Swamped!!! So much work!!!

So this has been the longest most mentally tiring few days ever. On Monday I have a mid-term, and 3 papers to hand in. One paper is an evaluation about how fit I am and how fit I’d like to be in my senior year? (I wont even be in Moody in 4 years), one is for College writing, a descriptive paper about a friend. And finally a book report about the Case for Christ. I quite enjoyed the book report, the book has taught me a few things and it was quite an enjoyable read (I did only skim over the main points though) Its Saturday night and I now have just finished my report and I have half of my fitness assessment completed as well, so I feel like I have achieved quite a lot so I can have a well earned rest tonight when I finally turn in to my pit in about half an hour.

Next week is missions conference, I’m not totally sure what all this entails but I do know that after Monday I have no classes until the following Wednesday. Also another well earned bonus is that I don’t have to work either so I have a whole week off to relax and start preparing for my next assignments that will be due very shortly (its like a vicious cycle of mental exhaustion) oh well I’m here to learn aren’t I. the only thing I have to do this week is attend the missions conference sessions so it will be a little more relaxing than what I have yet to get used to, everything over here is at break neck pace, I don’t know how some people keep up with it, my friend is double majoring, that’s just nuts, I can hardly find time to relax and I do 6 credit hours less than her each week. Americans eh?

I cant wait until Monday night when I can finally have a little more freedom after I hand all this work in, its going to feel so good ☺ infact I have already made a date with my computer and season 3 of Lost (I’m downloading it off itunes as I write this) for that evening.

So this week I went to get my social security number (I can finally get paid for work), I wish I could have avoided doing it because I had to wit for like 2 hours in a sweaty waiting room for the stupid woman to inform me that all I could do was make an appointment for next Tuesday to apply for it, I was pretty enraged with anger at this stage but it was ok, I got a good part of my paper written while I waited in the disgusting room. The paper I was writing was one of the best assignment titles I have ever written about, I thoroughly enjoyed writing it. The title was “Is lifestyle/friendship evangelism more effective than having a strong apologetic approach?” When I first read that title I was like “what the heck” but then I looked up what it mean by “having a strong apologetic” and it basically just means “to defend something.”

I learnt a lot from this because I always thought that the lifestyle approach and friendship approach was much easier and assumed that it was more effective but in reality we need to have a firm grasp of both approaches. A testimony about how God has changed a persons life says a lot and can be very effective for witnessing but if we don’t have a firm grasp of the scripture proving why there has been a change in our lives then how are we going to answer the question put to us about how God works through us, about why we have decided to put faith in God and have a relationship with Christ. I think that both are vital. We build up relationships and friendships with people but that can only take us so far, once we have a strong relationship with the people we are trying to win they will eventually begin to ask deeper questions and we need to be ready to deal with that, we need to have a grasp of the scripture so we can answer their question and show them how to have a relationship with Christ. It was summed up using a great picture of two football fans arguing whether or not it is more important to score goals or to defend their own net. The conclusion is that we need a combination of both.

Oh look at that perfect timing; Lost has just finished downloading ☺ so long for now my friends.