Its about time!

I started this blog as soon as I began working at Lanier Hills Church in June with hopes of writing twice a week. As you can see, it is September 17 and this is my first entry. My bad. A little about my self. I am getting married in 30 days!! I am beside my self excited!! My future bride is Bre. We are high school sweethearts and are so excited to be married! I have to most amazing job being the student pastor at Lanier Hills Church in Gainesville. We are the "perfect church for people who aren't." Here is what compelled me to write my first blog.....

I am sitting in Jittery Joes Coffee shop in Midway right now totally wired! I have been cutting caffine out of my life over the summer mostly because I cant afford it. I had to come down here to take care of some wedding stuff so I figured I would stop by and get some work done while I wait for bre to get off work.

I came in and ordered my coffee, sat down and fired up my laptop. It is me and one other guy in here. He is sitting right at 11 O'clock from me typing away and secretly rocking out to his ipod. He has the typical white earphones in and everyonce in a while I catching the head-bob begin. Probably Metallica. I slid my earphones in and am softly listening to none other than Enrique Inglesias's "Dimelo" (thanks FBCA students) when I hear that coffee shop manager tell the Barista "wait, the music isnt on.... go turn on another cd." Me and Metallica guy are perfectly content with our music we have going on but they turn on the cd player and crank it up. As I reach up to crank the volume on my mac to battle what is now rocking out in the coffee shop, I look over and Metallica is turning up his ipod.

How many times in life do we do something just because it is the norm and that is what we are suppose to do... In happens all the time. Most of the time is completley subconscious. You pray before you eat, before you got to bed. At church, it is 3 songs and a sermon. Is your Christian life turing into "oh there is no music?" Or, is it how Jesus viewed it in John 5:19, "So Jesus explained himself at length. 'I'm telling you this straight. The Son can't independently do a thing, only what he sees the Father doing. What the Father does, the Son does.'"

What would happen if more and more people stopped making there walk with Jesus a norm and a formula but instead, seek Him with a real passion and only do what we see Jesus do, not what the world says is a norm for the Christian life?