Saturday, July 24, 2004
now playing: absolute silence. that is, except for the computer fan. and the lights humming in the next room. and the keyboard (this one's noisier than my laptop)... ok, so there's no music playing.
Here i am, in the cool-verging-on-cold of Thunder Bay, waiting for an online Settlers of Catan game to start so i can join... a new hobby that i discovered a couple weeks ago and am immensely enjoying. We'll see how long it keeps me occupied. I say another two weeks before my position on the ladder is too depressing to derive any enjoyment from the game...
Booked my flight home for the end of August, haven't booked my flight back to Thunder Bay though (yes that's right, it's official, TBay owns me for at least one more year). I have a job and everything: i'm planning a youth conference in Thunder Bay for March. And it'll probably take me most of the year, too, but i might be able to get a part-time job to help support the ministries here (tim hortons here i come!).
In other news... i highly recommend Bourne Supremacy. Stinkin' good movie. I don't have my license yet, but i'm definitely working on it. I have a deadline: August 14th. If i'm done by then, i can have the family van while i'm home alone for a whole week. The pressure's on.
Oh, oh, funny story. I answered the phone today, and a lady wanted to know about Interpreter's House. That's fine, i've been through the program and know lots of the answers, so i asked if i could help her. Apparently someone she knows (no details given) is thinking about coming to the school, and she wants to check out our doctrine. Fair enough, i'd do the same. So she starts asking me what we teach about end times. I say that we don't emphasize end times at all. She thinks i'm trying to skirt the issue and presses harder: how do you teach revelation? Well ma'am, we don't really cover revelation except in New Testament survey in second year, and it's an independent study. She seems to accept this, but my relief is short-lived when she starts to ask whether we're 'Calvinist'. I tentatively answer that we are, which she proceeds to use to springboard back into eschatology - "When i say 'Calvinist', i mean do you interpret revelation literally or as an allegory?" At this point i realize that someone far more delicate than i needs to handle the situation, so i refer her to our director's home number.
Proof once again that our Christian community knows far too much and believes far too little. I mean... ESCHATOLOGY first on the list of important doctrinal issues? Ahead of SOTERIOLOGY (which never was actually brought up)???
And... that's all. There is no more. Unless Star comes to Thunder Bay. In which case... well... i'll write a whole blog just for her. :D
Here i am, in the cool-verging-on-cold of Thunder Bay, waiting for an online Settlers of Catan game to start so i can join... a new hobby that i discovered a couple weeks ago and am immensely enjoying. We'll see how long it keeps me occupied. I say another two weeks before my position on the ladder is too depressing to derive any enjoyment from the game...
Booked my flight home for the end of August, haven't booked my flight back to Thunder Bay though (yes that's right, it's official, TBay owns me for at least one more year). I have a job and everything: i'm planning a youth conference in Thunder Bay for March. And it'll probably take me most of the year, too, but i might be able to get a part-time job to help support the ministries here (tim hortons here i come!).
In other news... i highly recommend Bourne Supremacy. Stinkin' good movie. I don't have my license yet, but i'm definitely working on it. I have a deadline: August 14th. If i'm done by then, i can have the family van while i'm home alone for a whole week. The pressure's on.
Oh, oh, funny story. I answered the phone today, and a lady wanted to know about Interpreter's House. That's fine, i've been through the program and know lots of the answers, so i asked if i could help her. Apparently someone she knows (no details given) is thinking about coming to the school, and she wants to check out our doctrine. Fair enough, i'd do the same. So she starts asking me what we teach about end times. I say that we don't emphasize end times at all. She thinks i'm trying to skirt the issue and presses harder: how do you teach revelation? Well ma'am, we don't really cover revelation except in New Testament survey in second year, and it's an independent study. She seems to accept this, but my relief is short-lived when she starts to ask whether we're 'Calvinist'. I tentatively answer that we are, which she proceeds to use to springboard back into eschatology - "When i say 'Calvinist', i mean do you interpret revelation literally or as an allegory?" At this point i realize that someone far more delicate than i needs to handle the situation, so i refer her to our director's home number.
Proof once again that our Christian community knows far too much and believes far too little. I mean... ESCHATOLOGY first on the list of important doctrinal issues? Ahead of SOTERIOLOGY (which never was actually brought up)???
And... that's all. There is no more. Unless Star comes to Thunder Bay. In which case... well... i'll write a whole blog just for her. :D
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