Jesus is not a wimp.

there's a lot to be said for beach reach this past week...but i'm too tired to accurately portray how amazing the experience was for me

but just to start you off...as a little teaser i guess...here are some points that really hit home with me this past week (i won't even try to start in on all that we actually experienced and learned and discovered and all the people we met....it's too huge and it deserves its own post...these are just some things that really hit me during the worship time...thought i'd share)

"You are not without direction if you are without answers." -- I / we question God constantly...just because we don't get straight forward answers in our minds doesn't mean He's not guiding us.

"When you wake up in the morning, you are responsible for glorifying God and proclaiming His glory." -- when was the last time that was the first thing you thought of when you woke up...or the biggest priority you had throughout the day? yeah, me too

The speaker stated that when he made a commitment for Christ, he didn't think about eternity. What drew him to the gospel was that day in and day out his life could have purpose, hope,...
--crazy - and personally i think that's true for a lot of people

He also said something along the lines of that the creativity of some people is even unimaginable for us (his example was Disney and all the creativity involved in all things Disney), so why is it so strange for God to have unfathomable greatness? Why is it so strange for us to not understand why God does what He does or to not fully understand all He is?

Worship was so filled with joy - everyone seemed so incredibly pumped up to be in a room worshiping God and experiencing His crazy awesomeness...do you think sometimes we lose that perspective at the BCM? When was the last time you were so excited about what God was doing in your life and just so excited to be worshiping God that you couldn't help but jump up and down or shout for joy? Why aren't we more "crazed" for God? Why do we settle for small amounts of Him each day -- we should never have enough of Him...right?

How cool would it be if even half the people who regularly attended some sort of BCM event would say (and truly mean this) to God: "God, I will do somehting different. I will enact Your change." -- what if instead of trying to plan our own change, we really followed what He had planned -- talk about the easy way out...all we have to do is listen and act out the change He already has planned...but crap...those listening and acting parts are what get us every time

Let's never say through our actions, "That's too much Jesus for me." Let's never settle for a small Jesus...afterall...."Jesus is not a wimp."

I wish I could accurately portray all of that better for everyone who wasn't in panama city with us. The real amazingness was in the relationships formed and practiced...maybe another night i'll tackle expressing those


thanks so much for all of the prayer - God heard and God moved in crazy ways