Tuesday, June 22, 2004

AY UP

(sorry for lack of updatage- will sort that out soon)
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Thursday, June 17, 2004

Plug for a friend of a friend's band
Stoney Lacuna

At the very least, you could listen to an MP3 of their stuff :p ("Constantly running" is particularly good)
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Goodbye Dan, Hello Mr Lucking
I'm off to St Mary's Primary School again in a few minutes, to help out voluntarily for the day.

The weirdest thing I have to get used to (which I allude to in the title) is the fact that all the kids call me "Mr Lucking"- and even all the teachers do, when around the kids. It's the weirdest feeling..
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Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Five-fold ministries
St Thomas's is kind of obsessed with what ministry you have. It's rubbed off on me a little bit. I just took the five-fold ministry test again, and my results came out slightly different from last time:

Last time-

Pastor 24
Evangelist 22
Teacher 21
Prophet 20
Apostle 8

This time-

Pastor 27
Evangelist 22
Prophet 20
Teacher 16
Apostle 14

Analysis-

So, in the last six months or so my pastoral-ness has just gotten stronger than it was before.

Evangelist and Prophet are still exactly the same, despite the fact that my prophetic gifting has outwardly increased, and I haven't really been doing that much evangelising in comparison to pastoral stuff.

My teacher-ness has gone right down below 20, but at the same time my apostolic tendencies have come out of the pit that is "<10", but not far enough to have a major effect on my ministry.


Mind you, answering all those questions was kind of a rush job, and I wasn't exactly sure what to put for some of them so I "rounded it down" (ie. put "Rarely" rather than "Sometimes" or "Sometimes" rather than "Often")

And then, I'm also:

moderately expressed introvert
slightly expressed sensing personality
slightly expressed feeling personality
slightly expressed judging personality

According to Jung/Myers-Briggs typology test
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Sunday, June 13, 2004

Two things:
1- TT has now officially finished.

It's kind of an odd feeling that comes with that, kind of a release into real life, where I get to decide a lot more of the details of how things are going to be from now on- rather than having two days every week, and a great number of weekends, planned out for me by someone else.

As of this Tuesday, I'm spending the time I would normally be in TT (Tues and Thurs) doing voluntary work at St Mary's Primary School, just up the road (where "up the road" means "up[i]hill[/i], along the road"- and it's quite a steep hill)

2- Daniel 2:30 is an amazing verse I came across today:

"As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because I have greater wisdom than any other living men, but so that you, O king, may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind".

The context is that Daniel was about to share both the King's dream and the interpretation (Read Daniel 2 to understand better). But he did so in such a way that he made it known that God did not choose Daniel to recieve the word because he was particularly brilliant, but rather he wanted to communicate with the king, and happened to use Daniel at the time.

Christians out there, if you do nothing else, then pray that God would make you more like that- willing to be used as a messenger, not because you are particularly brilliant, but because He has a message to send.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2004

*Waves to person upstairs and about 12 foot away right now*
HI JUDE!

Jude stumbled onto heren hour or so ago, and has been catching up on my life's gossip since :p.
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Monday, June 7, 2004

Unfortunate side effect from Rome
..I have discovered the pure joy that is the Ham and Mozzerella Sandwich.

If you've never tried it, I recommend you do.
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Introducing
Alex Lucking

Earlier on today I discovered that my little brother has made his myotaku debut. (He signed my guestbook)

Be sure to go sign his guestbook or something.
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In-jokes from the Rome trip
1- *extend a hand, preferably to someone you already know very well already* "Hi, I'm _____ from _____"

2- "ROB! YOUR SLEEVE'S ON FIRE!" or "ROB! YOU'RE ON FIRE"

3- (when Rob changed his T-Shirt) "Rob, you've lost your fire..."

4- *italian accent* "WHATTA YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT?"

5- *talking about whatever you are eating* "In my country, we call this 'Sicilian Style' *food name here* "

I actually can't think of any more.

1- Already explained that

2- Rob has a t-shirt with a picture of a flame on the sleeve, and a bigger one on the chest. So Ben kept on saying "Rob, your sleeves on fire" Rob never really found it that funny. But on Friday night Doug was on a sugar high and we were talking about sending him out on mission while high on sugar- when he walked down the stairs.
Everyone was quiet, Doug asked why, so Ben said "Rob told a joke", to which Rob said "hehe.. I'M ON FIRE".

You kind of had to be there, but that was the pinnacle of the joke- the only time it was really, unmistakably funny.

I was having breathing problems at the time, so I could hardly breathe at all after that...

3- Then rob covered up/changed his shirt- so we made a joke out of that instead..

4- Apparently one day in TT two years ago, Mel Callidine asked one of the TTs if he understood what was being said. He did. But then Marco suddenly burst out "WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT?" Apparently he never could understand Mel's voice- I've never met him so I don't know what he actually sounds like.

5- Doug told us that about 5 different things we ate were called "Sicilian Style" back in the US. so we just started calling everything that...

Again, very little in terms of a meaningful update.. but heh. You're in on all the in-jokes now..
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Explanation on Uruguay
So why did I say I was from Uruguay?

Well, every day in Rome, Marco (one of the guys we were staying with- the leader of the church) would come down the stairs to us and say "Hello. My name is Marco, and I'm from..." and he'd say a different country each day.

So by the end of the trip, we were catching on, and doing it back to Marco, to each other, and to random people who didn't really know why we were doing it.

Will post more later on- need to go to the doctor's first (will explain that too)
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