My First Post
Hello,
As a spanking new Luther Seminarian, I like to thank the very few of you who has the patience to visit this little blog. (You bring tears to my eyes.)
This blog will contain my thoughts, opinions, and reflections. It will NOT contain any personal secrets, gossips, and trivial occurances. I would like to both inform and entertain. I write this blog mostly for my fellow Luther seminarians from summer Greek and a few other friends, since its contents is by nature esoteric. (If I talk to my best friend about God or philosophy, he would fall asleep in no time.)
I create this blog for many purposes. Besides being a personal exercise of my own nerdiness, I like to use it as a mean to stimulate thoughts and discussions. In time I will have some deep thoughts. Also I wouldn't mind getting into very dangerous territories, such as the doctrine of hell, double predestination, the problem of evil, abortion, homosexuality, and etc... Normally you wouldn't want to get involved in difficult discussions in public. Also I believe truths or any good ideas should be proselytized. I hope to challenge your beliefs and in return have my own belief challenged. I love to have you read my blogs carefully, and I love to see some feedbacks.
I'll begin with a very brief personal facts:
1. My undergraduate degree was electrical engineering & physics. I worked in industry for 5 years as an wireless design engineer. My stint with the coffee shop is merely to buy time so that I can ponder about my future and still have a source of income.
2. I respect other people's opinion, and sometimes too much so. I think it is crucial to consider all different points of view, no matter how absurd, and understand how different people come up with different conclusions. That requires thinking from a different box then the one that I am acustomed to. Refusal to think outside of one's box creates close mindedness.
3. I am an inept Christian mystic, armchair philosopher, and amature theologian.
4. I am studying to become a pastor or theologian. I don't think I can be both because of limited youth and resources.
5. I do feel like the Lord has called me to do ministry, but I am currently in a state of denial.
6. I am looking for a new church, maybe a Lutheran one. My church is way too large.
As a spanking new Luther Seminarian, I like to thank the very few of you who has the patience to visit this little blog. (You bring tears to my eyes.)
This blog will contain my thoughts, opinions, and reflections. It will NOT contain any personal secrets, gossips, and trivial occurances. I would like to both inform and entertain. I write this blog mostly for my fellow Luther seminarians from summer Greek and a few other friends, since its contents is by nature esoteric. (If I talk to my best friend about God or philosophy, he would fall asleep in no time.)
I create this blog for many purposes. Besides being a personal exercise of my own nerdiness, I like to use it as a mean to stimulate thoughts and discussions. In time I will have some deep thoughts. Also I wouldn't mind getting into very dangerous territories, such as the doctrine of hell, double predestination, the problem of evil, abortion, homosexuality, and etc... Normally you wouldn't want to get involved in difficult discussions in public. Also I believe truths or any good ideas should be proselytized. I hope to challenge your beliefs and in return have my own belief challenged. I love to have you read my blogs carefully, and I love to see some feedbacks.
I'll begin with a very brief personal facts:
1. My undergraduate degree was electrical engineering & physics. I worked in industry for 5 years as an wireless design engineer. My stint with the coffee shop is merely to buy time so that I can ponder about my future and still have a source of income.
2. I respect other people's opinion, and sometimes too much so. I think it is crucial to consider all different points of view, no matter how absurd, and understand how different people come up with different conclusions. That requires thinking from a different box then the one that I am acustomed to. Refusal to think outside of one's box creates close mindedness.
3. I am an inept Christian mystic, armchair philosopher, and amature theologian.
4. I am studying to become a pastor or theologian. I don't think I can be both because of limited youth and resources.
5. I do feel like the Lord has called me to do ministry, but I am currently in a state of denial.
6. I am looking for a new church, maybe a Lutheran one. My church is way too large.
posted by doulos theou | 10:55 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Joe, I like your blog so far:). It sounds pretty accurate, you're not pretending you're something your not, that's always good. Let me know how you like Luther.
~Mandy
yeah, I'm lazy, haven't logged in yet...
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