Must See Message

On Mondays I usually download, reflect, and look towards another week. It's a day in which I try to recharge my batteries. I came across this message video in a blog that I read. It is an absolute must watch if for anyone. If you are a Christ follower it will help you better focus your life. If you are trying to figure out the whole "Christ following thing" then you will get a peek into what it looks like to follow Christ.

Here is the link to the website. Suburban Legends
Click on the Video Picture on the lower right hand corner. I must warn you that if you have a dial up connection it will take a long time. Sorry about that. Also, one other thing. This will only be up for a week. This is taken from the weekend service at Granger Community Church...so they will have another service up next week. If you want to skip the opening music, fast forward to about 14 minutes and you will jump right into the opening video.

How Christians Live

I came across this quote in a book I was reading (The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne) and it made me think about my life as a follower of Christ. Maybe it might stir something in you as well. "If you ask most people what Christians believe, they can tell you, "Christians believe that Jesus is God's Son and that Jesus rose from the dead." But if you ask the average person how Christians live, they are struck silent. We have not shown the world another way of doing life. Christians pretty much live like everybody else; they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way. And doctrine is not very attractive, even if it's true. Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death, when what people are really wondering is whether there is life before death. As my teacher Tony Campolo used to ask, "Even if there is no heaven and there were no hell, would you still follow Jesus? Would you follow him for the life, joy, and fufillment he gives you right now?" ~ Shane Claiborne