Looking for young Christian(s) passionate about fitness to write in a book!

[MPshock]

Long story short, I just signed up and I am 19 years old and am in the process of writing a book called �Marriage: From the Perspective of a Teenager� that I plan to release on my wedding day June 24th, 2012. The whole book talks about different topics related to marriage and I offer my opinion on them from as someone who isn�t married from a biblical point of view.

One of the last chapters I want to write (the only one left!) is on the importance of Health and Fitness inside of a marriage. I�m seeing it become way too common to get married and to get the �marriage bump� that isn�t a baby. I�m passionate about a husband and a wife being healthy and taking care of their body�s and honoring God and each other with them. The problem is that I am not a fitness expert and know very little about the topic even though I am starting to enter into this activity myself at this point in my life. I refuse to be a hypocrite and not take care of my own body while I tell other people that I think they should.

Rather than using a professional and older fitness/nutrient expert, I would like to keep the theme of the book and use a young person. I am looking for a young male or female between the ages of 16 � 21 who can co-write this chapter in the book with me. I would want you to share your own personal testimony of faith and fitness and also share practical �how-to�s� on how two busy people can incorporate health and fitness in their lives. Being 19 and getting married, I really don�t have a budget to pay you, but you would be able to be featured in a book and will be able to help tons of relationships all over the world! Your writing will also be professionally edited and you will be mentioned as a �co-writer� or �featured guest� in that specific chapter.

Another option to get this chapter done so quickly might be to incorporate multiple testimonies and tips from a few different teenagers. With that being said, please email me even if you are remotely interested and we can figure out the best way to get this chapter done the right way! Regardless of if it is just one person who contributes or multiple people, it will turn out great.

If you are interested please email me personally at Mattpshock@gmail.com and we can talk more specifics. Please note that I will need your contribution completed by May 20th, 2012 if we decide to go through with it. I just wanted to mentioned that ahead of time so that you know the deadline.

Thanks everyone! I look forward to hearing from you and appreciate the help as I come to a close on this book project.

Matt Pshock

[Kyuss420]

why is being christian a criteria of this?

[Socalchoirboy]

strong join date

inb4 divorce. OP, sloots gun sloot; especially at age 19.




stay safe

[MPshock]

why is being christian a criteria of this?

I would like to have all the advice, stories, testimonies, etc incorporate an aspect of faith AND fitness similar to Jimmy Pena's book, "Pray Fit." The reason is because I would like the reader to understand that fitness and faith go hand in hand. The book is written for Christians. Otherwise, I would be open to anything.

Just to clarify, I’m not to picky on your religious title. If you consider yourself a believer in Jesus Christ and strive to live a life glorifying to him in your discipline of fitness than you fit the criteria.

Thanks for asking the question Kyuss40, I hope that you understand what I am saying.

[Kyuss420]

How does faith and fitness go hand in hand?

[Socalchoirboy]

strong troll is strong

[MPshock]

How does faith and fitness go hand in hand?

A life that is disciplined by healthy eating and regular exercise is honoring to God. A life that is filled with junk food, medical problems (that you could prevent by changing your life style), being depressed and no exercise is not honoring to God. Regardless of if your exercise is as extreme as bodybuilding or if it is as simple as taking a 10 minute walk at work every day, I believe that Christians should be conscience of their bodies.

If you aren’t a Christian, then faith and fitness do not go hand in hand to you. But as I said earlier, the book is targeted at Christians and the majority of the readers will be people who do believe in God.

[Jericoe]

A life that is disciplined by healthy eating and regular exercise is honoring to God. A life that is filled with junk food, medical problems (that you could prevent by changing your life style), being depressed and no exercise is not honoring to God. Regardless of if your exercise is as extreme as bodybuilding or if it is as simple as taking a 10 minute walk at work every day, I believe that Christians should be conscience of their bodies.

If you aren’t a Christian, then faith and fitness do not go hand in hand to you. But as I said earlier, the book is targeted at Christians and the majority of the readers will be people who do believe in God.

So by eating junk food i cant honor God? seems legit

[jbball92]

A life that is disciplined by healthy eating and regular exercise is honoring to God. A life that is filled with junk food, medical problems (that you could prevent by changing your life style), being depressed and no exercise [b]is not honoring to God. Regardless of if your exercise is as extreme as bodybuilding or if it is as simple as taking a 10 minute walk at work every day, I believe that Christians should be conscience of their bodies.

If you aren’t a Christian, then faith and fitness do not go hand in hand to you. But as I said earlier, the book is targeted at Christians and the majority of the readers will be people who do believe in God.

-thats a stretch
-so basically your saying, potato chips and cheeseburger dont honor god, but being a drug addict and abusing drugs does?

seems legit

[MPshock]

-thats a stretch
-so basically your saying, potato chips and cheeseburger dont honor god, but being a drug addict and abusing drugs does?

seems legit

Haha, not necessarily. I don’t believe that being addicted to drugs is very honoring either. This chapter just specifically focuses on the area of health and fitness. It would be a challenge to focus on every single thing that could potentially not honor God. There is a lot…

Keep in mind, this book is just my opinion on common subjects. The point of it isn’t to say, “I’m right and you are wrong. If you eat a cheeseburger you are going to hell!” That’s not the goal at all, the point is to spark questions in the readers mind and let people battle and challenge these issues themselves.

[Kyuss420]

Very very strange things you are saying to me here. I was never aware God was judging and spectating my physical/nutritional health. Further more I do not see how eating or taking or not eating and not taking certain foods is an honor or dishonor to God. Why did God create types of foods that are dishonorable to him, doesnt that seem like something a mischievous/malicious God would do, hoping his people would **** up so he could judge them?

Health and fitness are not related to religion or God, health and fitness goes with survival of the fittest really. Look its bad there are people in this world living with the thought that there is an all powerful omnipotent creator who can do whatever the **** he wants but still finds it interesting to read the thoughts and judge the actions of millions of insignificant lesser beings to only instill a fear based way of living on all these people, now we have to think about certain foods sending us to hell?

[Xuaxace]

You don't have to be religious to care about your body or care about the betterment of the world.


And this comes from a religious person...

[xCody]

I'm not interested in doing this but, I might know someone else who is.

Look up thef0rtress on youtube and get in contact with him. He seems to be a strong christian and he makes fitness videos.

[MPshock]

Very very strange things you are saying to me here. I was never aware God was judging and spectating my physical/nutritional health. Further more I do not see how eating or taking or not eating and not taking certain foods is an honor or dishonor to God. Why did God create types of foods that are dishonorable to him, doesnt that seem like something a mischievous/malicious God would do, hoping his people would **** up so he could judge them?

Health and fitness are not related to religion or God, health and fitness goes with survival of the fittest really. Look its bad there are people in this world living with the thought that there is an all powerful omnipotent creator who can do whatever the **** he wants but still finds it interesting to read the thoughts and judge the actions of millions of insignificant lesser beings to only instill a fear based way of living on all these people, now we have to think about certain foods sending us to hell?

I understand what you are saying. I apologize if I came across the wrong way. The fact of the matter is that we will never agree on this topic because our beliefs (correct me if I am wrong) seem to be different. I believe that God exists and that he created this earth and everyone on it for his glory and I believe 100% that he loves his creation more than anything. With that being said, because I know how much God loves me it sparks something inside of me to give honor and glory to him.

If you have ever had a spouse that you were crazy in love with think of it the same way. What kind of spouse would I be if I always put my wife down, never spent any time with her, didn’t encourage her with my words and never publically honored her as my wife? I wouldn’t be very good and she wouldn’t be too happy with me either.

God is good and he loves unconditionally. There is absolutely nothing we can do to earn our salvation. It doesn’t matter what we eat or don’t eat, what we say or don’t say or what we do or don’t do. The bible says that salvation is a free gift from God available to any of those who choice to call Jesus as their Lord. As I said earlier, if you eat junk food you aren’t going to go to hell. But just how I love my wife and don’t want to dishonor her, I love God even more than that and don’t want to dishonor him. That is why I will do my best to live as pure, holy and mature as I possibly can. Not because it gets me a free ticket into heaven, but because it honors God as my Father and I believe warms his heart when his children obey his commands.

As I said, I know that we will never find an agreeing point and I would be more than happy to continue our back and forth if your questioning and challenging me comes from a curiosity that you have about God and why Christians believe or act the way they do . However, if you are just trying to pick a fight and disagree just for the sake of disagreeing I would rather not continue our back and forth.

[Kyuss420]

How can you believe any of that when you yourself cannot bring any justification to make it true.

[MPshock]

How can you believe any of that when you yourself cannot bring any justification to make it true.

In the Christian belief there is this aspect of faith. Faith is biblically defined as believing in things that are unseen. In other words, it’s believing by faith that God died on a cross, that he created the world and that he loves you. At the same time, there is tons of proof of Jesus’ existence on earth and a lot of it just recently was discovered this past Easter. People can no longer deny that Jesus lived on this earth, died and then rose again.

Why do we (Christians) dedicate our lives to following something that is technically “unseen” and live our whole lives trying to praise and honor a God that we do not no for sure exists? Because he speaks to his people and his supernatural power is real. My dad was part of a deliverance ministry years ago. I remember when I was little coming downstairs and seeing my dad pray for someone and having a conversation with a demon inside of the guy he was praying for who had his eyes rolled back in his head. My best friend prayed with an elderly lady and laid his hands on her blind eyes and she can now see. I’ve seen people walk out of wheel chairs, I’ve prayed with people who couldn’t hear who after prayer can now hear and I’ve felt the presence of God in real, tangible ways.

God is real and he is willing to talk to and meet with anyone who is willing to reach out to him.

[Kyuss420]

faith
   [feyth] Show IPA
noun
1.
confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability.
2.
belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact.

Why would you willfully be ignorant and chose to believe in that then? How come you shut off critical faculties of thought and reasoning only on this aspect? There is no proof in santa, yet you know he doesnt exist. Why is it not the same for God?

[MPshock]

faith
   [feyth] Show IPA
noun
1.
confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability.
2.
belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact.

Why would you willfully be ignorant and chose to believe in that then? How come you shut off critical faculties of thought and reasoning only on this aspect? There is no proof in santa, yet you know he doesn't exist. Why is it not the same for God?

I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you are saying. Could you please explain further? The difference here is that there is proof that Jesus existed and that proves that God can exists as well. I also have never seen Santa, felt Santa or had him do any miracles in my life. This is not the case with God. I have seen God heal people, felt his presence and have witnessed him do amazing miracles.

[TheLondoner]

I have seen God heal people, felt his presence and have witnessed him do amazing miracles.

Tell me more

[jbball92]

The difference here is that there is proof that Jesus existed and that proves that God can exists as well.

cows exist, does that mean flying cows exist?

maybe if i believe in them hard enough they will be real

[AmazinJason]

You don't have to be religious to care about your body or care about the betterment of the world.


And this comes from a religious person...

He never said that you HAVE to be religious to care about your physical well being. In my opinion, everyone can and should care about their physical health.

But for Christians specifically, people who claim to believe in the Bible, there is a Biblical backing for exercise and taking care of yourself physically.

Not sure why everyone is all tripped out about anything he is saying. If you aren't Christian, then why does it concern you? Keep doing what you are doing, I have much respect for anyone that commits to something like bodybuilding and disciplines themselves extremely well. If you are Christian, then this SHOULD concern you, because like I said, there is scriptural backing for why one should care about their own physical health.

[ske2164]

Well stated.
The thing some people don't understand is, everyone believes in God, they just don't know it yet. Unfortunately for a lot of those people, by the time they realize God is real, it's already too late.