A new something.

It’s a rainy day in Colorado, I feel relaxed and without worry, even though I have a test in a few hours. This is my first blog since my other blogspot account since...it’s been a while. I lost the password to my other account and I don’t have the e-mail address that the account was attached to. This is a fresh start.

I live in a community of believers, called the Ghetto. We are broken brothers of Christ. We strive daily to become more like Christ, but we fall. We admit our failures, but we celebrate the good that we are doing. I like to put stress on living in a community. When you live in a community it is like living outside of the world. If I need any sort of assistance I can walk a few short steps and it is most likely provided. If I need something fixed I can easily get it done. We almost live off of favors, instead of money, and owing people in financial terms. How beautiful. There can be a lot gleaned from living in a community like this.

I am going to reiterate a little about myself from my last profile. This is something new, quite possibly I have changed from a year ago. I find myself at the crossroads everyday. What should I believe? What is authoritative? Who is right and who is wrong? Do I follow ethical issues to closely...is that even possible for a Christian today?
If you don’t already know I like to commentate on the current issues. I believe as Christians we should not be silent on biblical issues that we see today. I am not saying to stand up in the middle of a service or a seminar or whatnot. But think, engage, and talk to the right people.

I am 21 years old and for that past few years I have been noticing a significant amount of paradoxes in our society today. I engage with the issues that are plaguing our world today. I grew up in a Republican household. I thought of Democrats as evil and deceitful. I remember the Bill Clinton incident quite well, this is what I saw the party as. I have come a long way since then (as it should be) I usually don't agree with both parties. Call me a political misfit if you want but I as you, what was Christ? What was His political standing? I know there are people out there that say He was a Republican others are convinced that He was a Democrat. Though the ideologies have been around forever, these are man-made terms and parties, we can not attribute them to Jesus Christ. He was either, He even overthrew a political empire by His death. To publicly proclaim Christ was to say the Caesar was not lord.

So to say I fall in the middle, I take a third way. I am not someone who is a “moderate” because if we stand in the middle of the road we are standing among the roadkill. I am a Christ follower. There is this movement of “Red Letter Christianity” with leaders like Jim Wallis and Tony Campolo. We have seen the advent of the Red Letter Bible, the words of Christ are in red. The name was given by a secular radio host saying that these people are following the words of Christ. We base our political views off of the teachings of Christ and we are sure not to leave out the rest of the Bible. If I where to put any name to my beliefs it would be this. If you are questioning this I would advise you to research this. Or you can always ask me to expound on this, I will be happy to do this.

My site name is Pax Vobiscum. It means “peace be with you all” in Latin. That said Peace be with you (Pax Vobiscum)