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My Ranting!

Would you believe it?! In the last issue I wrote
about how bad our driving has become as Christians.
I wrote it as a commentary on how our lives are not
matching up with our talk. Often-times we say we are
Christians, but if we were taken to court for our
convictions and we stood trial and if found to be a
Christian, convicted guilty, sadly, many of us would
be let free on the grounds insufficient evidence to
convict.

I am simply meaning that we need to leave no doubt
in any person’s mind whether we are or are not a
believer. I’m not saying that we need to TELL more
people about our beliefs, I think it needs to be a
little more covert than that. We need to SHOW our
beliefs. The best sermon I EVER preach is a life
well lived.

My Granny Hass told me that my Great Grandpa said,
“the world is full of Sunday Christians and every
day devils.” It’s time to change that concept.

I mean, the whole thing was simply an attempt to
simply try to wake us up to a few facts:<p></p>

1. Only about 4% of the nation’s young people are in
church!
2. This year sexuality doubled on TV!
3. We are growing older everyday.
4. How our kids see us treat the elderly is how they
will treat us.
5. How our kids see us treat them is how they will
treat their kids.
6. Most of development is done in the first six
years of a child’s life.
7. Toddlers repeat EVERYTHING!!!!
8. No one I have ever talked to on a death bed ever
said they wished they had more time in the office.
9. Overall, the happiest people I have ever met are
in third-world countries.
10. We have portfolios with stocks, bonds and cd’s,
but no Heavenly Portfolios of missions, humanitarian
aid, activist, art, history or nature conservation
support.
11. And lastly, what will everyone say at our eulogy?

I want to write my eulogy right now. I want to put
the words in their mouths with a life lived well.
Where, there’s nothing much to say, the life said it
all.

It’s time!

It’s time for me to change. I want to grow up before
I grow old. I want to start giving back to the
world, the world community, my neighbor and give
glory back to God. I want to live for someone other
than myself. It’s time for the old Dustin to fade
away, a new Dustin to be born. It’s time for Jesus
to get another chance to walk and talk on the earth.
It’s time for Jesus to get to walk around covertly
changing lives in a Dustin costume. It’s time to
find myself as I abide in Him and He in me. Is this
mind in us? The mind that considers us a servant and
others above ourselves with the Father above all?

It’s easy to find something to die for, but, I want
to do something daring, Something bold. I want to
LIVE and give my life for something worth living
for! The Kingdom of God!

What do you think? 

Oh, and by the way, the thing that started me on
this topic is the other day AFTER I wrote the
newsletter and sent and one person even requested to
be removed from the mailing list, I had a phone call
from an angry person in the community. Someone with
a Tapestry Church bumper sticker cursed them out at
a red light for cutting them off in traffic! I had t
simply apologize and ask for their forgiveness.
IRONY, right?! Now, that is God ending your sentence
with an exclamation point!

Oh, and by the way, it turned out well. I apologized
and he ended up checking out the website and saying
that he wanted to see the article later.

So, this time, let’s truly get it. We are giving God
a really rotten name and we aren’t doing much for
ourselves either.

Blessings!
pd

Original post by PD .