Sunday was a half relaxed and half crazy thought, but I'm going to start with some fun stuff we learned during church. We went to this place called ReGeneration, I was thinking it was going to be one of those mega-church kinda things, but it was actually in a small Koren church building and the Koreans have their service after us. So anywho, the preacher was focusing on the story of the man with "Legion" living in him.
He started to talk about how we often tell people that once they become Christians, everything gets easier and it's just not true. When you accept Christ into your life, you've chosen your stance in a spiritual war where the enemy is very real. My thoughts on this, I completely agree. Everything doesn't necessarily get better, Christ just changes our values and priorities so that our joy comes from a different source than before - Christ.
Another thing he pointed out, that pertains more to the story, was that Jesus truly values us. He would rather save this one man than keep alive a whole herd of sheep that could have been used for food. He loved this man so much that He took a boat to reach JUST him. That was the only ministering Jesus did in Gerasenes when He went that time. Healed the man, then left.
The last thing that he talked about that stuck out to me was how Jesus agreed to the request of the demons(sent them into the pigs) and to those who opposed Him (left when asked to). However, when the one person that believed in Him asked for something (to follow Him), He refused the request. The preacher used Mark 3:35- "Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother" - saying that Jesus knew the previously demonized man was a brother because he was willing to listen to what Jesus told him to do. I think we can take this a step further in that, sometimes our heart wants one thing, but Christ knows that He can trust us to do what is required and to spread His word.
And that was all, then we walked home. :-)
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