Well, we just finished rehearsal this past Wednesday for this year and I've been sick since yesterday. I've been hacking up some pretty nasty stuff, so yeah... please pray for my throat! It's really gross and I'll be on the plane tomorrow to Atlanta to spend Christmas with him there. I would hate to be one of those people that you sit next to on the plane that just continually coughs and coughs away, ya know? Like the ones who do it really loud or in a gross way that it makes you feel uncomfortable?
Anyways, so I have been sick and I noticed how hard it was for me to feel "Christmasy" this year. I'm usually pretty upbeat and positive about the holiday but I definitely don't feel that Christmas spirit that much this time around. You would think that since I'm in missions the thought of Christ's birth would just send me reeling into a state of spiritual bliss and perpetual worship at a moment's notice...nope.
I'll be visiting my father tomorrow in Atlanta and I hope to have a good time with him. I realized after his birthday passed this year that hey...I don't know how much more time he's got left and I don't know how many more opportunities I'll get to see him. He's not a believer and straddling the fence between buddhism and Christianity.
This past January at my new staff training when I asked him questions from a spiritual survey, he told me that he was both buddhist and Christian. "Dad, you can't be both," I said. "Well, I don't believe everything about Christianity. Just some of it." O.k....I guess I can see how you can do that, though it still doesn't make much sense to me.
But the two hugest obstacles for him to accept Christ would be his inability to accept grace and my family.
When I told about Jesus Christ and his grace, the free gift of eternal life, he couldn't accept it. He said, "no, I have to work for it. I just have to work for it." The work/performance mentality is so engrained in his brain that he can't accept the fact that he doesn't have to do anything to gain acceptance and salvation from God. Pray for this stronghold to break. Pray for him to be struck with the depths of his sin so that he'll see how utterly inadequate and useless it is for him to try to work for it. Instead, he needs to just accept it as a beggar taking the scepter from the King.
When I asked him what would it take for him to accept Christ, he said, "you know what it would take? If mom and I got back together again, I would believe Jesus." I was stunned...I was speechless and had no idea what to say...I guess it's possible but I'm not so sure...I guess anything is possible with God but there are a lot of things that need to happen before that can even be a glimpse of something real.
However the case, whether or not that happens, my dad needs to know Christ's offer of forgiveness for sins, regardless of whether or not our family gets back together again. Maybe once he does bend the knee to him, it may be possible. For he will have the power to break the cycle he's been in, repent of his past and be able to come back into that situation anew.
Please pray for me as I go. I've prayed a little bit but certainly use your prayers as well. It'll be good to see him.
I hope you all have a blessed Christmas and New Years.
Merry Christmas everybody!
Anyways, so I have been sick and I noticed how hard it was for me to feel "Christmasy" this year. I'm usually pretty upbeat and positive about the holiday but I definitely don't feel that Christmas spirit that much this time around. You would think that since I'm in missions the thought of Christ's birth would just send me reeling into a state of spiritual bliss and perpetual worship at a moment's notice...nope.
I'll be visiting my father tomorrow in Atlanta and I hope to have a good time with him. I realized after his birthday passed this year that hey...I don't know how much more time he's got left and I don't know how many more opportunities I'll get to see him. He's not a believer and straddling the fence between buddhism and Christianity.
This past January at my new staff training when I asked him questions from a spiritual survey, he told me that he was both buddhist and Christian. "Dad, you can't be both," I said. "Well, I don't believe everything about Christianity. Just some of it." O.k....I guess I can see how you can do that, though it still doesn't make much sense to me.
But the two hugest obstacles for him to accept Christ would be his inability to accept grace and my family.
When I told about Jesus Christ and his grace, the free gift of eternal life, he couldn't accept it. He said, "no, I have to work for it. I just have to work for it." The work/performance mentality is so engrained in his brain that he can't accept the fact that he doesn't have to do anything to gain acceptance and salvation from God. Pray for this stronghold to break. Pray for him to be struck with the depths of his sin so that he'll see how utterly inadequate and useless it is for him to try to work for it. Instead, he needs to just accept it as a beggar taking the scepter from the King.
When I asked him what would it take for him to accept Christ, he said, "you know what it would take? If mom and I got back together again, I would believe Jesus." I was stunned...I was speechless and had no idea what to say...I guess it's possible but I'm not so sure...I guess anything is possible with God but there are a lot of things that need to happen before that can even be a glimpse of something real.
However the case, whether or not that happens, my dad needs to know Christ's offer of forgiveness for sins, regardless of whether or not our family gets back together again. Maybe once he does bend the knee to him, it may be possible. For he will have the power to break the cycle he's been in, repent of his past and be able to come back into that situation anew.
Please pray for me as I go. I've prayed a little bit but certainly use your prayers as well. It'll be good to see him.
I hope you all have a blessed Christmas and New Years.
Merry Christmas everybody!
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