"Not important Dude" was: Here they come

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At 08:43 PM 9/2/98 EDT, Bro Mike Reed amusingly wrote:
>
>                                              The Perfect Church
> 
> I found the perfect church Dude!  It's really cool man.  Ya see I got this
>new doo, and everyone there is really cool about it.  I got my hair spiked up
>in the middle about twelve inches, multi colored (purples and greens) and I
>have "Jesus is cool" tattooed to my scalp on the right side of my head and
>"Holiness unto the Lord" on the other.  There is a lot of *freedom" there.
>There ain't no standards there, everybody's *responsible for their OWN
>behavior*.  I do my thing, they do their's. 

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> I asked this one dude with dreadlocks down to his shoulders (he said it
was a
>lot shorter than it used to be) "who is the pastor here?"  He said, "That's
>him up there."  I said, "You mean that big guy with the beard and the
baseball
>cap that says 'Jesus Lives' on it?"  He said, "That's him, truely a man with
>no lines, ya know some say he's a genius, some say he's a mad man."

Heh, heh, heh... Hey Bro Timothy... you're the pastor of a church!
You've got a beard ... and a ballcap just like that, eh?  You learned
earlier this week that you might even be a "madman".... I think it's you
bro.  ;-)

You've got your work cut out for you bro.  To whip that congregaton into
shape.  It's obvious their previous pastor didn't preach the word because
there's no decency and no order in what's going on.  But with you at the
helm, you shouldn't have any problem with confronting them with scriptures
and making the word come alive to them so that they can change on the inside
that'll eventually be reflected on the outside.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they've never heard of the Holy Ghost
much like the disciples of John around the upper coasts of Ephesus as written
about in Acts chapter 19.

If they take in the unadulterated word, they'll be a completely different
church withing a year or so... what a mission work!

Bro Tyler
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