Sitting on a flying cloud

Classes and work are here again…

(I’m a High school teacher and also I study at the university)

This is one of the “other sides” of this interesting city I live in. Apart from the beautiful landscapes, the cold weather and the snow you have buildings, houses, people, people and people.

And for me… that’s challenging. I (well, not just me) want to lead everybody in Rio Grande into the Kingdom of God. I want to “go and make disciples“. And that is, basically, working with people.

Unlike some years ago, now I realize that you can’t be a “disciple maker” without spending time with the people you want to lead to Christ. You have to walk with them, talk to them, listen to them (yes, I know this one is hard for most of us), laugh with them, cry with them, drink their coffees and mates (this option only works here ^^) and love them.

We cannot preach the Gospel without the LOVE part. And not the “I love you because of who you’re going to be” but “I love you now, as you are” (as Kurt Cobain said… just kidding).

This photo was taken in a forest in Ushuaia, 200 kms from here (Rio Grande), while I was in our summer camp.

It’s a wonderful place. I’ll post during the next days some other photos I took there.

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness“.

Genesis 1:26a (NVI)

For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Romans 8:29 (NVI)

Reading i Microsiervos I stumbled across Mp3gle, a Google-like search engine for MP3s. It seems pretty useful, so I’m going to give it a try.

Cold war kids is one of the bands I ran across lately, and I’ve been listening to them a lot. This video from La Blogotheque is just great… I really like these kinds of street shows they make. Check also the Andrew Bird video in their website.

If I hadn’t lived this experience before, I wouldn’t believe all those guys who where there that night.

We were in the last night of our summer Camp, and after the meeting we (the leaders) were praying for the boys and girls when the Holy Spirit came and… well, the video shows it pretty well. That lasted aprox. 1 hour, it was incredible and funny =)

I’ve met some people who find it hard to believe in these kind of experiences. It was the same for me at first, taking into account that I was raised in a very conservative Baptist church (I also got many good things from there, just in case =) and I’m still in a Baptist church (not conservative at all, as you can see in the video). I can’t say that everybody in that night was really under the Holy Spirit influence, or if some were faking it… but I have experienced that before, and when it comes… you can’t control it nor fake it. Thanks God the Holy Spirit is more powerful and creative than any of us!