My Image
Posted by Ryan Woods
I found out last week that the sister of a woman who comes to our home community (whom I met at a wedding) thinks that I used to be a cool kid! No seriously, her impression of me was that I was like the cool kid jock in high school that everyone loved! The reason it came up was because she was wondering what my dad was like and how my dad would have approved me, the cool kid, marrying a hippie girl!
This is the best day of my life! (I hope you can tell my be excessive use of exclamation points that I'm very excited about this news).
The next bit of identity news is that while at a store last week a guy came up to Jessica, Matt (one of the associate pastors at Renovatus), and myself and asked if we knew the Lord! Do you know what that means? It means that we don't look like church goers. It means that we look like our neighbors! Why am I excited about this you ask? Well it's just that we've decided that when the Bible says to be in the world but not of the world I don't think it's refering to clothing and hair styles but rather a way of living and loving. Anyway, while I'm cool with wearing shirts that proclaim the gospel message, I don't feel as though t-shirt evangelism is the most effective type...I could say more about this but I feel as though it's distracting from my excitement!!!
Here's the dealio yo: In Jr. High I carreid around a cork head. Yep. No need to explain much because it won't really help. I had a head made of balsa wood that had a face carved in it. And I carried it around. Me and two of my freinds had micky mouse hats with the three stooges names on the back...I'm not sure why...In high school and all thorugh my college years I had a pickeled shark that I named Alan Cornell Jr. I didn't get my drivers liscence until I was 17 and in the mean time my dad dropped me off at Clark College in either the churches big fifteen passenger van or in our old beat up truck that was painted to look like the galaxy. Need I say more? I was not and am not the cool kid! In no shape, way, or form am I or have I ever been even near the cool kid...maybe I'll do that Drew Barrymore or Billy Madison thing and go back to school and try to relive it as the cool kid...maybe not...but for now I'm going to revel in the thought that there are two people in the world that think I look cool. I'm pretty sure Jesus would be proud.
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