... my attempts to be clever landed me with the name "babootie"

Man I have so much to say about this. Both of the topics you brought up... (probably because they are questions about Christianity as a whole so it pretty much covers any question i've ever had). Anyway staying on topic (sort of). These are questions that i wrestled with HUGE about a year ago and feel like the Lord gave me huge insight into how the Holy Spirit is such a vital part of this whole equation. But we end up over looking His role inside of us and feeling lost because of. So I guess this is just me saying that I’m really praying that the Holy Spirit (our Counselor) will come and rock out through this blog. I mean if the Holy Spirit is what set the church of ACTS of fire (kind of figuratively and literally at the same time) then He can totally do that again today in our little 4 person church and I’m expectant of that. Alright I need to get back to selling black babies ;) haha jk- that sounds so bad! But I’ve got a lot more to say so watch out… soon I’m going to leave a mini novel as my post! Love you all!