are you...
a headphone listener who ignores everyone?
a movie watcher?
a book reader?
a chatter box?
a people watcher?
a napper?
a do nothing and sit there and look bored person?
Usually I say hello to whoever is next to me and start to read whatever book I have. Tonight I sat next to a chatter box. He was asking me question after question. This was an older man(I could tell you all about his family and where all his kids live and how many kids they have..) He told me his did mission work in Africa for 12 years while his kids where young. I started to ask him a few questions about his beliefs. To make a long story short he told me some wayyyy bizarre beliefs about hebrew marriage, heaven and Isreal today and all this stuff that confused the daylights outa me. BUT we did talk about baptism. I soooo wished my bible was in my bag and not my big bag that was checked because he was not accurate on some of his scripture references, but I could not prove it. I was sooo frustrated, but the whole while I was talking to this man I was praying for patience... needless to say he does not think that baptism is for the remission of sins and that we dont need to do that. Even though our talk was an "agree to disagree"I was proud of myself for having the nerve to talk to someone about baptism without my bible in front of me... which I have never done before.
so just remember the places we are consumed with our usual routine, we can not just let our light shine, but teach the truth. why do people believe that baptism is just an outward sign? He asked me what i thought about a dying man not being able to be baptized due to medicinal purposes- I told him that I am not the judge that God is, but if it were me I would be glad to die knowing that all my sins are forgiven. He stared at me and said that God is a great judge and that we have hope in him... this statement confused me... humm... ahh well he knows where I worship here in VA and if he has questions that he is welcome to join us.
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Congratulations on the talk! It sounds like you handled yourself well. I'm sort of a headpone, chatter box with occasional movie watching mingled with people observing while sitting looking bored kinda guy. haha :)
I am a want-to-be napper who always sits by a chatter box. :·) I am proud of you. You let your light shine. You left the fellow with some things to think about. That is fine. Mark always manages to have a 'spriitual' conversation on his airplane trips.
I am a headphone and book reading person sans child and a 3 year old entertainer with my child! I flew so much before I was married for work and it seemed like I was constantly sitting next to a chatterbox and that was when I was ALWAYS a napper...it was frustrating sometimes, but enlightening others! Glad you were able to have the conversation you did - very impressive.
What a great opportunity!! He may do more research on those verses now that someone has talked with him about it! That would be amazing if he did! You have such great faith! I can't wait to see you in 10 days!! :)
SO there i was at the airport reading the 4th book of twilight for the second time at my layover. (it was a long one, so there no one was nex to me or around me). I look up and i see a bird eating crumbs. I look back t my book then quickly look back over, WHAT? a bird? in the airport? long enough for me to be confused he has eatin all the crumbs and decides he doesnt like me and trs to fly out the window. BAM! BAM again. What is this bird thinking. I was dying laughing!!!!!!!!! it came back again and was flying in the walk aisle over peoples heads. i think i was the only one to notice. HILLARIOUS! it made my day.
hearing the funny story from you added some fun to my day but seeing you last night and then again this morning made my day. i'm about to come get you and hang out more ~ yip~peee!!!
That is funny, that is nothing like what I was hearing in the message. Glad I read this...I laughed out loud! Maybe now I will listen to the message again. that is something I wish I had answered the phone for!
:( i thought to come and find you in the restaurant but i didn't want to intrude, but at the same time i'm wondering if you left before we did anywho it would've been nice to give ya one more hug of see ya later. love you. i'm thankful for the time we did have it was good catchin up and chatin about this and that. lata. call me anytime!
my parents dog is named charley, and i've been calling her marley to see if she'd respond and really she doesn't dogs are kind of smart. i'll get back to you on coming over after you get in from the airport. :) hugs!!!
that's exaaaaaaactly why i didn't go see that movie, cuz no matter if it's happy or sad, if it's a movie about an animal, the waterworks don't stop for me lol
All done shopping for other people. Thats my favorite part about Christmas. Plus seeing them open presents. I sent chris a package with gifts in it. I am hoping he gets it before new years at least.. haha :)
I am watching two sweet girls tomorrow night for a single mom trying to finish christmas shopping and I can't wait to hang out with these girls, they are wonderful.
Wednesday night I have dinner before church with my other family here in VA. (I usually crash their family get-togethers)
Wednesday night after services... time with my fam. :)
then Thursday is Chrismas! YAY!
Friday I get to go Shopping. I can't to buy Christmas stuff on clerance for next year (seeing as how we have nothing and would of had to pay full price this year) so EXCITED!
Then Saturday I leave to go to OHIO to see my in-laws and her and her!!!!!!!
so i hope that everyone has a wonderully awesome Christmas and a funfilled newyears :)
I recently wrote christmas as x-mas and a christian friend of mine said that I shouldn't cross Christ out of it. I don't celebrate this holiday as his birth, but I also don't see a problem having fun with the holiday season. I was wondering anyone thoughts on whether i need to be careful not to use x-mas?
If it causes them to sin, or turns them away from hearing the truth, I wouldn't use it (see Rom 14, also Paul becoming all things to all men that he might win them), but then, if they thought you writing it out was an endorsement of Christmas as a God-given observance, you're kind of stuck.
Jesus didn't make his disciples follow the rules and traditions of the Pharisees (hand-washing). The rule of not writing x-mas, when Christ didn't put Himself in Christ-mass, is the same, to me. Paul also refused to have Titus circumcised just because some thought he should be. So, they have no ground to accuse you of wrong-doing, but you'll have to judge whether it causes them to sin or is a stumbling block/barrier to teaching in some way, either through including "Christ-" or excluding it.
You're right that there's not a problem having fun with the holiday season, but hopefully your friend understands that christmas (or xmas) should not be observed as a Biblically authoritative celebration of Christ's birth. The traditions of christmas (and most other holidays) can be traced back to pagan rituals anyway. Christmas as a celebration of Christ's birth is a man-made tradition and should not be bound. So I wouldn't worry about x-mas but you might want to talk to your friend further about it.
From dictionary.com:
Xmas has been used for hundreds of years in religious writing, where the X represents a Greek chi, the first letter of Χριστoς, "Christ." In this use it is parallel to other forms like Xtian, "Christian." But people unaware of the Greek origin of this X often mistakenly interpret Xmas as an informal shortening pronounced (ěks'məs). Many therefore frown upon the term Xmas because it seems to them a commercial convenience that omits Christ from Christmas.
So using the 'x' does not cross Christ out. It is a shortened version. :·)
i agree. its something that i think christians always just understand we arent celebrating Christ's birth but family. tho, we should probably be careful that other friends dont get the wrong idea that we are celebrating His birth.
