A Year Later.

It has now been a year since I left YWAM Tyler. When I left I went to Delaware to stay with my parents until School started. I spent that time Working at GameStop. I left Delaware and started College Jan. 2nd 08. So I am now Living in Lima for 4 years until I graduate. It has been hard for me until lately. Since I didn't know anyone, didn't like the locals and couldn't find a good local church It has been a hard 9 months.

God is good, I have lately been hanging out with a few people at the Coffee shop I am now working at and have developed some good friendships with a few local people.

I am working towards a bachelors degree in automotive high performance and alternative fuels in business.

My hope is to get my loans paid off ASAP so that I would be able to go back into ministry full time. This has been a good time for me to really study more and dive deeper into God's word.

I would like to thank all of you that have supported me through the years. God could not have done so much through me without your help.

Next summer a few friends and I will be living in Chicago for a bit.....HOMELESS. We want to experience life through their eyes and walk a mile in their shoes. I would like to take an undercover video camera and make a documentary out of it.

Thank you

-Ben

Bride, Son and Servant?

We were having a prayer time and started praying about being servants of Christ. In the bible we are called to be servants of Christ, and yet we are called Sons and the Bride of Christ? Would seem to me that these are 3 different elements.

Servant: Serves the masters will, does the work that is asked of him by the master. A servant in biblical times was usually someone who was debted to the master. He had a debt that he owed and sold himself into servanthood in order to pay it off. It was a choice they made to work for the master instead of going to jail for what they owed. In the same way we are to do the work of the master, we are not only ment to serve but that servanthood was bought at a price and is nearly a work owed to the master for what he has done.

Son: So often it seems that people think the way a child acts is a reflection of the parents. In the same way we should be a reflection of God whom has redeemed us. When people look at us do they see just another person or a person who has been saved by grace and reflects their father in heaven?

The Bride: The bride is the most intimate person in your life, they know everything about you and you know everything about them. God calls us his bride and this is no small task. We are to know Christ deeper than anyone else, and not in any small detail. We are called to be in a deeply intimate relationship in which we know God just as deeply as he knows us.

Made me really think last night.
Just a thought.
-B3n

My apologies.

It has been a while since I last posted. I hope this week to give more info on what happened and what is going on now.

-Ben