Church

I am looking for a church to attend.

There are a lot of churches in Nashville; it's the buckle of the Bible Belt and the Protestant Vatican. There are a lot of churches that love and serve and follow and teach and worship Jesus.

I don't want to be church shopping the entire year...I'm only going to be here this year and the next. I don't even like to call it "shopping." I don't want to say I'm "shopping" for the Bride of Christ.

Here are my standards: (is it good to have standards? am i being selfish? i really don't know)

1. First and foremost, what I mentioned about loving and serving and following Jesus.
2. Diversity, at least in age and generation if not by race or class. There are quite a few "trendy" churches around here attended mostly by white, middle-class people in their twenties and thirties. It's kind of a sad fact that Sunday morning is the time of week when Americans are the most segregated
3. An biblical emphasis on missions/reaching the lost.
4. A healthy concern for worldwide social justice.
5. A college ministry, perhaps?

Things I'm not entirely concerned about:
1. Worship style, as long as it's worship
2. Distance from Belmont, as long as I'm not driving all the way to Kentucky
3. When services begin or end or how long they are

So...uh, yeah.
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Today was just a good day.

I love it here.

It's funny how you learn so much about yourself from people that you are just getting to know. Recently people have drawn simple conclusions about me that I've never thought about before. The other day, someone said, "You're pretty nonchalant about most things, aren't you?" Huh...I guess I am.

The most random, funny thing happened tonight - Just for the heck of it, Jeremy and I decided to go to a casino night being held in the lobby of Thrailkill Hall. There were 4-6ish tables playing poker with chips (but no money...don't worry, we weren't gambling). I grabbed a set of chips and joined a game. I hadn't played poker since I was like 11, so I was pretty much clueless as I played. I basically bled chips throughout the two-hour game, but amazingly at the very end, basically by dumb luck, I won. I went to the bathroom, and when I came back they announced that I had gotten the highest score out of all the tables! I won a couple of James Bond DVDs.

Oh, life.

My gallon of milk in the fridge expires today, so I've drank over half of it this afternoon and evening. Just a little bit more...

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