The church I am going to is doing an `Un-Series'. The pastor is preaching from the book `Un-Christian'. I'm not sure what to say except that along with this Jesus is causing me to UN DO and UN THINK a lot of my Christianity. One of the quotes from the message today was, "Jesus went to parties with his disciples." I had to think of my teenage daughters. My older two teenage daughters go to parties. The whole thought of it dismays (and terrifies) my wife and I. We were not partiers (at their age). But I have had to face something: my daughters have TONS more friends than my wife and I. I wonder if there is a relation. My daughters have all kinds of friends. Many of them engage in behavior my daughters would not participate in - but they still accept these people. And these people keep coming to their parties - because they feel (consciously or sub) - that they are accepted. I have built a Christian religion now that is 32 years old, for me. And quite dry, and not much fun. If I want fun - I need to do things `outside' of it. I think that is being a hypocrite???!!! For crissakes I drink. My wife drinks now and then. We just do it privately. What's with that?!!! Shouldn't our lives, our fun, our faults, all be ONE (life)? I think so.

So I was walking by some college students socializing at church. One of them was inviting another over after church TO GET DRUNK. I was not in a college dorm. I was not at a bar. I was at CHURCH. It was kind of an out-of-mind experience.

But instead of rising up in condemnation, judgementalism, excommunicativism ... I just marveled. At least these people are ONE, transparent, and not afraid to have a good time. At least their lives are not compartmentalized (hypocritical).