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False Teachers

So I was reading in 2 Peter Ch. 2 last night and I had something hit me:

18For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. 19They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

I'm not sure why, but it struck me how vunerable we are when we first come to believe in Christ. That while God has His hand on us, we are still susceptible to misgivings and influences from people and things not of God. This, in turn, made me think about how critical a community of Believers that accept and support new Christians is. Those new Christians could easily be handed over to false teachers that will lead them completely astray. Obviously, it isn't just new Christians that can be led astray, but I think this verse makes it clear that false teachers will entice people who are just beginning to turn away from the life they've been leading. So I prayed fervently last night for the protection of many people I know (and those I don't know) in my life that have only recently begun to truly seek God. And I thanked God for my church and the community of people He has placed me in. I can't think of one instance where I've seen anyone in that church or in my circle of friends not accept someone new for who they are.

Dam!

So Chinese engineers blew up the last of the temporary dams at the just-completed Three Gorges Dam. Pretty sweet video of them doing so here. Especially cool is the views of the water levels suddenly rising/dropping. Although the hydroelectric portion of the dam isn't operational yet, it is completed structurally and now holding back a massive body of water. Three Gorges is 5x the size of the Hoover Dam.

Excitement

What am I excited about? Soccer. Why? Because hopefully tonight will be my first night playing with the BMW Soccer Club. And what a great day it is for a little futbol.

Weekend

So I get bored with just relaying the facts about my weekend. In light of this, I'm going to recite the events using only ridiculously short phrases:

Friday: X-men movie, anger, food, Garrison, talk, late, sleep

Saturday: sleep, Karla, Brent, mall, PF Changs, ice skate, laugh, Barley's, new people, more new people, inundated w/ new people, sleep

Sunday: Newspring, grass, run, gym, hours of laundry (thanks Andi and Kenyon for the hookup.) sleep.

There, I did it. Now you can piece together what it means yourself.

Oh, I'm checking out a new bible study group tonight. All I know at this point is that it is a pot-luck dinner and they said b/c I'm new, I don't have to bring anything. I love being a newbie.

Group

So I'm thinking about getting up a group of peeps to go to Carowinds on Saturday, June 24th. The nice thing is that since I work onsite @ BMW, I can get a pretty sweet discount on tickets. The price I can get them for even beats the group discount. Awesome. Anybody interested?