Favorite Posts #4 “It Really Helps To Vote”

Though this was never really a popular blog, I think that this one is my favourite. I thought of it in the middle of voting for a municipal election and sped home (after the school zones) to write it out. I just really like what came out. 

My friends often say, “You need to vote or you can’t complain.”

Ok. I just went to Irvine Elementary School and voted. Now it’s time to get a few things off my chest that have been looming for some time now:

• Gas prices are way too high.
• The weather in Vancouver sucks.
• Roberto Luongo is inconsistent in high pressure situations.
• Rush hour traffic increases my driving time substantially.
• I have a hard time finding new leaders for Life Groups at Ethos.
• Liberalism has crept into Evangelical Christianity and those who are most influenced by it do not see that historically their “new ideas” are not sustainable and their churches will shrink and die.
• People who put NDP signs on their front lawn seem to think that the government should cut their grass for them.
• My coffee today is a little bit cold.
• My Telus cell phone bill is consistently more than I want it to be and I can’t find a way to get it lower.
• There are never enough parking spots outside of my place and I always end up walking a longer distance than I would like.
• The many directions and versions of the street titled, “Lougheed,” in Coquitlam makes it extremely difficult to help newcomers navigate their way through the city.
• Some people take themselves too seriously (like government workers, the police, myself and people like that).
• Many people in my church do not read their Bibles and wonder why they are not growing in their faith and are floundering in their sin.
• The reason why we have poverty is not because of capitalism, communism, evangelicalism, modernism, consumerism or because your dad didn’t retweet you enough. We have poverty because of sin and the wickedness of the human heart on all levels of society and around the world. Jesus is the only cure for sin, injustice and poverty. The gospel is not old-fashioned, it is our only hope globally and locally. It must be preached with words.
• On Thursday mornings there is a women’s Bible study called BSF that takes up all the parking spots at Coquitlam Alliance and you have to park way in the back and walk in the rain.
• “How Do You Know” is a terrible movie and should never have been made and never have been watched.
• The 140 character restriction on Twitter is way too few to develop a good point or a good joke. I really wish they would just give us another 10 characters. How hard would that be really?
• People who cheer against the Canucks are bearable on Facebook but annoying to watch playoff games with.

Oh that was great. Voting really does make a difference! You should go out and vote and exercise your rite to complain!