In Bible, we watched an episode of the Secret Millionare. In this particular episode, a man named John Ferber, went to skid row to help out there and eventually give people they think need money a big check. First of all, I think that it is pretty awesome that this guy would would take time out of his day to come and help out in a place that really needs some serious work. I also thought is was pretty awesome that he got to sleep in skid row and live off of what a person usually has to live off of every day, which isn't much. I have heard a lot of stories about skid row and I thought I had an idea about what it would look like and I was about right. It was dirty and hectic, and there were tons of people sleeping in the streets.
I really liked the stories of all the people he helped, like the guy who makes the care packages and distributes clothes to people, the people that founded the basketball teams, and the children and women's home. It was great that he gave the people a lot of money and things that would help the community. But one thing that I didn't like is that he said at the end of the show something like," If you ever want to feel good about yourself, come down here and do something good." It was good that he wanted to help even though his motives weren't in the right place.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
DWYL Chapters 6 & 7
This past week we have been studying chapters 6 and 7 out of John Piper's book don't waste your life and a lot of what he said convicted me on some things in my life.
In class, we had to answer some questions and one that really got me was something like: If non-christians saw everything you spent your money on or how you spent your money would they be able to tell that you were a christian? I really hope that they would be able to tell by my actions and what I spend my money on.
Another thing that John Piper discussed in chapters 6 and 7 is the effects of T.V. and the internet on us. In my opinion, the greatest problem with T.V./internet is that there are many ways that the media makes a lot of things that are sinful seem ok. Three ways that the media negatively affects me is: 1. The reason I just stated, 2. It distracts me from things that are really important in life and 3. It implants a lot of ungodly ideas into my brain. The way I spend my time reading and studying the bible vs. T.V./internet time, I would have to say that I spend much more time than I should in the media than I should in God's word.
In class, we had to answer some questions and one that really got me was something like: If non-christians saw everything you spent your money on or how you spent your money would they be able to tell that you were a christian? I really hope that they would be able to tell by my actions and what I spend my money on.
Another thing that John Piper discussed in chapters 6 and 7 is the effects of T.V. and the internet on us. In my opinion, the greatest problem with T.V./internet is that there are many ways that the media makes a lot of things that are sinful seem ok. Three ways that the media negatively affects me is: 1. The reason I just stated, 2. It distracts me from things that are really important in life and 3. It implants a lot of ungodly ideas into my brain. The way I spend my time reading and studying the bible vs. T.V./internet time, I would have to say that I spend much more time than I should in the media than I should in God's word.
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