Okay first week of college is down, it was pretty good, and I have some thoughts to share. First off, I don't understand why my classes havent been giving me homework. I am no going to complain, but I know the classes I have are generally pretty strong on homework. But what ends up happening when I have no work is I end up bored because everyone else does have work. It's a vicious cycle.
I think it has been really cool to see people's faith around here. Obviously they make you go to chapel some, but what is really striking is the spontaneous or optional events. I'll give two examples. First was the last night of Orientation, there was a campus worship session that a lot of people went to, and what hit me was how genuine the student worship was. It wasn't like at a Liberty chapel where there are like 20 people singing and 80 just standing there. This was like 500 people genuinely praising God, which was amazing to see. The second example, which actually happened tonight, was an informal worship session in my dorms lounge. Even though the event was posted about 2 hours prior, we ended up with 20 to 30 people from the dorm worshipping for about an hour. Very cool to experience.
Basketball is still going, and I just love playing. It is so intense, you have to be on your toes all the time and I love it. It is so exciting to go all out, and play good competition. Most of the guys are pretty encouraging, telling me to take my shots and stuff like that. Like I've said, I absolutely love the concept of improving and working hard, so if I get burned or make a mistake in the game, obviously I'm not very pleased, but I can look at it as something to learn from.
Weights have been going too, hopefully I can put in a little more time for them this week, I feel like I cut a workout or two a bit short last week. I kind of want the coach to assign workout partners already so I can have someone to spot me on bench.
I'm enjoying meeting a bunch of new people, but sometimes I like don't hear peoples names, so I find myself listening for people to address them so that I can get it. Oh well, a lot of the people are pretty chill, even if some of the groups have different dynamics than I am used to.
Lastly for tonight, I went to Southside this week. It was a minuscule church. There were like 30, 40 people there max. The pastor was cool, if I went there I could get into music immediately, and some of the other people were really nice and inviting too. Like I went to lunch with the pastors family and another guy. It was really relaxed, but it raises some questions in my mind for choosing churches. They were so inviting, I feel like I should go back, but it just might not be the right fit, because there really werent many college age people there at all, and the pastor wasn't quite as good as Grace Baptist. So I really need some prayer for making the right decision on a church. Maybe there is another church to try, but I don't think that is what God is telling me. I keep thinking about a few things. One is C.S. Lewis in Screwtape Letters where Lewis talks about not being a connoisseur of churches, which I am not doing, but after that he says that God sticks us in places where we might not like every aspect of the church, but we are there for a reason to grow us and others. Then there is a combination of a guy that spoke at new Vintage and Mark Driscoll. The guy from New Vintage said something like God puts us where he wants us(same as Lewis) and Driscoll made a comment about how God places people around us to grow us and form relationships with us. Sometimes we just aren't looking for it. All the thoughts are similar, but they very much tie in to choosing a home church, so any prayer is welcome.
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