My First Interview ~ Maybe more to come!

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Thanks to Jenny for the questions!


1. You've just been told you have 6 months to live, what would you do? Places you visit....
I've been told I have 6months to live, I'd make absolutely sure that my family had everything they needed to not have to worry about "life" things and then I would probably do something cheesey like record a tonne of videos for my wife and children with little messages and being sure they knew I loved them completly. I'd also like to do some major travelling, and some of the things I've always dreamed of doing I.E Sky Diving, Bungee Jumping, Scuba Trip... Stuff like that. A Joe Vs. the Volcano sorta thing comes to mind.


2. Do you love your career...what would be something else you would like to do for a career? What stops you from doing it?
Do I love my career, I deffinately love what I'm doing. I've often said I don't ever want to live to work, I only want to work so I can live freely it's important to me to be able to spend whatever time I want to with my family and also to be able to give to the body of Christ whenever I can. I don't think at present moment I can see myself doing anything else, I've always wanted to be a Pastor and to be able to give in that sense but I don't see why I'd have to stop having fun with computers. There really isn't anything stopping me, I guess I'm on the path that I believe God has me on!! Nothing should hold us back from doing what we want.


3. What was your funnniest moment?
Hmm I'm not sure, there are tonnes of things that are my funniest momments and with two kids and a crazy wife I think they keep happening. I really dunno right now, If I think of something I'll come back and edit in a different color. Sorry

OH MY GOODNESS Thanks to Ruth for bringing back this dreadful but halarious moment of my life... Back when we were all younger ;) our youth group under my father-inlaw's leadership used to go to the old folks home and minister to the people there, singing songs, playing games and visiting with these people. Well one particular visit and MY LAST I might add I sat with a lady we called Grandma Katie... ... ... ... I wish I hadn't :P Let's just say the visit was great really I was having a great time, then all the sudden outta da blue she starts talking about my childhood and how I'm her grandson and going into details, she even told me my birth name (native name) I can't remember it, but then she says "You used to suck on my tits" I was so embarassed seriously I was a young Christian at this point and a teenager "trying to be the cool one" in front of all my friends and wow... ya it wasn't so funny back then but I can sure laugh about it now haha

4. Do you have any regrets in your life so far?
Turthfully I'd have to say my biggest regrets have been not being obedient to God, to his callings. Being selfish in my own life and doing what I've wanted instead of laying down my will and dying to self.


5. What is your biggest struggle with being a Christian?
My biggest struggle with being a Christian is my flesh... Like Paul said I do the things I don't want to do. My disobedience... I'm a weak man I often struggle with confidence in Christ, "did He really ask me to say that, am I really supposed to be doing this" sorta things. Wierd thing is I know that He has called me, I know His voice and when He's speaking to me, I just am a fool for listening to the voice of the enemy and allowing him to whisper lies to me. I also struggle with consistancy, sometimes I feel like I'm not praying enough or not reading my bible enough. I know I'm my own worst critic, and I also know these aren't requirments but I do struggle with them. Another thing I struggle with is wisdom, I guess this ties into the confidence thing though, I just don't feel smart enough, I feel like I never measure up.. It's very dumb I know... but for some reason I continually fall into that. I really just want to live a life that is truly tranparent with a passion for Jesus that results in a God honoring moral lifestyle so that my behavior follows my beliefs.


Well thanks Jenny for those questions, if anyone else has anything they want to ask me then fire away I may not answer all of them if there is lots I might pick a "best of" from the bunch or I might answer them all... who knows :P haha

Blessings to all my peeps thanks for reading. Drop a comment if you haven't for awhile!

7 comments:

Lynnie Ha said...

thanks, chris, for sharing... it's really need reading about your walk with God, cuz i don't know much about it from day to day run-in's at church... i love reading how people hear God and struggle with Him and walk their walk with Him..... thanks. agape luv's!!!!

Lynnie Ha said...

oh, and i have a comment about what you said about confidence... i've found (cuz i struggle too) that when i don't just say, 'oh, what a stupid thought' and shove it away, but really look at it and find where it's roots are, it helps me deal with it it more effectively... for example, i struggle with thoughts that 'how could i know i heard His voice? how can i think that *i* could ever hear Him?'... but that has it's roots in my childhood, when i learned to second guess myself (i won't go into how, lol) and was even called a liar by a priest when i said that Jesus had told me something.... and it's like, wow, that was a lie planted way back then?!... and now i can come directly to it and say, "NO, God tells me His sheep CAN hear His voice, and KNOW Him..."... do you know what i mean? ... i'm learning to not just disregard and swipe recurrent thinking struggles and say 'stupid thought'... i look at them, and God actually reveals the source and makes the changes! ... i hope that ramblin' makes sense, lol!!!!

Ruth said...

Grandma Katie was a very funny moment!!!
Thanks for contributing to the blog world...maybe it will become a frequent thing!! ;)

Christy said...

I can't even handle that story about Grandma Katie! What I would pay now to have been there!!!!!

Love you!!

Carin said...

ok, questions for you...
1) who's your favourite canuck and why?
2) what do you love most about Christy?
3) what is your favourite part about being a dad?
4) what is it about coke that you like so much? (are you winning the no coke for a month challenge???)
5) what is your favourite thing about yourself?

Jenny said...

Great responses Chris!!
That sounds like quite the incident with Granny!!

Anita said...

BAHAHAHAHAHHAAAA I'm actually laughing right now...
My mom used to work at Terraceview so we'd run into Katie a lot. I can share in your trauma... I've been told multiple times that I used to suck on her tits... same with my little bro :)
Fun times... PS she always had poo on her hands.