Johnny
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I just feel compelled to share a story of stupidity then. I was at a party with some people I go to grad school with. We were talking about classic cars and this one guy mentioned that he drives a mustang. This girl said that she can't see over the hood in a mustang and asked how he manages to see over the hood. He told her he had a periscope that he used to drive. She believed him for about ten seconds. The look on her face was priceless when she figured it out.
/sometime I'll tell you about some of the MBA students
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As a Christian male the ideal of purity in a mate is important to me. The thing is that I care about what is going on currently not what happened in the past. I can't really claim to be a virgin, as I was molested as a child. I just don't see someone's past sexual experience as being all that important.
/I'm going to get burried for being a Christian
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Agreed. We try to meet their physical needs before we try to meet their spiritual need. Telling someone how Jesus loves them and as an extension you love them is pointless if they are starving. We recently sent donations to help rebuild an orphanage as well as to dig a well and buy goats for families.
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You are correct in assuming they did it in front of their peers. I'll say a lot of it was probably peer pressure. I personally wasn't in a position that I could afford to donate the shoes off my feet; so I didn't. I felt really awkward standing there in my shoes afterward talking to friends who were barefoot. Come to think of it, when it was done I felt it was handled wrong, but the video from it is pretty moving. (I volunteer in video production as a shading engineer and sometimes as a camera person at the church so I might be biased)
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My church's college ministry did something similar before the earthquake. We asked the students that were at the college worship service to give the shoes off their feet for a village in Haiti. We shot a little video along the way and I love to throw it out there every time it is relevant. www.vimeo.com/7452943
This was done as part of a series we were doing on social justice. Our big thought behind it was "It is possible to do justice and not know God, but it is impossible to know God and not do justice." We are big on a faith that produces action.
That's good charity and certainly appreciated, but, out of curiosity...
Were they asked to donate something in front of their peers? There's a lot to say about peer pressure and outside influence and "doing things for the right reasons," but I want to be sure I'm understanding how that all went down.
You are correct in assuming they did it in front of their peers. I'll say a lot of it was probably peer pressure. I personally wasn't in a position that I could afford to donate the shoes off my feet; so I didn't. I felt really awkward standing there in my shoes afterward talking to friends who were barefoot. Come to think of it, when it was done I felt it was handled wrong, but the video from it is pretty moving. (I volunteer in video production as a shading engineer and sometimes as a camera person at the church so I might be biased)
a lot of groups in haiti are doing the same .
all the ones i saw push religion onto a populace where half are catholic , half are protestant and all believe in voodoo .
these people need food , not more religion
Agreed. We try to meet their physical needs before we try to meet their spiritual need. Telling someone how Jesus loves them and as an extension you love them is pointless if they are starving. We recently sent donations to help rebuild an orphanage as well as to dig a well and buy goats for families.
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tacojohn48Aug 23, 2010
Word feud is spelled this way. It took me a minute to find it in the market searching for fued.
arcookeAug 23, 2010Buried
Gah.. good call.
My nickname on there is "beer" if you want to play sometime. :)