A Holy Pursuit

It was one of those nights. I rarely have trouble sleeping, even to the point of my friends dubbing me as mildly narcoleptic. Usually I can fall asleep anytime and anywhere. Sleep has always come easily to me, and I have been blessed in this way. But that night was different. I had finished reading my daily “Streams in the Desert” devotion for the evening, and spent some time in prayer, which usually calms my soul in order to find peaceful slumber, but sleep wasn’t coming to me that night. My thoughts were troubled and filled with ponderings of which I could not understand. I was thinking back on last semesters Systematic Theology 2 class, and what I had been confronted with in that class. I struggled with the idea of being chosen by God through adoption, and being justified through my obedience and growing in my relationship with Christ, despite my seemingly continual struggle with sin. How could God see any potential in me when I don’t see any in myself? How could God think I w...

Ecclesiology has been a point of interest for me for quite a long time; possibly because I have witnessed a great deal of struggles and issues in the church in general. I won’t deny that some of these issues touch more close to home than others, but I am still interested in the general study of the church (and when I say “the church” I mean the whole church, everywhere, as the complete body of Christ). In my Systematic Theology 2 class we recently completed the section on Ecclesiology and my appetite was whetted for further thought and discussion concerning the study of the church. This is the “baby” of my original study on Ecclesiology. First, I believe there are three main aspects of the church: fellowship, worship, and evangelism. I will briefly address each of these topics, but I may end up eventually addressing more on each topic or discussing further dynamics of the church.  However, with that said, I don’t find it necessary to compartmentalize every area of the church....

I guess it was inevitable... I love to write and express my thoughts and feelings through the written word, so naturally I would start a blog. One of my biggest pet peeves about blogs were the feelings, after having read someone's blog, that I had just wasted those minutes of my life. I don't want that to happen; in fact I still struggle with this idea of a blog. Therefore, it is more for me than for anyone else; but if others can gain anything through what I write I know it is only through my attempts to communicate the power of God at work in my own life. I go to a Bible college where I am studying Women's Ministry and Biblical Exposition so it is natural for me to experience the need for a purpose statement in almost everything I do. I have been taught for years to ask myself why I am doing what I am doing. Is it to bring glory to myself and my accomplishments? Or so others will remark on what a thoughtful person I am? Absolutely not. If that is the response these posts...