...acquire.the.tired

wednesday night my car got towed... they charged me $150 bucks to move it like five miles... so, thursday night i couldn't sleep. every time i heard a motor i was sure my car was getting towed again... finally, around 2am i ran out to my car, drove to panera, and slept in the parking lot until 5:30...

we took some kids from the church up to acquire the fire in pittsburg. i definately was not impressed with the speakers [1]. nobody at those events ever really deals with the whole sin issue, they just get all the kids hyped up in some psuedo-Jesus-hype fest and everybody gets saved five times and starts a new myspace group.

it really broke my heart how many thousands of kids "came forward" every night, without any understanding of what it means to follow Jesus. the goods news [2] of Jesus was never mentioned. Jesus Christ is so much more than a prayer you say to get into heaven. i could rant about that for a couple of hours, but it's not really worth the time.

the kids were awesome, it was a blast getting to know everyone and goofing off downtown. highlights of the event included spontaneously bursting into rounds of "father abraham" with the goal of seeing how many random people would join in by the end, starting a hard-core dance in the middle of the concourse and hi-jacking the town carousel.

church meeting was refreshing sunday. my friend ethan showed up, and it was definately chill to catch up with him.

oh, and while i was away, Brandt the Homeless Evangelist stopped by Davis Park in Charleston with the Apprentice... i am bummed about missing him speak, so if anyone caught that please give me a call... Here is a sad feature story in theGazz about him visiting Joel Osteen's church:

http://www.thegazz.com/guide/articles/Events/3104/FEATURE%3A+Young+evangelist+gives+up+all+to+preach

[1] day of pigs, roper

[2] 1 cor 15