So I road up to Rosemead this morning to go to a small conference at a church about bridging the gap between the GLBT, and the church.   The guest speaker was Andrew Marin, founder of the Marin Foundation.  He had some really good things to say about the church, and about how we should respond to people in the GLBT community.   He summed it up in three basic points:

1. Its the Holy Spirit’s job to convict, Its God’s Job to judge, and its our job to love.
2. We are called to live in relation to and relationship with the GLBT community.
3. The number one way to encourage someone in the gay community to pursue a relationship with Jesus (which should be our goal as the church, not trying to make them straight) is to teach them, and affirm the belief that God exists, and desires a communicating relationship with them.

What I was so blown away by, was that this is really no different then how we respond to any community that needs Jesus, but for some reason we act so differently with GLBT community.  Anyway, if you have the time check out there site, themarinfoundation.org.  He was a fun speaker to listen to, and he had a lot of really good points.

On a completely different note, the 605 has got to be the worst freeway to ride a bike on.  It is so bumpy, and just overall scary compared to any other freeway I have been on, even the worse then the 710.  I am the only that feels this way?

And lastly what is up with the fires today, it is really gross outsibe, and I saw on the news that over 10,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.  Lets remember to pray for then today.

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