some other time?

"Faith in college. Was it all real?"

That's the note/blog entry title I wanted to sit down and type at this perfect hour of 1:33am. Mark it as blog #2 I commit to writing before graduation that will turn out to be basically a short paper. Hm, maybe I'll try to outline my thoughts now.

*Note: the paper would probably be in context with people who have grown up in the church, accepted Christ, etc.
*Post-outline note* I just realized this is encompassing too much material from all spheres of my college experience. Everything from the struggle to finding out whether my faith was MY faith to the emergent church to the role of Intervarsity and why I think God's put me in it, to the continual reminder of how absolutely vital theology is, to the particular college I attend, church in general, the gospel, etc. Eh. I wish this was my homework. Even if no one else read it, I easily wouldn't mind spending hour upon hour writing it.

I. Intro explaining title, thesis, and why it even matters
a. my background journey on what to make of Christianity
1. particular emphasis on senior year of high school summer to current day
2. objective overview of how I've seen it play out with
a. recent post-grad friends/ppl i know
b. peers/friends who are my age
c. current but younger college students
3. how I think it might play out with incoming college students.
II. My fears: Apathy being cool
III. My plea: Don't be put off by the word "theology." There's too much at stake. Time to study.
IV. Time to get to work. We're a sent people.

In the end, I think I'm getting myself too riled up for this. My hope, my dream, my longing is that there'd be a resurgence of men and women who absolutely adore the explicit gospel of Jesus Christ; men and women who without hesitation would give their lives for its preservation. I long to be one of those people and want to invite whoever is willing to join the pursuit. As the song goes, we really are all just playing the "background" but I just wanna play my part well.

To the glory of Christ,
-jon