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Monday, July 17, 2006
Damnit! I have been tagged...
1) I am very proud of my heritage, in all of its complicated and seemingly incongruent complexity. Mexican. Canadian. A little bit o' white and you have a Mike! Haha! Read my little bio thingy. Kyle wrote it about how this all came about to be; it's rather fantastic, actually. 2) I used to be a metalhead/wannabe stoner kid, back in the day... It was gross. All black, baggy, strange clothes mixed with the constant repition of the three words death, darkness, and despair. The three "d"'s, as my folk called them. Yah. Let's never talk about this again. 3) I absolutely love "getting wet" (swimming) It is one of my favorite things to do. I don't know why... It feels so good on a 103 degree day to just jump off of a dock or cliff or something and just cool down. :) 4) I think that evangelism is odd. DO NOT get me wrong. If any of you know me in person, you know how I approach this whole subject. But, most of the time I want to punch the little aspiring-Finney in the teeth. Just yesterday I was asked by these two little charismatic evangelicals if I wanted to stick my finger on this "special spiritual card" that would change colors if I was a good person. It didn't change colors. I am obviosuly bound to hell. Until I master the fine practice of alchemy, it looks like I am damned with the rest of the cardholders whose color never did anything. It's ok, I guess. They asked me if I knew who Jesus was. I said yes, he is a guy and God. They smiled. I was then given 140 dollars in concert tickets to a bunch of CCM artisits who will play here in August. I sold them for a hundred. Everybody wins. Anywho, back to evagelism, I think we need to rethink it. Maybe even stop and try to do this whole "incarnational living" thing that the Gospels like to talk about. Taking on Christ and such... Maybe they weren't too far off with that issue... I mean, do you see St. Paul with a color-changy card? 5) I would like to be a pirate one day. Not really a "sail the seven seas" sort of fellow, more like a land-pirate. I think that would be nice. I could rape and pillage, all fromt he comfort of sweet, hard, sturdy earth. mmm... Yes, that is my dream.
posted by -mike- at 1:40 PM
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7 Comments:
You're out of control.
You're Cuban.
I love water. Then again I live on the beach.
Yah. That counts as ebing biased, Ben.
;)
HA!
That's wonderful. It really is.
the kingdom of God is near...is that enough evangelism? How cool is Paul? One day he's sharing the good news through some really good rhetoric, and the next he's doing it through miracles and that night he breaks it down with some poetry. Oh and don't forget the different people he shared it with Greeks, Romans, Jews, Spaniards, and even some Arabs. (he prabably would have used the card, if he had one)
NO, he wouldn't have. No one should.
:)
Not even kidding.
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