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Beavis
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Date Joined Oct 2001
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| Posted 2/15/2003 6:48 PM (GMT -6) |   | Greetings to you all,
I have not been around for a while but now I am back. I have been observing my Christian friends lately, and it has occurred to me christians generaly seem to have too much focus on large scale issues such as Global conflict, Racisim in America, ect. Then they go off, start or join a crusade leading many in the church to believe that is what it takes to "make a difference" and therefore anyone who does not do these grandiose feats is not making a difference. I Disagree I believe this to be the wrong focus. Lets face it folks if Our national leaders think it to be in the best interest of America to stomp Iraq, Our armies will do so regardless of who disagrees, as for racism that again is a vague massive social problem I can do nothing about. But here is what we all can do everyday that will change the world. SHAKE A HAND. Do what? you might say; shake a hand, whats that gonna do? well consider this; when was the last time you went over to your nieghbors, knocked on the door, and said "Hey would you and yours like to come to dinner" or "got time for a cup of coffee" and instead of leading a charge you focused on spending time becoming a part of the lives of the people who live, die, cry, and laugh sometimes a matter of feet from you. Now imagine if everyone did this, imagine what a world that would be. Racism will go away, believe it will I have been preaching this to my covenent group for some time I have led in the example of simply going to my nieghbors who happen to be black, and sit and drink some beers and watch football or whatever and now I am "cool, for a white boy" in their eyes and not some crazy white person trying to fix thier problems as I see them. And a relationship has grown here to where they see me as friend and color is no longer a part of the equation. This is the focus I believe Christians need to have. If you feel called to start a halfway house or foundation of some kind, more power to ya. But I am not a cause kinda guy, and there are a lot people like me. And for those people making this a habit is what making a diffence means.
We are what we repeatedly do, excellence therefore is not an act but a habit---Aristotle
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