"Not important Dude" was: Here they come

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Bro. T:
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.  ;-)

Me:
Oh, I've KNOWN for a LOOONNG time that I am a madman....  I am a Holy Ghost
Filled servant of the One True Holy God madman, but still a madman.  So was
Abraham, Moses, David, Elijah, Elisha, John the Baptist, Jesus.....

Besides, it was a Cammo "ball cap style" hat that said "Can't hide it, Jesus
Saves" with two red crosses and one black one....

Unless he means the one I wore when I played at one of my old friend's
parties where he sang a song that went something like <nasal 'country'
twang>  "I don't drink and stay out all night long anymore, because of
YOU..." which I would point to every time that he said "YOU".  THAT was a
multicolored neon yellow and green hat with the Word "Jesus" in the middle
of the Pepsi emblem in black.  Some people can't get anything right...

I did make one of the Cammo hats for a pastor in this town though.  I don't
know if he ever wore it to church....


You:
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.

My Brother:
9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that
they were righteous, and despised others:

10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the
other a publican.

11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that
I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this
publican.

12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his
eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a
sinner.
14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the
other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that
humbleth himself shall be exalted.

You know what would be even scarier?  What if God made me the 'pastor' of a
huge church that met on the internet.  The congregation would be made up of
those who already have the Holy Ghost yet are so confused by all the
doctrines of man being taught as the Word of God that they are truly a lost
people.  What if many of them already were like the Pharisee above, yet God
wanted to give them a chance to change?  Others, while willing to follow Him
alone, would have to be shown the falseness of these teachings without
destroying their faith in the Word, and even in the corrupted system.

What if He sent me forth with no title and no real authority in their eyes
and only Armed me with the Word?  What if He Ordained that I must do that
which a real Biblical pastor is called to do and merely warn and rebuke and
encourage and edify in the Word without being a BIG SHOT or asking a thing
from them?

Wow!  Wouldn't it be frightening if while all this was going on, He was
making  ****ME**** too???


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

Me:
;-D

Luke 6:26
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Timothy Litteral
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