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Name: David
Interests: I Love Jesus Christ, and I have dedicated my life to serving Him
Expertise: Counseling, Preaching
Occupation: Seminary Student, Campus Minis
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AIM:  skeldonman
Member Since:
5/27/2004
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| It's probably about time, for the sake of my many fans here (can I say that tongue-in-cheek in type, without it coming off as arrogant, but rather humorous? Now I second-guess myself), to mention that I've been posting, and a fair bit, on another blog. I like the format a bit better, and although it has its flaws, it seems like it may have more of a community than Xanga. anyway, it is at
http://kohenchayil.livejournal.com/
I hope you enjoy reading it half as much as I've been enjoying making it.
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| So said Camille in her over-Skype video talk she gave last Sunday to our X-Plosion! discipleship group with the college students at RIT, from India. What does that mean?
In her context, that means that they are working on non-written ways of sharing the Gospel with people who will respond better to things like 'storying' (basically taking a passage from Scripture and telling it as a story instead of reading it- don't I do this all the time anyway?) than they will to a tract or some type of physical material. The question that interests me now is: what does that mean for me?
Since I was young, I always displayed some aptitude for public speaking, from announcing things during concerts to debating in Model United Nations now to preaching and teaching with the college students and occassionally at Church. I've also been fairly comfortable, although often unwilling (more based on the structure of most given activities than the medium of writing) with communicating through text, even as I do now. Early on I developed fairly quick typing skills, and my Seminary classmates were often impressed that I could type out a 3 or 4 page paper in the 1/2 hour before class. I was like that through college and High School also. So what does that mean about my 'learning type,' or even my preferred method of communication?
Perhaps nothing. Maybe I can do both decently or passably. I retain things well both from books as well as films, also teaching material in class and conversations with people. If I had to pick, I'd say the preference is for verbal communication; I have some basic grasp of languages and 'tongues' of people, and now that I think about it as I'm typing, (which is a fascinating contribution to the discussion, indicating that I can process thoughts through writing.... meaning what? perhaps i can interact with both methods of 'learning' and communication) this may explain why I'm much more comfortable in musical art and expression, and have been since I was very young, and am unskilled in visual arts: my painting, drawing, sculpting skills are seriously underdeveloped.... although I'm not terrible with a needle and thread or a crochet hook.
*Edit* I realized only after posting this that I needed to come back and talk about how introverted I really am, and whether that affects all this, specifically relating because the issue is reading: when I was young, i read ALL the time. I still believe that one of the reasons I don't have perfect vision is because I used to stay up past when I was supposed to be asleep and read in the dim light from the hallway into my bedroom on the feet-end of my bed. In High School, I ready easily a book a week. My greatest point to pride was reading "Shogun" (a 1200+ page book) in one week (I would read during band practice, walking in the hallways, riding to and from places). So I very much interacted with written text.... a LOT. Most of my time spent at home after school was in my bedroom alone reading, listening to music. Until I got involved with after school activities like sports and clubs, that's how most of my non-school time was spent. I certainly think personality preference like that could contribute to the discussion of communication preference.*
I'm not sure if I have a conclusion to this thought, or if I'm done processing it. This may explain why one friend intensely dislikes telephone communication and enjoys writing, while another won't contribute to their blog or email much, but connects very deeply in conversation. The question I'm most interested in is: how does or ought this affect the way I communicate with different people? Certainly I want to accomodate people and allow them to express themselves best. Perhaps my task is just to be now consciously and more aware of one more aspect of communication and how each individual prefers to transfer their thoughts, feelings and experiences, and allow them the freedom to that within their preferred medium. If I am nearly as strong in written communication as writing, maybe the greatest boon is that I'm not limited by medium, and I can communicate both with the 70% and with the 30 without limitation. My only worry would be that this is not the case, and I will perhaps never fully connect with those that have a different learning or relational channel. I look forward to seeing how my awareness of the issue develops into {hopefully} deeper connection with people.
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| THE CONQUERORS
Jesus and Alexander died at age thirty-three.
One lived and died for self; one died for you and me;
The Greek died on a throne; the Jew died on a cross;
One's life a triumph seemed; the other but a loss.
One led vast armies forth; the other walked alone.
One shed a whole world's blood; the other gave his own.
One won the world in life and lost it all in death;
The other lost his life to win the whole world's faith.
Jesus and Alexander died at age thirty-three.
One died in Babylon, and one on Calvary.
One gained all for himself; and one himself he gave,
One conquered every throne; the other every grave.
The one made himself God, and God made himself less,
The one lived but to blast, the other but to bless.
When died the Greek, forever fell his throne of swords;
But Jesus died to live forever Lord of Lords.
Jesus and Alexander died at age thirty-three.
The Greek made all men slaves; the Jew made all men free.
One built a throne on blood; the other from above.
One won all this earth, to lose all earth and heaven.
The other gave up all, that all to him be given.
The Greek forever died; the Jew forever lives
He loses all who gets, and wins all things who gives.
Charles Ross Weede
Alexander the Great (in Greek Μέγας Αλέξανδρος, transliterated Megas Alexandros;) born in Pella, Macedon, in July, 356 BC, died in Babylon, on June 10, 323 BC), King of Macedon 336–323 BC.
I made some grammatical and spelling corrections; is it ok to change someone's poem like that?
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| I've begun co-authoring a blog following my pursuits in reading through the Bible in the Message: Remix. I'm writing along with two other most intimidatingly talented journalists, and I look forward to the humility that comes in interacting with them in this literary endeavor, and learning a great deal even about writing alone.
http://biblical.nowisenough.net/
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| I realize only after consideration about Sherwin’s blog, that we share that same, very saddening, experience. We have both been rejected by a large part of our culture; in many ways the very part of our culture that we had hoped would accept us. Certainly in my case the people closest to me, my congregation growing up, even my own family rejected me for what I believed. I can understand rejecting my belief, but it hurts to be personally rejected by the people I care about. The only people in that community that accept me are the people that I don’t really feel as close to, and probably because they only sometimes seem to care for me personally. The extremes accept me, or maybe accept that other people can believe differently, perhaps as long as they get a chance to convert me, both the ultra-orthodox and the ultra-liberal. But I don’ really belong to those communities, either. I'm really not sure where this leaves me, because a part of me thinks that to the Christians, I will always be a Jew, and though many in that community revere that heritage, even that separates and distances me from them; to the Jews, I will certainly be a Christian, and never accepted into the community, like a foreigner or a eunuch. Perhaps this is exactly where I ought to be, for the sake of my pride, and my complacency. Perhaps someday I can have my own family, that I will be a full member of.
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