What a long week!

That is how life goes. You do something’s for others or things that may not necessarily get you ultimately fired up for life. But then you get to do something for yourself, something you love, and something that brings you a bit of happiness before you head back to doing the stuff of life.

My week is like this. I'm helping the team with VBS all week. It is in my job description and I'm somewhat excited about the curriculum that we picked. However, of a list of things that bring me a ton of joy, VBS would not be on it. So to add a lump of sugar onto my hectic week, I am going to go visit half a million friends of mine in Philly.

One half hour after VBS comes to a close Friday night, Jamie, Michael and myself with start a long over night adventure to Philadelphia, PA. While there, we will be joining over a half a million people in what is sure to go down as the largest show of support to end world poverty in the history of man.

For those of you who have no clue what I am referring to, visit www.live8live.com or watch MTV or VH1 anytime on Saturday. There are real solutions for poverty through out the world that can come about this year, the year 2005.

My Grandparents can tell the story about where they were and what they were doing when WWII ended, my parents can tell me stories of what was happening when they heard about President Kennedy getting shot. And I can tell stories about being in the locker room when I heard about the space shuttle challenger blowing up or where I was when the Berlin Wall fell. All of these are infamous moments in world history, keystones to the building my world view. But as great moments in history, all of them combined could never over shadow the eradication of world poverty.

So what will your story be? When generations look back to the culminating factors that led to the end of hunger and pain in the world, where will you be in that story? Will you be standing by the side with your finger up your nose not even realizing the immensity of the moment? (Which isn't much of a story to tell anyone). Or will you be able to share examples of the things you did to act as a catalyst for changing the world?

Do life different!

If you ever wanted to know my theology. . .

Here is the results from a "theology" quiz I took online:

You scored as Emergent/Postmodern. You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don't think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this. Emergent/Postmodern 82% Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 57% Modern Liberal 50% Roman Catholic 50% Classical Liberal 39% Neo orthodox 39% Charismatic/Pentecostal 21% Reformed Evangelical 18% Fundamentalist 0% created with QuizFarm.com

I was disappointed I scored so high on the emergent side, but happy that I got 0% in the Fundamentalist catagory!

Fast in, fast out!

I'm on the road right now with teenagers on our annual Road Rulz trip. I'm not interested in talking about that right now, but there was a billboard I saw last night at 10:12 after 1200 miles on the road.

It was a McDonalds billboard that had a picture of a value meal and the words "I love you" on it. What? Has the world gone so mad that we equate the greatest emotional force in the galaxy with burnt cow, soggy fires and bucket of carmel water?

Someone stop this planet, I want to get off!