There was a great article in the Tuesday Sun about the religious mind of our country and our generation. You can read it at:http://cornellsun.com/node/29071. I commented the following:
Hi,
I really enjoyed your article, it spoke to many aspects of my life experience. I went to middle school in a largely Jewish community in South Florida, I even got to go to a few Bar and Bat Mitzvah’s. Unfortunately I was never the nice Jewish boy of choice (I’m Chinese, and Christian and worst of all I wasn’t popular). Which brings me to my other points.
Yeah…we are definitely not less religious as a generation. We all have a worldview, a way of answering the ultimate questions (or at least a way to justify why it’s ok to not answer the ultimate questions), and a fairy tale ending lodged in the back of our heads. We’ll put it off as nothing more than a childish fantasy when it is exposed, but we really do kinda believe in it. I would say that our generation is even more hungry for answers that our(your, my parents grew up in communist China) parents’ generation because they still had a pseudo-Christian religiosity that gave them the whispers of religion that they needed to get by. I suspect there are few people who REALLY don’t care about God. If you’ll permit me, there is a Bible verse that says that God has “set eternity into the hearts of men” (and women). I think that’s true.
And you’re right…it usually takes a lot more than a little naughtiness to get someone to God. I suspect it’s usually when God (or life if you like) lovingly brings down the hammer and something precious falls apart in our lives.
I’ll put myself out there as a religious nut and say that I think I’ve found the answer. I’m pretty sure I’ve found the answer. It’s Jesus. You’re probably asking, which one? The white one? the black one? the Catholic one? the Mormon one? the Chinese one? Nah…he was Jewish,and a pretty nice one it seems. I really believe he existed and I really believe that everything that the Bible says about him is true, being the Son of God and dying for sins and all and resurrecting. The Bible is much more legit historically than most of the historians we trust for that period in time, it’s just that if what the Bible says is really true then that means we have to reckon with it.
If you or anyone reading this thinks they want to reckon with it, feel free to drop by Olin 155 on Friday nights at 7:30pm, it’s the Campus Crusade meeting. Don’t let the name freak you out, half the group is Asian. Or check out http://www.thereasonforgod.com, it’s pretty legit.
Katie, I think I might have lived on your floor freshman year. Donlon 3rd floor? Small world eh? Shoot you’re Canadian…
Response to “My plane ride with God” March 29, 2008
Tags: Campus Crusade, Church and Culture, Evangelism, Jewish Culture, Postmodernism
There was a great article in the Tuesday Sun about the religious mind of our country and our generation. You can read it at:http://cornellsun.com/node/29071. I commented the following:
Hi,
I really enjoyed your article, it spoke to many aspects of my life experience. I went to middle school in a largely Jewish community in South Florida, I even got to go to a few Bar and Bat Mitzvah’s. Unfortunately I was never the nice Jewish boy of choice (I’m Chinese, and Christian and worst of all I wasn’t popular). Which brings me to my other points.
Yeah…we are definitely not less religious as a generation. We all have a worldview, a way of answering the ultimate questions (or at least a way to justify why it’s ok to not answer the ultimate questions), and a fairy tale ending lodged in the back of our heads. We’ll put it off as nothing more than a childish fantasy when it is exposed, but we really do kinda believe in it. I would say that our generation is even more hungry for answers that our(your, my parents grew up in communist China) parents’ generation because they still had a pseudo-Christian religiosity that gave them the whispers of religion that they needed to get by. I suspect there are few people who REALLY don’t care about God. If you’ll permit me, there is a Bible verse that says that God has “set eternity into the hearts of men” (and women). I think that’s true.
And you’re right…it usually takes a lot more than a little naughtiness to get someone to God. I suspect it’s usually when God (or life if you like) lovingly brings down the hammer and something precious falls apart in our lives.
I’ll put myself out there as a religious nut and say that I think I’ve found the answer. I’m pretty sure I’ve found the answer. It’s Jesus. You’re probably asking, which one? The white one? the black one? the Catholic one? the Mormon one? the Chinese one? Nah…he was Jewish,and a pretty nice one it seems. I really believe he existed and I really believe that everything that the Bible says about him is true, being the Son of God and dying for sins and all and resurrecting. The Bible is much more legit historically than most of the historians we trust for that period in time, it’s just that if what the Bible says is really true then that means we have to reckon with it.
If you or anyone reading this thinks they want to reckon with it, feel free to drop by Olin 155 on Friday nights at 7:30pm, it’s the Campus Crusade meeting. Don’t let the name freak you out, half the group is Asian. Or check out http://www.thereasonforgod.com, it’s pretty legit.
Katie, I think I might have lived on your floor freshman year. Donlon 3rd floor? Small world eh? Shoot you’re Canadian…