CHRIST IS RISEN!!!Happy day after Easter :) I hope you all had a blessed day full of Jesus' resurrection and brightly colored eggs. Maybe some chocolate bunnies too. I wanted to share some thoughts from the sermon my pastor preached on sunday. I was struck when he said that we take the fact that Jesus raised from the grave for granted. We have lost the joy of the resurrection! It's so true! I don't think about the resurrection half as much as I should, let alone let it effect my life the way it should. The gospel should fill us with joy and awe everyday (as should faith and repentance). Something else my pastor talked about was the distinction between travelers and tourists. Daniel J. Boorstin says "The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing'" G. K. Chesterton also tackles this subject by stating that "the traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see". My pastor said that travelers immerse themselves the in culture, learn the language and is apart of the place they go to when a tourist barely learns the language and collects stories and souvenirs to take home with them. He compared this idea to the idea of disciples vs believers. We have stopped calling christians "disciples" and instead call them "believers" now. A disciple is a traveler, he immerses himself in the Word and lives it out, learning the language and customs. A believer is a tourist, just passing though, collecting $200 at Go and taking stories back home. I want to be a Traveler, I want to be a Disciple. <- new challenge. If the resurrection is real, than we need to stop being tourists and become avid travelers.
The rest of Easter was spent eating ham, collecting eggs, wearing pretty dresses, and telling my family about my china trip.
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| Maggie and I egg hunting |
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| my bestie, Danika, and I at church |
HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE!!!
xoxoME
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