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Kay sez

Interesting family conversation over the breakfast table concluded with:
"No, cats can't have concubines -- they sleep with whoever they want."

Sweet heretic

Me to Kay as we were falling asleep last night:
"Good night, my sweet heretic."

Church Basement Roadshow - San Jose

The guys are coming to town! Uh, guess who volunteered to be the local chairman?

churchbasementroadshow.com
Friday, June 20th
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30)
First Presbyterian Church
49 N. 4th St, San Jose

I am stoked about this. I hope we can create a San Jose emerging-missional cohort out of it.

Technorati Tags: missional, emergent

Yikes

Looks like a house caught fire somewhere behind ours.

Help Burma

Aid to Burma (a.k.a. Myanmar) is only just beginning a week after the fact, but the junta is not allowing foreign aid workers to enter.

But! I went to the World Vision site and learned that they have have over 500 staff workers there. I'm betting that many of them are Burmese, because they've been working there for decades and have a relationship with the government.

So let's not let the junta stop us -- let's donate money to World Vision. Your employee will likely match your gift, doubling your contribution. Who is with me?

evangelism: ur doin it wrong

We are blowing off church this morning, exhausted from our short trip to SoCal for the memorial service for Kay's dad. On the drive south, had time to talk about lots of things. She reminded me of the awkward time when I dragged her through the Student Union of Indiana University to do "contact evangelism" -- that is, walk up to people cold. My, my. The awkwardness of that experience was one of the first turning points that changed my understanding of evangelism.

The example of Kay's dad was another turning point. But Mr. Fiske (another missionary from Japan) summarized his example best at the memorial service:

As a young missionary, I went to Ivan because he had more experience, and asked, "What does a missionary do?" He replied, "Live in such a way that they will ask you, 'Why do you do what you do?' Then you can give an explanation at the time when they are most likely to actually listen."

Living Sacrifice

Last Sunday, Kay took her first crack at preaching. Or I should say, her first crack at preaching in the United States, and in English. This was also the first time she's had a predetermined topic assigned to her: "Living Sacrifice" in a series on paradox. I'm going to blog most of her notes. (Make sure you get to the punch line towards the bottom of what is our job, what is not our job, and what is God's job!)

And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice -- the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. Romans 12:1-2