I am in my last days here in Guadalajara. This time has been some of the most growing in my life. I’ve spent a lot of time with people who don’t think or believe like me to some extent. Some of my new friends are totally lost and outside of Christ, others were just starting to take steps toward Jesus, and others have been with Him for years but finding new depths.
Theology has been on the forefront of my mind and heart as of late. Theology is simply the study of (ology) God (theo). How much we have added to this word! Would it shock you to hear that I have bad theology? What if I told you, you did as well?
Over the past week, I’ve had quite a few conversations with our hosts and friends here in Mexico about words and their meanings. In Spanish (and in english) some words mean multiple things in different settings (or contexts). For example, Real
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.
One of the biggest revelations of my entire life happened the day I realized the ploy of the enemy to keep me in this battle of right and wrong internally and that there was no escape until heaven. If you want to get what I mean read
Paul tells Timothy to “preach the word in season and out of season” (2 Timothy 4:2). Does this include when you know 20-30% of a foreign language? Camille and I have had to prepare
I’m in Guadalajara Mexico learning Spanish. The above sentence is actually quite complicated. Spanish isn’t spanish, just like English isn’t english. There is Columbian Spanish, Castilian Spanish, Mexican Spanish, and Spanish local to Guadalajara and pretty much every pueblo around it. In English, we have England English, USA English, Australian English, South African English and we can’t forget Southern English, y’all.
