The Night Before

Not much to say about today.  Finished the powerboating course; in the morning we did some navigation theory and looked at different bouys and their indications and light sequences and also some chartwork.  Now got my powerboat level two qualification, which allows me to drive a powerboat on my own, and also allows me to tow other boats from a powerboat.  Did lots of highspeed work with the RIBs today, which was fun.
Yesterday night, however, was much more interesting.  Someone I'd met at catalyst picked me up from Cowes and drove me to Newport and the same church that Catalyst had been held at.  There was a house around the back which the church owned and we had the group in that.  There were shortbreads and haribo to be had and cups of tea :D Generally we just had a laugh but had a few discussions that went on that were rather good (who knew church bells cost so much! :O) 
Each of the main four peeps who originally started the group a few months back had brought their own contribution to the evening. They were some great guys and adults who wanted to see more action, more unity and more love going on within chuch communities.  We also came up with the idea of an Obese English Church... yes, obese.  We take everything in - singing, praying, reading the bible etc all this energy - but we do very little exercise and, just like obesity, it makes us lazier and kind of puts ourselves into a situation which has very real health risks, at least, spiritually.
One of our final conclusions was: but who are we to make such comments and conclusions?  Who are we to say to the church "this is where you're not good enough; this is where you should be better"?  For ouselves, we are called to be as humble as we can, and when we've acheived that, be humbler still.  It's not to focus on other's inadequacies and faults, but upon our own, that's probably what we should be working on, rather than trying to change other people or change the church. 
As we begin to go anti-culture, saying "I am sinful - end of, I'm not better than anyone else.  I can barely stop from crying because of the evil that goes on.  I won't fight to the last breath for what I deserve because I know I deserve nothing. I can't stop myself from striving towards justice and equality, but  I refuse to judge others.  I'll knuckle down to the job of carrying out maintenance on my heart so that it's pure.  In everything I do I'll try to bring peace and if I come to be beat up because of this, well, so much the better." then everything begins to shift by itself. 
Let's live this, even if it's not what we feel like doing. 
This has rather been a splurge of my thoughts than a proper blog post of the sort it should be, but ah well.  Tangents upon tangents of thoughts have produced this or, as I've heard David Ruis say before, my thoughts are rather like rabbits... one will pop up hop away and then another will and another and there'll suddenly be multitudes of them.  (Our conversatoins yesterday night were very similar.)