Meetups and Geek Witness

I went skating with some homestucks and not a lot happened but it was cool. I tried on john’s glasses and skated around with that john and a nepeta holding hands with them (it was kind of awkward at first I wasn’t expecting it… I don’t know why people like to do that while skating, but people link up ALL THE TIME and I was trying to be friendly so I went with it). Also a Sis strider was nice to me and I got priority pizza because I'm vegetarian and two people thought they recognized me though I’d never seen any of them before.

I would have cosplayed had I been ready, but I had only heard about it a few hours beforehand and skipped youth group to go.

I’m pretty sure that’s okay though.

Once my pastor said something like “if your non-christian friend wants to talk to you on a Sunday morning it’s okay to skip church” the point being, that reaching the lost is more important than having perfect attendance marks.

And man, I realized something.

(the following is what I wrote in my sketchbook on sunday)

"...wanna be so much more excited about Jesus than stories, all those little worlds. But I think it's also ok to really like those little worlds, God has given us these great imaginations to create little worlds, we're created in His image-He's a creator and we are creators in His image, we make ittle worlds and they can be so amazing and extensive and then we have to realize these little worlds--they are just that, little! God's world is SO BIG we don't even know how big it is!! the world God created is REALITY! So cool!"

(and here is where it gets to the part where it relates to the homestuck)

"Geeks have SO much potential to get SO excited about God and His story! The outpouring of creativity and fan material I see is incredible! Imagine if all that passionate, unabashed excitement was channeled toward the praise of God! Imagine! Excitement is so infectious, there have been many shows etc that I've gotten into simply because I saw so many people discuss it or fangirl excitedly. Is this what it's like to have a heart for people? I just wanna infect the nerd world with a Jesus-excitement, the internet my mission field, conventions my mission trips, and art, writing and genuine excitement as weapons of conquest!!!! I wanna go after these guys! i think the church doesnt seem to have much "geek appeal." but~~ there is so much to be excited about! God, send me where I am to reach these people!"

So here's the deal. My pastor has been talking about neighboring (you know, building relationships and being witnesses to those right in your neighborhood.). I've been taking note but kind of holding off until I move to where I'll be living for the next year or so. But I kind of realized that my "neighborhood" and community is on TWIG and on tumblr, and I definitely want to do the building relationships thing where I am right now--in a virtual sense! XD