End of the Semester

This week has been awesome. The final week of the first semester. It is crazy to think how fast it has gone by. Brett Jensen spoke to us this week. He was pretty cool. We had a Q&A with him last night after the fort, and got to dig into some great questions. He talked to us today about several things, one off them was consumer Christianity. It is the idea that Christians look for churches based on what is good for them. Do I like the teaching style here, do I like the music there, and when you no longer like the church you just go to a new one. It should be a commitment. Last week I lost my keys :p so I had to get a new key made. But I got it taken care of and life goes on. Hopefully the key will be ready tomorrow so I can drive myself home. Otherwise I will probably just ride with Kelsey or Hannah. On Sunday we had our Christmas party. We brought white elephant gifts and went out to eat. It was really fun, the gift I brought was a pair of socks that had a walrus wearing a Christmas hat on them. I also bought an eye mask with sunglasses on them. The gift I got had some fruit roll ups, gushers and fruit by the foot. I have eaten some of them. It took me back to my childhood days when these were classic snacks. I was looking at something in Luke 8:9 after the parable of the sower it shows the deciples asking Jesus about the parable and he tells them

Luke8:10 he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

This verse bothered me. It made it seem like the deciples were the only ones who Jesus was really teaching, the rest were just confused. But as Brett was talking today we went to the same parable in

Mark 4 verse 10 it says “And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.”

This shows that there were others who wanted to seek the truth in Jesus teaching. So while Jesus did scatter the crowd and many did not understand him. It isnt always about immediately understanding, but about seeking the truth that is in his words.