Interesting blog post

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Alone

You just can’t understand me
Acting like you’ve got it all figured out
Standin’ top of your mountain
Waving your finger at me like I am the idiot
Well I’ve got a finger that I want you to see

Feel the walls closing in on me
about all the people in this world
Why can’t I get away?
Why can’t I hide from them?
I just want to be alone

Saw another child die on TV today
So much hurt in this God forsaken place
Trying to dodge the bullets of pain and violence
All I can do is shake, I am so afraid
Is there any hope to cling to?

Now don’t give me your shallow comments
Leave all your cliché’s at home
I’m not interested in a word to make it better
I just want to run from it all
I just want to be alone

Pushed down the path of destruction
Get me off this lonely way
Don’t make me go the way that I need
It sounds too painful for me
I just want to be alone

Interesting Conversation

Recently I was chatting with a person from our missional faith community who was wrestling with the thought that God might send someone to hell for not believing in Jesus. Her thinking was that her friend lived a life that blessed humanity more so than most Christians she knew. He had compassion for the poor and longed for peace in the world. He lived a moral life and was striving to find truth in this world that pointed to something beyond himself. The only problem was, he was rejecting the Christian faith. Not in a militaristic sort of way, he just wasn't buying it. She said that he was frustrated and hurt by Christians telling him that unless he would become a Chrisitan and believe in Jesus, he would go to hell no matter what he did for people and the world. "If this is the kind of God that Christians worship, I want nothing to do with Him" was what he was feeling.

How do we respond to a situation like this? Thoughts???