Post your studies!List of Articles studies "But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,' declares the Lord, 'because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares." --Jeremiah 30:17 (NIV)After the horrible past few weeks that I had in the first part of 2008, having been kicked out of where I lived due to a questionable landlord, nearly losing my job due to lack of documented information, and the worst experiences with "normie" Christians (providing the most amount of pain and suffering even the landlord couldn't manage to inflict!), throughout that time, if you have kept up with my blog (http://the-nordic-one.livejournal.com ) you have found that time and time again, the local and long-distant freaks have continuously shown the love of God to me, even if many of them don't fully know (or even want to know) what that is. I have seen the Church demonstrated over and over again through the actions of these wonderful and very colorful people, people that wear mostly black, hang in cemeteries, eat freaky food, listen to music that might kill some of you, love things like bats, scorpions, ancient cultures, detest sunlight and many "happy things", and think that Scrappy Doo was a horrible mistake in recorded history."And all that believed were together, and had all things common" --Acts 2:44 (KJV)Why should I go to a church that is no longer relevant, especially if I am not wanted there anyway? Why should I live the legacy of Jeremy (may God rescue him, please! see http://valsignalandet.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/ppowell/text.cgi?path=studies&name=justcauseidontlooklikeyou.txt for reference)? Why should I avoid these people that have shown nothing but total unmerited love to me even if they're so "unacceptable"?When I was younger there was a group of people affectionately called "The Misfits". People deliberately avoided them because they were so "weird", even Christians avoided them because they were so "weird" and "uncool". Nice job, church. Sadly, I did the same thing. Nice job, Phil. It wasn't until later on that I realized and appreciated that these people, with their "weird clothes" and "weird conversations", were far more true than the plastic Barbie society to which I so badly wanted to belong. Nowadays, I am repulsed by that same society and cling to my "weird clothes" and "weird conversations". Last night I freaked people out when I talked about eating goat last night at the April Those Who Munch (see http://community.livejournal.com/those_who_mourn for more information) (though I was impressed that one of the guys started getting into a conversation about eating animal brains and the unhealthy effects of it - yes!!!) If I could go back in time and thank the "Misfits" for their true showing of the Kingdom of God on earth, I would do so in a heartbeat.Thank you freaks. Thank you all. And most importantly, the God I know thanks you too.
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