1440 balloon animals.

This week we worked at the Monroe County Fair as a non-profit vendor. Representing the church, we just set up an area with chairs, stuff for kids, and balloons to make animals out of. We intended for this to be a place where people can come relax and have conversations as the Spirit leads us. It turned into a balloon fest.

Surprisingly people didn’t really want to sit and the kids really wanted balloons. It was cool.

There were a few other church booths set up. It was interesting to see them. One booth had this thing with 3 doors that said “see 3 things God cannot do” and they passed out little booklets that said “smile, jesus loves you.” and I’m sure the inside said something about being sinners and stuff. As I watched people “take” them, they just looked at the front and put it away.

Another booth was just passing out bibles to people who didn’t want them. That same booth tried to give me one and I just said “hey man, I don’t need another one, I already have 5 and I use them, so I don’t want to take one that someone else may use” and they jsut said, “well then, you can appreciate this one even more”…

… The bible was psalm, proverbs, and the NT. What happened to the Old Testament?

Why do we not read, much less mention the old testament? Somewhere in the NT (maybe many places) it says something like “And Paul, preaching the prophecies… blah blah people turned to Christ”… Ok, that was a WAY summed up version and probably sounds a lot different than what it really says.

I dunno, it just frustrates me a lot because I know in the Old Testament there are all sorts of things talking about Jesus and so much depth and importance and I was never taught any of it when I was younger. and now, being in college people try to give it to us expecting us to do I don’t know what with it, but it isn’t that simple.

I dunno, its never bugged me until now. It may not be that big of a deal, but it just seems weird to me right now.

I know, its some incomplete thoughts, but thats what happens a lot I guess.