Now I don’t know what it means to be a father, I hope to some day, but in the past few years I’ve wrestled with being a man and what that means. The more and more I think about being a man I see how my own father has shaped me and that often paralyzes me with fear that someday I might misshape my son! All of us men have had a dad! I mean we couldn’t be here without one, but all of our fathers have had positive and negative effects on you and I as men (and this goes for women too, but I’m specifically referencing men). This morning I read a great blog entry from Anthony Bradley’s blog over at THE RESURGENCE and it challenged me to think about my dad and the men I seek to minister to in the college arena.
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Archives for September 2006
where have i been and some ministry methodology
Good Sunday Morning! I sat down at my computer this morning and read an email from a friend who asked me, where I was and why there have been no blog entries in nearly a month. I don’t really have a good excuse and I guess for this reason I should apologize to you my faithful reader.
But life has been very full down here in Xenia, Ohio. I’ve been trying to adjust to the life of campus ministry in the United States for the last month and a half. It has been a bit of an adjustment for me. See the nearly two years I spent on STINT in Czech the ministry methodology was strictly relational and now the methodology is still relational but it also has a ton of programmatic flavor to it. It is the programmatic method of ministry that I grew used to in college, as I was heavily involved with Campus Crusade for Christ at UW-Oshkosh, but my methods of ministry had to severely shift as I moved to middle Europe where 90% of the people say, “I’m Czech, I’m an atheist.” In this environment programs just don’t work. No one would come. It more than often is a waste of our precious time.
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