Nada Mucho Acqui...

...but I did promise myself I'd try to write a li'l something everyday, whenever possible. It's been a typical workday today, busy busy busy... plus my backup is out all week, so I'm covering for him (read: overtime, aka 'Ikea' $$, yea!). So, the only thing I could think to bring up is a (not so) small issue I've been having regarding our young adult group at church. Ok... I'll try to make this brief, but you know how long-winded I can be... so... we tried to start this young adult bible study up about a year and a half ago where we'd meet once a week and go over different bible studies. We never had a particularly good turnout (maybe 3-7 people each week, 7 being a rarity). So about 3 months ago or so, someone (I think it was me) came up w/ the idea of rotating each week between bible study and 'social' events into our Thursday night get togethers. We started it up w/ the Wine&Cheese party I had, which was quite a success. Other things have included doing Happy Hours, Karaoke, and meeeting for dinner or Starbucks. I've really thought this has been a great idea, because more people have been getting involved in the young adult group, and we've had better turnouts on the 'bible study' weeks. Well... this Thursday was supposed to be a 'social' week and someone (not me) sent an email to the person who has been leading the bible studies reminding them of that. This person's response to the email was basically, 'our bible studies are for studying about God and the bible, and not intended for social hours. i'm not going to take that away from people who are here to learn more about serving God. If you want to send out an email to your friends to get together for social time, feel free.' My immediate response was basically WTF?!?! It was the social events that got most people interested the young adult group to begin with. If that's what the majority wants, that's what we should do. Then the more I thought about it, I could see this person's point. The point of having a bible study is to be learning more about the bible, and we are certainly not doing that by going out to Karaoke... so I am feeling a little torn on the matter... go w/ this person and only do Bible Studies each week (risking lower turnouts and people fading out of participating), or I don't even know what the alternative would be...basically trying to start up another group that mixes bible study with social activities, i guess... any thoughts???