don't you love it when God has things fall into place, and he's all tricky and stuff. it makes me smile and giggle - i'm not quite sure why. it's probably because it's nice to be reminded that, yes, He knows what He's doing, and silly me for not always remembering that.
last night it was tamara, sam and will's baptisms - AWESOME! plus it ended up being open baptism night - and judy, martin and mel took up that over. how exciting!! it was a shame that matt wasn't there, because he'd always said that at the next open baptism he'd be up there.
but anyway, david was preaching on Romans 6, and baptism, or at least next steps and doing business with God. And the first few minutes of the sermon talked about natural inclination to do evil. and my head said "hello God" because that has been in my face a bit recently. i think i have to process it more to understand why it's in my face. it's all well and good to go 'yep, sure have natural bias towards sin', but i'm sure more has to come out of it than that.
the service was tops last night. lots of people met with God and that is always exciting!
How exciting is getting comments! I have sat back and waited for a bit, but now I say to you Jen about the whole inclination to sin thingo:
Have you been reading Screwtape letters recently??? cos just by the way you are thinking it sounds like you have been... but this topic was (is??) much debated in Psych, about whether you are born good and learn bad, or whether one is born evil and it is punsihed out of one... I know ze Bible says you are born into sin, but I agree with you that there is more to it than what is immediately there. I too enjoyed Dave's talk and noticed that part too.
This comment is already farrr too big - so I shall save further discussion for, well, a further discussion!
i was reading screwtape letters in about february - haven't finished it yet (stalled).
goodo. thanks luke!
and comments are exciting!
Posted by: jen at April 28, 2004 05:57 PM