CollegeLife

This is it! The first Sunday Night CollegeLife!

 I hope you can make it out Sunday Night @ 7pm at Greenbrier Ridge Apartments Clubhouse- imagine a Starbucks, but with more space!

 This Sunday the lesson is titled, “Imagine…”  What would our lives look like if we thought about others the way Christ does?  What would our churches look like if we treated the “sinners” the same way Jesus did? can you imagine?

See you Sunday @7pm.

And don’t forget on Monday at 6:30pm before Crossroad we will have a free pizza dinner to find out more about CollegeLife this semester.  There is a facebook event you can go join to tell us you will be there.

Thanks

Thanks to all who came out to the Pool.Movie.Cookout party at the Neely’s house last night.  There was swimming, food, and the movie Hitch for everyone to enjoy.  Again, be sure to check us out next week at our new location and time.  We will meet on Sunday Nights at 7pm at Greenbrier Ridge Apartments Clubhouse (directions are in Direction section of the webpage).  We hope to see you all there!

This Sunday, August 19th, Pool.Movie.Cookout party at Ed and Paulette Neely’s House!(Click on the Directions Tab above)  We’ll swim for a while starting at 5pm, eat some dinner, and then watch a movie out by the pool. Email jneely@fefc.com if you have any questions!

 That’s right pack the boxes, dust under the rugs, grab a dolly- we’re moving!

Those of you who were in CollegeLife yesterday heard the big news that CollegeLife is moving to Sunday Nights starting this fall, and those of you that weren’t there- now you know !  We will kick off the fall semester with a pool/movie/cook out on Sunday the 19th at 5 pm at the Neely’s House (you can find out how to get there on the directions page).

Then on August 26th we will start our all new CollegeLife!  We will meet on Sunday Nights at 7pm at Greenbrier Ridge Apartments Clubhouse (again directions are listed). This will give us more of an opportunity to be with one another, spend time together and just dig into life.

So here we go!

So how do Christians think? What’s the grid you use to tell if something is good?  Is it possible for something to be technically excellent with a bad message? What about the opposite? 

If you were in CollegeLife yesterday you heard an interesting lesson on how we as Christians can engage the culture.  Frank Mashburn challenged us on how we interact with non-Christians.  Is it more of a war, everyone smiling and simply getting along, viewing yourself as the light to your classroom, etc…

Perhaps we need to look through a different grid as we dialogue with those who surround us.  The grid had 4 quadrants:

1. Technically Excellent- Good Message= Frank’s Message

2. Technically Bad- Good Message= Some Christian Music

3. Technically Excellent- Bad Message= Some Secular Music

4. Technically Bad- Bad Message= Lots of music, art, etc…

These are just examples.  Plenty of things fall under these categories: your professors’ lectures, art, music, conversations, books, thoughts, blogs, etc… 

So this challenges us to interact with people and not simply have a definitive answer for everything. Perhaps we can learn from the non-Christian sitting next to you in class. Just maybe your math teacher does know the quadratic equation even though she doesn’t know John 3:16.

 Can you watch South Park? What about listening to Barlow Girls? Can you learn from your philosophy professor?  What about science?

Like Paul on Mars Hill, we must know those we are dealing with and not simply act like all of culture is ignorant.  What Frank challenged me with is this: We as Christians DO have a Good message- the question is do we portray it with excellence?  It would be easy to claim that we have THE message and not worry about doing everything we can to paint that message with excellence.  That means our social lives, our homework, the way we deal with unbelievers, everything; done with excellence.