on the significance of names...

so last wednesday was that annual occurrence when i say to my quiz team... "alright guys, saturday's the first quiz and we've gotta come up with a name!"

everybody started flippin' through luke and we came up with a few interesting ideas... but finally settled on one we were pleased with "sawdust in your brother's eye." now is the time to put that name to good use - the marketing, the quality quizzing, the application...

since allison's already started on the artwork portion, i've been kinda meditating on the application part (since that's the part that's my strength... ok - i like doing the artwork, too) - and i was just thinking back on last year's team and the way it turned out...

onesiphorus. yeah, we settled on that one cause daniel was learning 2 timothy 1, and he said "that sounds like a refreshing dinosaur." real deep. but definitely the kind of logic that could not be defeated at the annual naming conference! (yeah, we all have a kinda warped sense of humor). so throughout the year, our team graffiti tended to be a picture of a poorly drawn dinosaur taking a shower (remember, i had two years of college in an art related field! - and somehow the hand gesture became a sort of shower head motion with the arm and hand). the shirts we made came out pretty sweet and unique, and the shower caps that we wore for the tournament and championship quiz DEFINITELY caused us to sweat!

still, my favorite part was the application... and how'd it come about? bad language skills! onesiphorus... not necessarily easy to say, even tougher to spell... so to help out scorekeepers, i started to pronounce it (wun see for us)... well, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that there are two numbers in there... 1 & 4... and that si is "yes" in spanish... and us, well, that's a plural pronoun. so one day in our team devotion time i shared this verse:

"for all the promises of God find their Yes in Him [Jesus Christ]. that is why through Him that we utter our Amen to God for His glory." 2 corinthians 1:20

there's only 1 si 4 us! it's Jesus! He is the Yes to all the promises of God :) so cool - such a big thought sparked by our wackiness.

hopefully, the sawdust'll take us in a meaningful direction as well!




well, time to get to studying luke...