re-evualate

Sometimes I forget what I aspire to do. It's pretty clear I have somewhat a gift in meeting new people...more specifically Asian people, at least. For some reason, this attribute didn't show freshmen year at all and I was just lonely as hell, not knowing anyone.

lol...not having anything to do post-focus, no where to go? story of my freshmen year.

It sucked when it happened, but it sparked a passion in my heart that I'm so grateful for. It sparked a passion to reach out to the lost. Pains my heart every single time I see a person wondering around post-focus, looking to see if they can spot a friend or just someone to talk to. I'll stop tearing down for praise team stuff and try to talk to the person.

I want to see Hace's on this campus. This quarter, sophomore winter quarter, was the beginning of his great turn-around. Sometimes I lose hope in people or judge them for their actions and prevent myself from being loving to them, but then I remember that ANYTHING is possible.

For those who don't know, Hace was the AAIV president last year. He wasn't part of AAIV at freshmen year, chose the life of chasing after girls and drunken happiness. Multiple God-intervening events happened in his life Sophomore fall quarter, and Sophomore quarter he finally realized he needed to turn his life around. Joined AAIV sophomore winter quarter, and the rest is history.

They're out there. The Harvest is plenty, but the workers are few.

But I need to realize that it's not just a good conversation that these things happen. That's just bandaid help. I need to develop relationships with these people and invest in them.

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"You want to know the deep joy of knowing yourself loved by God?
Lay out your life for another person.
Take a risk with your mind, take a risk with your mind, your money, your schooling."

"Jesus is not standing back and saying, 'Go there.' " He's saying, "I'm OUT HERE. You're in there where it's so comfortable. It's so safe inside Jerusalem, it's so safe inside the church, inside the house....I'M OUT HERE.
Come to me."

"Where are the young men and women who will hold their lives cheap...flinging their lives away for love of him, where are those who will those who live dangerously, ...
be reckless in their love...where are God's men?"

"They're not impressed with us: prosperous, wealthy, safe, middle-class, do-what-everyone-else-does....people...
don't build a church like that!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZUQA-4icSk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZUQA-4icSk

~ John Piper