new thought

It seems this is beginning to take the place of my journal. That could be good or bad.

At any rate, at a party tonight I had a conversation with a guy named Mark, and he brought up a good point, something which I definitely think I needed to be reminded about. Even good things can become idols. The point of Christianity is not the "religious activities" it's Jesus. Without the relationship with Christ you cannot be accurately called a Christian. If Jesus were not who He said He was, that is the Son of God who came to set the world free spiritually, then Christianity has no logical basis and is a complete waste of time. As it is, I believe that Jesus is all He claimed to be, and so I believe that my relationship to Him is of utmost importance.

So this talk with Mark got me thinking about my desire for missions, and to come a little closer to my current life, my involvement with Bethlehem and Navigators and hopefully Campus Outreach. If I am forsaking Christ in what He's calling me to do and I go with a different ministry in a different direction, the potentially good thing that I am doing becomes idolatrous, because I am placing my own desires before Christ. So, do I want to do missions? Absolutely. But I must hold it with an open hand, as Carmela once said, and be ready to drop everything and go a completely different direction if He so calls me. That includes my current thought process on Navs. I follow Christ, I do NOT follow Navs, I do NOT follow John Piper, and I do NOT follow Carmela or Campus Outreach. And I have to continually remind myself of that.

Today was a good day.