Wild Ride

Life since my last audio post has been...interesting (wild).
Drove back home Saturday to do laundry, then go to my old high school's 2nd annual Campus Jam. I led the Passion4Purity group there last year and was going back to help out with the Jam, but also to see if growth had occurred. And surely it did. We had twice the attendance of last year and I thought a better event, consisting of everything from live worship, breakout groups, skits, dancing, and speakers that were out of this world. Some of the students in the crowd were no-doubt what I like to call "plastic Christians"...and there was a message that applied to them in addition to the unsaved. To try to quote directly from Joe Badon's message, "Joash was trying to please Jehoiada. Joash served God but then stopped laboring for God when Jehoiada died..........It's time for us to consider why we're serving God. Are we serving God for our parents, our youth pastor, cause our friends are doing it.........you think you can impress your youth pastor and appear to be serving God at church..when you have pornography on your computer at home and go ahead and have sex and you and your girlfriend masturbate together."
I didnt' get back to LSU till 3:30 a.m. Rough ride..trying to stay awake. Night driving is not cool. Asleep at 4:45 a.m. to wake up four hours later for church. I collapsed for 1.5 hours to sleep this afternoon, then went to my 2nd dance class. We wrapped up the foxtrot and I have to say I was feeling pretty confident dancing by the end. Dancing is quite rewarding.
The LSU XA resource meeting tonight can be summarized as the Holy Spirit cutting up..and yes there is a double entendre there. Pastor Nick gave a prophetic message expressing God's anger at sin that needs to be dealt with and the need for cleansing. I prayed silently as leaders did the gutsiest thing one can do: repent before a group of people. It was rough stuff tonight. But God got us all back on track.
I'll tell you what. The day that I can no longer be convicted of sin by the Holy Spirit is the day that I am in danger of damnation. That's true for all of us. Though it hurts, I'd rather have Jesus cut me....than ignore me and let me die in my iniquity.