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High School Reunions

Just had my ten year high school reunion this weekend and had a lot of fun!

Seriously, it was fun.  But I do regret and was disappointed about one thing.

You know how it goes, you meet someone who you haven't talked to in ten years.  TEN YEARS!  It's like the difference between those days when you used to break out all the time and now all you want is a break.  I thought about this, and ten years ago:

Google was just starting to make waves

There was no text messaging

In fact, in high school, no one had a cell phone (that I know of)

People were still using AIM

My computer made strange beeping and scratchy noises whenever I connected to the Internet

And everyone thought the world was coming to an end at the end of the year (Y2K)

But after ten years lots of stuff has happened in the world and personally.  People looked pretty much the same, but our shared experiences in high school that brought us together for this reunion was now more of sharing our various experiences since that time.

The one thing that I regret, the one thing I was disappointed in, was myself.

I didn't get to talk about Jesus.  I did, because people would ask me what I was up to and being a pastor is probably the best "in" to start talking about God and faith, but I didn't get to share so much of why I became a pastor, why He's so important.

I shouldn't have waited for people to ask, I should have just shared.

Why?  Because Jesus isn't an idea to me.  It's not an "it", it's a He and because I believe (not out of fancy) in a real death and a real eternity, everyone ends up somewhere.  In a previous post I talked about sin, but I believe there is a greater horror than sin.

The greater horror is that we would reject God, we would rejected eternity with Him, we would reject our maker, the greatest lover of our wounded and dreadful souls which he wonderfully created.

But how do you start bringing something so important to the forefront of your conversation?  A little late to draw that out now, but would you think about it for a minute?