At Camp...

I swear. At camp I do the dumbest things. This is going to be the start of a whole lot of stuff that I do that is so absolutely dumb.

Last weekend at camp, I tried putting my right contact in three times and each time my contact kept popping out. Finally, I just shoved it in there. All during breakfast, my eye was turning red and hurting like crazy.

As soon as I got back to my room, I took out my contacts and took a shower. I got out and try to put my right contact back in and it still kept popping out. I looked at my eye, and noticed that there was a circle of something in my eye. Yep. Definitely already had a contact in my eye. I threw away some old contacts from the day before and I'm assuming that one of the contacts didn't come out when I went to throw it away. I also slept with one contact in.

I know. I'm the smartest person alive.

I've been thinking about putting up some theological discussions that I've been having with a friend of mine. I know that no one really reads this, but if anyone is interested in me putting them up let me know. There are also some points that I'm not as strong on so I might need help from anyone who reads this. If there is no one, then I guess I can keep writing to myself! Haha.

Gently instruct

Just last night someone who is an atheist asked me about what sort of Christian I am. I responded back and told him that I'm a non-denominational Christian and then I decided to ask him about his beliefs as an atheist. I haven't gotten a response yet.

After being almost finished with my Inter Disciplinary Studies (in other ways of putting it, it's a class about a lot of different isms), I feel like I'm ready to find out about what other people believe and in some way try to get them to think more about what they believe so that I might be able to lead them to Christ. Even though I've been through the class, I know that it still isn't going to be an easy task.

Anyway, last night I was praying about this person and that God would give me the right words. Suddenly, it hit me out of no where. I realized that when I try to talk with other people about their beliefs, I treat it more like an argument. I don't always realize how important it is to be delicate with my words and try not to scare them away from possibly starting up a relationship with God.

I've been reading this book called Letters From A Skeptic and it's a really awesome book about this son who is a Christian and he is writing his father who doesn't really have any strong set of beliefs. Throughout the whole book their engaging each other with some tough questions. One thing I've realized the son does is he is delicate and always trying to show how God is most importantly a God of love who sent His Son for us. The son is presenting his responses and ideas about God as clearly as he can.

To close, "Gently instruct those who oppose the truth. Perhaps God will change those people's hearts, and they will learn the truth. Then they will come to their senses..." (2 Timothy 2:25-26).