Youth Specialties #3

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Today was another crazy day . . . i laughed, i cried, i ate chick-fil-a.

Now i'm almost ready to go to sleep, but I'm watching Larry King Live on CNN and Rick Warren (as in the purpose driven pastor of purpose driven life) is being interviewed and is fielding call-in quesitons. It's the first time I've seen him and I'm not surprised. He looks like a pastor (actually he looks like a senior pastor that used to be a youth pastor - goatee, slightly balding, slighty expanding in the horizontal plane).

I've had a problem with him . . . no, i've had a problem with the obvious commercialization of "Christian" books. He seems nice and all . . . a little side-stepping of questions going on, and Larry King (of the Jewish persuasion) is GRILLING him quite intensely . . . 'So what you're saying is that the Jew isn't going to Heaven?'

Not that any of this has to do with my experience at youth specialties.

The truth is defending your faith is potentially incredibly challenging, because of the battleground, the context. The culture we live in has a picture of the evangelical as the far right-wing pompous word i'd LIKE to say here. On national television, no less. So I'm forced to applaud the Rev. Rick.

Which I don't like doing, but I'm never quite sure why.

In any case, I get to see my wife tomorrow, so I'm pretty stoked about that. Youth Specialties taught me a lot. Please hold me accountable to it, if you're reading this. Make sure that I'm actually doing something with what I'm learning.

Grace.