We have it too easy

So i’m sitting here on my couch listening to the Passion 2011 live stream and Francis Chan is speaking, you know, being awesome like always, and he starts telling this story about when he was in China visiting an underground church. He’s asking them to tell him about the persecution they have faced trying to learn and spread the Work of Christ. He says they just start looking at him funny, like they don’t really know what he’s getting at. And he’s like, “Well, there are all these stories about how you guys face so much persecution and I was just interested to know so of your experiences.” They just keep giving him these looks, but they start telling stories about how government officials break into their meetings and chase them out and open fire on them and all these terrible things. But while they’re sharing all these stories, they’re just laughing!! They are taught in training for these churches that when a government official breaks in, you just run, and keep running! Eventually they start saying things like, “You must know, this is how its supposed to be everywhere, the bible says that if we face persecution, so will you.” So Francis starts explaining to them about how in America we have these buildings that are churches, and that people can choose which one they want to attend, and if the music is better at another, or the speaker, or the childcare, they can just up and switch whenever they want. And they just laugh! Francis is trying to get them to believe that what he’s saying is they way it is, but they just keep laughing!! Then he says, “They are right, how they have it they’re, thats how its supposed to be!” We have made learning and spreading the word too easy!! Of course, when Francis says it it just sounds so much more profound when I do, plus i’ve forgotten some of the things he said, but before I decided to share this with you guys I was sitting here listening to him go on with his sermon, but my mind kept going back to that, its such a overwhelming and…exciting, yet, scary truth, but a truth none the less. 

So this is my first blog. The first 2 days of the year have been fabulous aside for the fact that i got sick yesterday, on day 1, non the less. I guess the year is trying to fight back, but i’m still waking up every morning with such a better outlook on life. I’ll get into the sharing things about me stuff another time, but I just thought about starting this off this way. I’ll probably be sharing a lot of things like this throughout this process. So, if you haven’t given up and quit reading this, thanks! I hope you keep reading them, because I plan on having a lot to say! :)

Philippians 1:21   “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”