Though I was skeptical about Rob Bell and his ministry at first because of rumors, I have become a huge fan of his ability to ask questions and provoke you to think about...Jesus! You can't go wrong with the savior of the world. We've been showing the Nooma videos at the youth group I help pastor and, not to my surprise, I've gotten a lot out of 'em. I love the quality of the videos themselves...oh, unto the Lord may it be your best effort! (not at all for performance sake but for love sake)

Yesterday we showed the Nooma video titled "Today". Sorry if I ruin the story line for you but it's about living in abandonment to God. The whole "live everyday as if it were your last" concept except...for the Lord and not yourself.

What if...we lived this way? Sure you may have thought this or been asked this before, but what if a community, a group of friends, a handful of people begin to live completely abandoned to the heart of God. What would that look like? What would happen to the atmosphere around them? And the thought in your head right now is..."but I have a job, a family, classes to attend...how am I supposed to live like this?"

James 4:13-17:
Look here, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit." How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog--it's here a little while, then it's gone. What you ought to say is, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that." Otherwise you are boasting about your own plans, and all such boasting is evil. Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.

"Plan with kingdom principals, but live in His presence."-Bill Johnson (on a teaching about this scripture)

LIVE IN HIS PRESENCE!! Have a fierce love affair with the Lord, and stop trying to be a good Christian!!