May 21, 2004
Morrow is Coming
Matt Morrow is coming thru Austin on a trip tomorrow and I'll have the privilege of having lunch with him and his family. I'm looking forward to it. Perhaps I'll tell him to stop listening to so much metal music and settle down for some Steven Curtis Chapman, etc?
Nah.
Today in PDL the chapter is called "Becoming A World Class Christian." It contrasts the characteristics of a 'worldly' Christian and a 'world class' Christian. I remember Inter-Varsity Christian fellowship used the phrase 'World Christian' to describe someone who saw the big picture of world evangelism and the Great Commission as more than just a great suggestion. The contrast is pointed:
"A worldly Christian will go to concerts and conferences, but never to a missions conference...they are me-centered Christians..."
This is the sort of rebuke that I think only God can give to somebody. Do you know who the wrong person to give that rebuke probably is? It's that person who went to the missions conference at his church and asks his friend why she didn't go. "You spent money last week on the Third Day concert, but you won't even spend your time to think about the third world countries and come to our missions conference." It's just a misguided attempt to push personal convictions on someone else. Fortunately, this scenerio happens very little with mature Christians. They are the ones that, if they see a need or a potential area for growth (a deficiency) in another believer, they prefer to pray on it instead of prey on it like an self-appointed teacher/prophet from God.
Well, today might be the last day of deadline. Here's hoping we finish it up before this day expires. We have a slightly longer window for deadline now. It used to be 3 pm on Friday is what we'd aim for (as we could call in a Fed Ex pickup at 3, who came within two hours to pick up the discs and proofs). Then it was 8 pm, which gave me time to race to the Fed Ex office before it closed its doors at 9 pm. And now we are sending PDF files over the internet to our printer, so we can send our last file at 10:30 am Monday morning and equal the file delivery time of old. We still have to overnight proofs, but we can get those printed earlier and get those out in mid-afternoon and still be working and fine-tuning the files past that.
Have a great weekend.
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at May 21, 2004 07:49 AM