I like your Bible!

Tuesday started off in the morning (as most Tuesday do, i fear!) but for me it was a particularly early morning i woke up at 6:30 so that i could get the train into town to meet Cat and then go to CU, but yeah i missed the train and had to get the next one, but we stil met and went to CU!

CU prayer and Praise (8 till 9 in the Chaplaincy at Strathclyde Uni, hint hint!!) is such a great way to start off the day in the right frame of mind! From there it was a little banter and sitting about before i went to meet Gary (Smith, from the Baptist Union) to catch up and discuss the summer, so it looks like i could be doing Step Out Plus this summer, all summer, but will share more on that later in another blog! Then it was off to meet Cat again to go to uni.

We had a lecture on disability in schools, and then a tutorial on it, it was actually really interesting and made for some good discussion. From there it was back home for an hour or so for some dinner and then back into town for Small Group. We're nearing the end of our Pure course and tonight was all on marriage and singleness, again lots of good banter and bible studying. We ended the session by hearing some Christian chat up lines, (like the title of the blog!) i was going to say not all of them were very good, but i'll need to rephrase that to all of them were more or less rubbish! some were even extremely worrying like 'Oh you are cold, Ecclesiastes 4:11' (i'll leave you to look that one up, but im pretty sure it doesnt say somethign about killing everyone in the world so that God likes you best, does it Alastair?? or do i have the wrong translation?) but as Alison said that chat up line has just destroyed the whole teaching in the Pure course! if you want to read more chat up lines then you can here http://www.christcorner.com/jokes9-3.html It has been fun randomly coming out with some of them at other CU things this week, to the great confusion of other people who weren't there!

Anyways, after small group i went to help at the Toastie Bar that CU do outside the union. We started by making up all of the sandwiches ready to be toasted (ok so i came in when this was just about done!) then we spent some time prayer for the people we would meet and be talking to that night. And then it was down to make and hand out the toasties. It was really great to do this practical piece of service for God, and to see the confused faces when you say its free, because its a good way to show them God's love. It takes a lot of wisdom to talk to some of the students as they question and criticise what we as Christians believe. I didn't have too much of this to deal with on Tuesday, but it was really encouraging to hear Greig and Andrew talking to and responding to a couple of guys who were saying things just to wind them up and get a reaction out of them. Lol, i took a toastie down the stairs (like all of 7 steps maybe) to a guy who wasnt going to come and get one, n he wanted me to kiss him on the cheek. I was like eh no thanks its alright, but he kept persisting, so i said 'ok how bout i shake your hand instead' so he shook my hand and said that he respected me for sticking to what i believe. Twas a great and humbling experience, if you ever get the chance to do something like it then you should!

So much has happened this week, well so many exciting things have happened, but i shall blog some more tomorrow, i don't want to fill your head with too much all at once!! tara chucks! :D