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If you know me very well, you know that my favorite non-Jesus person in the Bible is the apostle Paul. I love his passion, I love his boldness, I love that what he believed, he lived without apoligies.  Well Saturday I guess the temperature drop caused a change in my brain activity, because I acted like Saul instead of Paul. Saul was who the apostle was before he became a God-fearing man.  Saul went to church, and knew alot about the law, and persecuted those who didn't agree with him. 

Saturday morning Mark was going to be home.  He was supposed to be going to get Adam at college, but instead he got Adam Friday night.  So, I saw this as my golden opportunity.  Notice how I'm already defending myself?!  This would be my only Saturday with Mark around the house until probably about October.  This happens every year.  He starts youth basketball practice in December, and then starting in January he coaches youth basketball and then as soon as that is over, grass-cutting season begins, and that literally will end in October.  For those of you who don't know-Mark does this a side-thing to help pay our bills.   So, I asked him if he would help clean the downstairs, and he said he would, not thrilled about it, but he would.  So we started, and Chloe even got in on it.  Now, let me back up.  Last Sunday Dec. 9th, our lesson talked about the whole "Happy Holidays" and people's stands on it.  It caused quite a discussion in Sunday School, and I even led M&Ms Monday morning Bible devotion about this.  It also caused quite a stir.  The point I made was that even though I don't agree with people who aren't Christians, that the goal of my life is to reach out in the love of Christ .  Now, jump forward to Saturday.  I'm cleaning the toilet, and the doorbell rings, and Mark gets it.  I glance in the door and see a lady and child both dressed in crisp blue suits, and I go back to to cleaning the commode.  I begin to listen in on what she is saying.  She's talking about the Bible and the book of Psalm, and I know she is a Jehovah's Witness.  I give it a few minutes and thought "I'm gonna put a stop to this."  I march to the door.  "Hi.  We believe that Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven."  "Oh we do to."  "What is your religous affiliation?"  "We are Jehovah's Witness."  "Well, I hope that you are going to Heaven when you die, and thank you for coming, and honey you need to get back to your dusting."  Slam.  Mark is livid with me.  After us talking I was going to go out and apologize, but she and her very young son were gone.  I start trying to reject the conviction, but that proved an impossible task. In fact I began to feel sick.  Because as I told you, only a very few days before I'd told my Sunday school class, and told people at M&M that we have to show God's love at all times.  We can disagree but we have to do it in a way that always let's the hope of Christ shine.  The reality was that I had done everything but that.  I was more concerned with my toilet being cleaned than I was the salvation of two people, one a young boy.  My eyes are tearing up as I type this, because I can't get the piture of that little boy out of my head, and think of the scar I've left on his life.  I asked God to forigive me, and I know he has, but I don't want to forget what I've done. I have goals coming out of this.  One is to find out what Jehovah's witnesses believe, so that I won't allow my ignorance to turn into anger as a means of defense, and the second is to be a loving disciple of Christ the next time one shows up at my door. 

WWJD?  Not have acted like me.  I'm not proud, I'm sick about it. 

Mark 2 13-14Then Jesus went again to walk alongside the lake. Again a crowd came to him, and he taught them. Strolling along, he saw Levi, son of Alphaeus, at his work collecting taxes. Jesus said, "Come along with me." He came.

 15-16Later Jesus and his disciples were at home having supper with a collection of disreputable guests. Unlikely as it seems, more than a few of them had become followers. The religion scholars and Pharisees saw him keeping this kind of company and lit into his disciples: "What kind of example is this, acting cozy with the riffraff?"

 17Jesus, overhearing, shot back, "Who needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick? I'm here inviting the sin-sick, not the spiritually-fit."

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