March 5, 2007
Phew, what a year this has turned into. I can easily name off ten amazing moments I have had at Biola, and also name off a couple where I felt as if I had been thrown into the dumpster of life. I remember our floor (The Corps, third floor Hope North) first coming together. A bunch of wild college freshman fleshing out their extreme excitement to start their new life. I cant even number the amount of games we played in tat first week together. Football, Frisbee, waffle ball,
wrestling, on and on! We never separated from each other. We walked as if we were one. We ate together, left the dorm together, and did everything else together. And this is about 30 guys.
Then the semester started and real life started and business took our lives and even some of our relationships. This is something I would of thought about if I weren’t in the ecstasy of new college beginnings, but I was, so I didn’t think about it. Guys started to not care about each
other, or at least start to have more important things to do. Man, I remember this one night. I think it was like the third day after moving in. We had the most amazing worship night ever in our floor lounge.
It was powerful, God had blessed us amazingly. It went on for about 2 hours. Prayer, admonishment, and praise. I thought that Satan would just hand in his resignation sheet as the deceiver after he heard the praises of that night, but he didn’t. Like I said school started…after a week or two it was like pulling teeth to try and get the guys to come and worship. How I longed for another night like that. But it seemed like a whole which couldn’t be crossed. So the floor, which is still a sweet community, cooled off whenever it came to us being intentional about building each other up or simply coming together and singing praises.
Now I don’t want to sound like I am always up for meeting together and doing all these things together, but nonetheless I had, and still do hope that our floor comes together and starts being intentional about the kingdom of God and our purpose set by God, instead of wasting time on
stuff that’s gonna burn. Ya know?
But God is moving, I see it. More and more guys are coming together. Talking about the important things, not just starcraft. Both them and I are starting to realize the absolute necessity of a Christ centered community. We need each other…
