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Grant tells a great story about what happens when people stop being nice and start being real – Christians. Definitely read this story.

What I like so much about stories like this one is that they tell you a lot about church leadership. I hear a story like this probably once a week and think, “Man, that was great. I wished I was there for that.” Yet often I never show up that way myself. It takes guts to live outside the norm and frankly, I was raised better.

I was raised that you don’t buck the system and where I did I always paid the price. I was raised not only to wear clothes outside always, but wear certain clothes and always a belt (even though I rarely follow the latter). But what if we paid the price AND could see how it effected others. What if when you feel your worst because of something you have done outside the norm, you also see how it impacted people for eternity.

That would be interesting worship. Telling our stories and God telling how it was part of His plan to redeem those moments.

Just a thought.

3 Comments

1. 

   nice pic!! do I even want to know how you got it?? ah ahhah.. And I love Despair.com....I want to demotivate our youth area with all of their posters...

   Grant / 23 Feb 2006 / 3:16 AM

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   www.sxc.hu for the free images. Just search for naked. Thanks man.

   Paul / 23 Feb 2006 / 3:56 AM

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   Thanks for pointing us to the story. Interesting...very interesting. Of course I commented. Of course it was entirely too long. Of course Grant will wonder who the heck "Catbird" is. And I'll probably get flamed...again.

   catbird / 23 Feb 2006 / 12:20 PM