church tonight...was good. tim and sally swan shared a bit and tim spoke. i havent heard a serman like that in a long time. he preached on john 3:16, which at first made me go "huh? why is he preaching on this? we all knwo this verse" but i reckon you cant really be reminded too many times of a verse like that. his talk was full of challenge and what not to go and "follow Jesus" which is always good. i often feel like i hear lots of people talking about how they are growing closer to God and all about their relationship but not enough about what you do once you got all that. like following Jesus. he had a good missionary stance. i like hearing from missionaries.
then we prayed for people about guidence. i stood up at first. and then felt like a goose. cause i realised i didnt really need to stand up. i think i have my guidence, i reckon its sitting in a little box in front of me that i havent opened yet cause im a bit scared.
he also talked about how much God loved us...as the verse does. that made me go "yeah, da" but then i thought some more and decided i never really responded well to people telling me how much God loved me. i didnt respond badly, it just didnt make an effect in me until i worked it out for myself. maybe people need to be taught how to feel Gods love, and not told so much that its big and stuff. i dont know how you would do that. i think thats true about a few things. i used to listen to sermons about listening to God and think "thats all fine and dandy but how the heck does that all work?". for a while i just felt real silly, like i was missing some big point, and i didnt want to ask anyone cause they all obviously understood everything that was going on. i dont have the answers, or any standing argument or debate topic, but i never learnt like that. maybe its just me and my ineffective learning patterns. but as some dude said "when all else fails, use words"...
...actually whoever that dude was probably articulated it far more profoudly.