The other day in Bible Class we switched thing up a bit.. Our "Villa Dad", John, gave us an apologetics class. Basically, he gave us a couple of guidelines on how and why we need to be able to defend what we believe, and then he asked us who wanted to be his opponent....
I didn't last more than five minutes. My first question I had to answer was "if God is a loving God, why does he let people babies be burned in microwaves in America? ...So I had my response in my head, and then I was just lost... lost in the middle of a group of 30 students waiting on my response, with a well-trained apologetics, ex-U.S. Ranger looking me in the eyes.
It wasn't as horrifying as that (maybe) sounds because a couple of other students all had the same experience, but man! I want to be able to answer people when they ask me why I believe these crazy things I do.
The other Sunday the leaders were calling people up on stage. I saw people around pointing to their brothers, daughters, friends etc., and then the people that were pointed at would walk up on stage. So, I decided I would point at Will (boy in my church group). Turns out they were calling for people with birthdays in November. Will's birthday is in May.
Some other things I've had going on here are mentoring and discipleship. One of my discipleship groups is a study of the book Calm My Anxious Heart, and the other is on Spiritual Warfare. I especially like Spiritual Warfare. I've become a lot more familiar with my enemy's tactics. Mentoring is awesome too. I've had many people "mentor" me in my life, we've just never really called it that. It's just good to have someone that I have to make myself vulnerable to every week.
Also.. I might've mentioned this in my other posts, but we've really just been having a LOT of attacks from the Devil. Just please pray that we won't fear Satan. God's already defeated him. And God's in us. So please pray we will fear God only.
One of my brothers here was really having heavy spiritual attacks. It tore me seeing him in the state he was in. It tore everyone... but it really brought our group so much closer together. We are all so burdened for each other... and God really has been listening to our prayers.
We just had a 24 hour prayer and worship day. This summer I started going to a 24-hour House of Prayer (IHOP) and really just got a glimpse of what the Body of Christ is supposed to be. God gave us gifts so that we could bless others with them. So we thought we would have a full day of prayer and worship specifically praying for when we're home. We started at 10 Sunday night and went until 10 monday night. It was really awesome. Our main praying points were: not getting back into old sin, for unbelievers we know to come to know Christ, and that God will help us tell people boldly about Him.
This will probably be my last post before I leave, but thank you everyone for supporting me in following this.
I will return to Costa Rica on the 7th/8th of January.
Merry Christmas!
ps: I was invited to my first Costa Rican birthday party tonight! woop woop! I'm becoming Tican! ...well I probably won't be able to go because I have exams.. but I felt honored!
Adios amigos! Feliz Navidad!
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