there’s this group that i try to stay involved in (sadly, i don’t always get around to going with my schedule…) called Greek Street Fellowship.  it’s a bunch of people who are in greek houses who are chalenging the ideas of greek vs. christian, and instead saying greek AND christian… why not?

it’s not very big, and our discussions tend to go around some of the same 4 or 5 topics, and there are times where we don’t have much to say or talk about, but the group is learning and growing in the way it works and that’s cool to see.

last night, we were talking about how to put god into our everyday lives, and the girls leading started out by saying that they too struggle with this… and not just that they struggle, but that they, in fact, feel that they fail at this and want to get better.

i like that.

in society, if you’re failing at sometihng should you teach it?? NO WAY! if my profs told me they failed grad school, but want me to sit and listen to them teach for three hours a week, am i going to listen??  nope.  without a doubt i’d walk out of class (okay, well only if other people did, because even though i like to be rebelious, i’m still a rule follower who’s afraid to get in trouble by myself. haha)

but us Christians, we’re weird.  or at least we should be i think.  it should be opposite.  we should want the people who are self-proclaimed failing at something to teach on it.  because if they know they are failing (and assuming that they want to know Jesus better) then they want to get better.  they know that they are failing, and, being passionate about Jesus, they want to fix it.  they want to find the verses, stories, ideas, etc, to turn themselves around.  they aren’t just doing it as an assignment that they know needs to be done, they are doing for themselves too.  because they need it just as much, if not worse than the people they’re talking to.

so in that sense, they will give us, in their mind at least, they best inforrmation they can.  they have gathered the best of the best.  it would be the A+ paper instead of the B- one that has the information, but isn’t quiet as passionate.

so let’s learn from the failures around us.  literally!