Wow we cannot believe Maly and I have less than a month of lecture phase left in our DTS. Time has definately flown by! Maly and I are constantly being stretched which is a place we hope to be for the rest of our lives. Honestly I believe the biggest reason we are in England is to get a better worldview and to see the world from a different perspective. God has already done a lot of that in our lives. This last week we learned a lot about identity and our passions and really for me was a week of pressing into God and hearing his voice. Sometimes I believe God hides himself just to see if we will conitnue to seek him and that's really what this last week was for me. My pressing question is were do we find our identity and what where we created for. This is something our world desperately needs and something we all struggle with. God reminded me to make sure my identity is in him and not in something I do. I have a burning passion...I guess a belief that we where created for intimacy with God. Out of this and only this will all else flow out of. It's scary to think there are Christians who find there identity in their job or title and yet how easy it is to fall into this trap. A good question to ask ourselves is "do I seek God for what he does or can do or do I seek God for who he is?"

Yes the title pretty much sums up this past week. God is doing a lot of mind shifting in our lives especially in our worldviews. This weeks lectures were really on the cross and how it has been represented in history. Lynn Green (the chairman of YWAM) spoke on Mon and shared a lot about how often the cross and Chrisitanity has been so misrepresented to so many people! No wonder so many are cautious about Christianity and the cross, they have a wrong view about it and we as Christians have given it to them! Also a women named Cathy Nobles came and spoke about reconciliation and she had a ton of knowledge and wisdom gained from living in the Middle East for several years. We also went to a very diverse town called Luton where we went around and asked people what they thought about God. Needless to say many of them didn't want to talk about it even if they did believe in him. We are having a barn dance tonight and are looking forward to learning new ways to dance. God continues to show me how absolutely important love is, but also what it means to love. So many people think it means to never offend and to always compromise. Did Jesus offend anyone? oh yes I believe He did. Did Jesus every compromise his beliefs? Yes compromise your desires and wants, but also be careful not to compromise your beliefs. Remember we are called to be peacemakers, not peacekeepers!