stuff and things

wow, what a great experience in leading my first adult sunday morning bible study! i was so anxious. yet excited. i was worried that i wouldn't be able to get my points across. i enjoy classes and studies where there is a lot of interaction between the leader and the audience. at one point i asked a question (one of four) and we were like 5 or 10 minutes into the 45 minute class, and i said, "this is really going to be a short class if y'all don't start talking." or something like that, and the class just busted out laughing.

this sunday i will not be here in mobile, because i am driving my daughter to arlington to do something awesome. she is sacrificing time with her friends on her first week out of school to go and work in the hot texas sun and work on houses and do yard work for people who can not do it on their own. i am so proud of her.

however, mrs. k2 will not be going because she is the church secretary and there is no one qualified to take her place. she runs the church office by herself, and God forbid if she get sick. she gets calls asking, "where are you? and why aren't you at the church? i need you to do this." i better stop before i get myself into trouble, but anyway, her best friend is even more upset than me, because she will not get to see her, either.

i will return after being gone a week, and teach two sunday classes while jerre is out of town, then we will take turns on teaching this awesome class.

so its like this, i leave tomorrow for a week in texas, then come back for a week and then go out to lucedale, ms, to sleep in a cabin for a week with some boys and make sure they don't burn the place down, and maybe share some stuff with them, and they with me. i also get to learn and maybe teach and worship with some great people, my brothers and sisters!

what do you got going?

sunday morning class

well, i'm back from my business trip for awhile. this sunday i begin co-leading a class with one of our shepherds, jerre. the discussion will be over the book "the case for a Creator." i get to leadoff with chapter one, white coated scientists versus black-robed preachers.

have any of you read this book by lee strobel or any of his other works? i like his perspective on things being as though he was an aethist, and now he is 180 the other direction. here is a quote from chapter one that basically might be able to be said of most of us:

But there was also an undercurrent of something else: an inchoate fear of the future, of change, of new ideas, of cultural transformation. I could sense a simmering frustration in people over how modernity was eroding the foundation of their faith. "Many of the protesters," wrote the Charleston Gazette, "are demonstrating against a changing world."

this quote reflected how some of the citizens of west virginia felt concerning the changes in textbooks in the schools. the schools were going to have textbooks that supported evolution. do any of you remember when this started? i was in second grade so i don't remember what the textbooks looked like before the changes were happening. i was going to school in south houston until my 3rd grade year. then i had to go to school in the DOD system in panama where my dad was stationed.

could some of the feelings that were being shared by the citizens of west virginia be compared to how some members of churches feel about how things have changed in the past 10 years in churches of Christ?