOW!"

"Friend, I know you," she replied.

"Agh, I feel like I've pursued... everyone... and no one cared," I said. 

Well. I. Pursued. The. Wrong. People. 

I came to the conclusion that I am going to be in serious prayer about 1 on 1 discipleship. 

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I was reading this blog... and the guy was saying things that made me question the church... all churches. The writer brought up true statements like, "God is omnipresent therefore he is everywhere. In everything. And people experience him in different ways." I understood that but where he was going with it was something I didn't get... 

He said that not everyone sees God at the church... and are they bad for that? are they bad for straying from the church because they experience God elsewhere. For example, being alone. Praying alone. Praying... worshiping because YOU want to and because it is an intimate connection with God. i felt so much judgement too, he basically said people should do most things alone because that's how a personal relationship with God works.... ? it isn't influenced by someone else... because you wouldn't pray because everyone else is praying. Scripture says to pray/fast on a more personal/secretive fashion, right? 

I don't see a lot of things wrong with it but what I do think is that I couldn't do it. I know where the guy is coming from but I think people ultimately need guidance. Because

I need guidance. 

I need accountability. 

I believe in community even if I don't live in community. 

Anyway, I feel like I would say his whole blog (an argument) was valid... even after his premises were true (I agreed with over 96%)


ARGUMENT = Valid but unsound

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LOGIC BREAKDOWN.

"Christ calls us to be the salt of the earth. But what happens to salt when you keep it in a container? It starts to stick together and becomes a useless clump. This is what happens in too many of our churches. We clump together as Christians, only serving each other and our building, instead of spreading ourselves out as we were meant. We are the salt of the earth. Not the salt of this particular block."

Conclusion 1:  "We clump together as Christians, only serving each other and our building, instead of spreading ourselves out as we were meant."

Conclusion 2: "We are the salt of the Earth. Not the salt of this particular block."

There's the hole. His Argument would be Valid and sound if he said, "We are the salt of the Earth, and the salt of this particular block." 

serving and loving one another (our church) is being useless? we are building each other up.