So I have been thinking a lot the past few days, and there is a few things I would like to share with you although I want to go ahead and forewarn you that these things are coming from the thought and mind of Landon Wells so they might be a bit askew for some people to understand so grab a big tall glass of sweet tea buckle your seats and get ready for an adventure though the eyes of me, Landon Wells....
First thing I want to bring up is this on Thursday I was asked a question by my speech teacher that really had no right answer. at least it didn’t in my mind I thought of this question as more of an opinion question a question that if you ask yourself you will find your mind go back and for worth between answers caught in this question of yes and no I began to break it apart a bit my look at both sides but before I tell you what I was thinking I think I should first tell you the question he?..... the question was ... Mark Bauerlein internet, iPods, clocks, airplanes, cars ) EVERYTHING that you know of that could be considered technology just stopped working all together it no longer worked and there was no way to fix it could we survive as a human race? Could we plant our own food? Live without power? Could we as humans survive when the sun sets? this is how I have come to answer the question my professor asked me I think that ( as a whole ) we are the dumbest generation to the older folks in this great nation in the since of living off the land like back in the good old days and not having to rely on other people to survive BUT on the flip side old folks now days can survive here but they are considered the dumbest people on the earth for the technology world we have today so it’s a growing world and people are going to change with the environment and find a way to live. Every generation from here on out I believe is going to call the one before it the dumbest so this is a lose lose situation
Secondly I want to tell you and I would love to have your feedback on this for I could be wrong but in my mind makes sense ok here we go ... people that call them self’s Christians these day are so sketchy to me I don’t really understand how they can call themselves Christians when they have never read the bible for them self’s they go to hear sermons but as soon as they leave it’s like they were never there it’s like these people go around claiming to believe in Christianity but don’t profess his name in every aspect of their life its almost like they want the badge that says I’m a Christian but I don’t act like it ? I don’t understand it at all today after bible I stayed back after class to talk with my professor who has challenged me every day of his class asked the tough questions and made me think real hard about things to tell him that by one of his assignment I now have a million questions to ask him I also told him that I am not a Christian... he stopped for a second and looked back at me with this WHAT!!?!?!? kind of look on his face before I gave him a chance to respond I told him this I said how can I claim to be a Christian when until this class I have never read an entire chapter in any book of the bible? how can I claim to be a Christ follower when the only thing I know about god and his teachings is what other people have told me through sermons and classes such as yours I said I’m sure everything the preacher says is true and I know the versus come from where he says they do because I can look those up myself but how can I do what god says in Matthew: 16 15-16
15 He said to them, “Go into the entire world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
how can I " go and preach" when I myself do not know anything when I have such little knowledge about Christianity itself I could be teaching wrong things and not even know it! I said I believe everything I have been taught by preachers and I believe that the text we have is the inspired word of god but I am not a Christian because I cannot do what I know is God's will without more knowledge . his response was not what I was expecting him to say he said this to me Landon, it’s clear to me that God himself is going to direct you on the right path" he said "I think that you now understand something that most people in this class don’t and I respect that keep on keeping on!" "you will learn a lot if you keep it up" we shared a few more words before it was clear that his time was up and he needed to move on to his next class and before I walked out he told me " oh and Landon any of those questions that you have be sure to write them down so we can get together and I can help you understand them" I left feeling better about things knowing I was on the right path and that he would help any way that he could. Do you agree with the way I was thinking?
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