Oct 23, 2007
Searching for God
I finished Blue Like Jazz this week and started reading Second Chronicles, which reminds me that I don't have a church here yet.I started out going to Campus Crusade for Christ, or CRU (as in CRUsade--I apologize if you got that right away, but it bothered me for a while). It was cool and really relevant, but just not for me. Then my girlfriend, Brooke, and I went with a few friends of ours to check out the Presbyterian campus ministry, namely Reformed University Fellowship, or RUF. I was blown away by it and started going every Tuesday, and then every Wednesday, and then twice on Tuesdays...I may just drop out of school and go every day. The intern called me within a week, and we went out to eat together and talked about anything and nothing. What I like about RUF is that the minister swears when it's appropriate and the first time I hung out with some of the older guys in the group we were smoking pipes and dry cigars that should have been smoked months ago. Right now we are in the middle of a series on relationships talking about brokenness, insecurity, sex, and relating it all to God. This may all sound slightly terrifying, and it is, but I will keep going to RUF until we stop smoking, the minister stops swearing, and I feel like I have it all together when he speaks. My life is terrifying and abrasive, so anything else would simply be unrealistic.
My only problem is that RUF is not a church, and Brooke and I want/need a church. So far we've attended three different churches, and none of them seem to be...I don't know what. Right? Our church? Perfect? Collegiate? Part of my problem is that I don't even know what I'm looking for. The best churches I've ever been to have been like RUF and like people--none of them were perfect, but they served God in a real way and that was enough. We're still looking for an imperfect church. I will keep you posted.
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hello! my name's olivia and i am semi-impatiently awaiting admission to ut for fall 2008. i read blue like jazz a while back, i thought it was beautiful. not neccessarily the concepts, but the description of the sky as "blue like jazz" really got me. strange? nah. anyway, i'm from dallas, texas. my parents are moving to nashville after i graduate, where my father already works. like you, i'll be going home to a home that's not really mine. which is yet another troubling fact tagged on to my prospective college experience. i've already been accepted to a few schools here, but just recently discovered that as long as my parents have residence here before the first day of classes, i can get in-state tuition; thus, my fate is sealed. sorry for the rambling, but i was curious as to whether going to the school your parents wanted you to attend, and going home to an unfamiliar place is really as overwhelmingly terrifying as it sounds.
Not really. You make new friends, and learn new ways to get along with the ones you leave behind. It's hard, but not insurmountable, so don't worry, but be ready.
Okay. So my friends and I are wondering where that picture of the church/castle came from. Is that place in Knoxville? I've never seen it and have lived here my whole life. We googled it and found the church to be in the middle of a neighborhood street (not even a house). What's up?
Hah! I'm sorry if that was confusing; I never meant to trick anyone. That's the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. It was the prettiest picture of a church I had ever taken, so I thought I would post it. It really has nothing to do with the text except that it's a church. So, sorry again, and I'm glad you asked.
Thanks for clarifying
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