I was writing on my students' notebooks and noticed it was 911 yesterday. I was quite surprised that I didn't see any news relating to the disaster either on the internet nor on the news.....maybe I just didn't pay enough attention....or maybe people just forget things easily. I am not sure how many people would remember things from 10 or 20 years ago. It's amazing how many years ago 911 happened too. I still remember our 1st east coast tour with er ge was right after the incident. Getting old man....
I was reading this book called "Dateable" which Annie tried to read but apparently was never able to finish. Most of the stuff talked about in the book is kinda useless to me now, and I actually knew 80% of everything.....However I thought one section is interesting enough to share here. The chapter discusses how male and female should be if they really want to get the relationships they desire.
Most girls would say that they like "bad boys"...and do you know why? Well....it's because the "good guys" are too quiet, too shy, too boring, and too feminine. Interesting enough huh? basically the book is saying most "Christian guys" are not really guy-like and they don't know how to be leaders, thus making it hard to like for girls. The author says all guys should go back to read Bible and notice the good guys in the Bible are adventurous, persistent, passionate, courageous, exciting, take initiatives, etc.
So what the writer suggests the guys to do is to be 1. Passionate in life. (Be passionate in everything you do and be able to take lead and make decisions in life) 2. Confident. (One has to feel confident in himself and then confidence would come after he is used to being confident of himself. Make up your minds on things you want to do and be responsible to the decisions also helps on building up confidence.) 3. Powerful with strength. (Strength comes from God so there is nothing to be afraid of. ) 4. Courageous. 5. Adventurous. (Enjoy life to the fullest and be touched with all things in life. )
If the "good guys" can accomplish all of those above, then maybe girls don't need to go after the bad guys any more. Well....right....if the good guys can.... Alright, I will post the "girls must do" part next.....but now lunch is more imp.
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If a person's looking for a longterm relationship, integrity, flexibility, and a giving nature are 3 must-have qualities! However, due to our sinful nature, those are hardly the qualities we'd find 'attractive' at first. In fact, too much of those fundamental qualities might cause you to look like a loser! Plus, these qualities can only be observe over a long period of time, it's really easy to fake them initially... so unless you really know the person that well, these 3 qualities probably won't be so apparent at first anyway.
Yes, Jesus has those qualities people find attractive initially, but most importantly he also has these 3 basic 'loser' qualities too. He'd willingly go on the cross precisely because of those 3 'loser' qualities. While he was on that cross, he no longer looked very attractive, powerful, adventurous... people may even find his passion kinda 'stupid'... and people did begin to leave and deny him because they begin to see him as a loser.
But to those who truly love him, they followed Jesus to the end.
But of course the ultimate end for us Christians isn't always on the cross! That is only the beginning. Resurrection cannot happen without crucifixion! No pain, no gain.
In a society where good becomes bad and bad becomes good, Jesus really is the ultimate rebel, the ultimate bad boy! ;)
Yes, if guys at church really seriously imitated their Lord, attracting chicks really shouldn't be a problem at all..., but just don't expect a worldly princess to want to follow you to the cross though. But you probably don't want to attract a worldly princess anyway... this is for your own good! ;)
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