i'm so hollow baby
last night i was slightly discouraged. we normally average 50-60/week at first@night. last sunday we had 30 and this sunday we had 25.
i know i know - some of you will say don't focus on the numbers - easier said then done. numbers do mean something - they don't mean everything but they mean SOMETHING. i don't care if we get big but i do care if we disappear.
on the positive side there were 3 guys who said they would start coming to bible study - that has never happened any sunday before.
last night i talked about love - jacob falling in love w. rachel - so i played a clip from big fat greek wedding and then later the song "goodbye my lover" by james blunt - very very sad break-up song. he conludes the song by singing "i'm so hollow baby" over and over.
interesting point - there are 3 stories in the bible of women coming to draw water from a well. and they all have something to do w. jacob. jacob's mother rebekkah met isaac's servant - jacob met rachel - the samaritan woman and jesus met at a well named "jacob's well".
the women all came to draw water but were drawn into love. people come into our lives for different reasons - we need to draw them into god's love for them.
"The church is a single subject w. Christ not only synchronically, at every temporal point, but also in its totality diachronically throughout the entirety of history. It has always remianed a subject identical w. itself, a statement which is theological, not historical. This is why the church bridges the hermeneutical chasm seperating today from yesterday." - Volf, 50. After Our Likeness.
someone out there encourage me.
i know i know - some of you will say don't focus on the numbers - easier said then done. numbers do mean something - they don't mean everything but they mean SOMETHING. i don't care if we get big but i do care if we disappear.
on the positive side there were 3 guys who said they would start coming to bible study - that has never happened any sunday before.
last night i talked about love - jacob falling in love w. rachel - so i played a clip from big fat greek wedding and then later the song "goodbye my lover" by james blunt - very very sad break-up song. he conludes the song by singing "i'm so hollow baby" over and over.
interesting point - there are 3 stories in the bible of women coming to draw water from a well. and they all have something to do w. jacob. jacob's mother rebekkah met isaac's servant - jacob met rachel - the samaritan woman and jesus met at a well named "jacob's well".
the women all came to draw water but were drawn into love. people come into our lives for different reasons - we need to draw them into god's love for them.
"The church is a single subject w. Christ not only synchronically, at every temporal point, but also in its totality diachronically throughout the entirety of history. It has always remianed a subject identical w. itself, a statement which is theological, not historical. This is why the church bridges the hermeneutical chasm seperating today from yesterday." - Volf, 50. After Our Likeness.
someone out there encourage me.
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