Out in the Open

How does time get away so quickly? Has it really been almost six months since I last sat down to post? I'm a pretty easy blogger to follow . . . if you're 'snailing' into the 21st century, you should have no trouble staying up with my writing.

I sit today to try and capture some thoughts and conversations as of late that I found striking and even a bit disturbing.

For example, yesterday I was speaking with a young adult who assured me he is a Christian but wondered if it would bother me if he told me that he didn't think the traditional 'words' of becoming a Christian were really valid. I think what he was getting at is what maturing believers know: a rote prayer doesn't ensure salvation; a heart change does. I replied that perhaps this is why Jesus felt the need to say that some people will be surprised when they're turned away from heaven, that Jesus said some will hear him say, "I never knew you." It's quite a take-a-look-in-the-mirror moment when you repeat scripture that points to bearing fruit as a sign of true conversion. I don't want to be one who knows the scripture. I want to be one who knows the Word (as in John 1:1 'In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God.') And I want him to know the Word as well!

More later . . .