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Monday 27 October 2014

This is why they wrote Star Wars.... Are you Obi Won or...?

In a new movie plot, you see your self. Your bigger brother is a Christian. He runs a hockey school. In spite of maybe one or two habits that he calls sin, he is very disciplined otherwise and knows how to pivot to the 90 really fast to defend against the best province wide all-stars. He said turning to the 90 is like turning the other cheek; like in the gospel. He preaches from the gospel to the students every now and again while teaching the basics and the advanced forms of defensive hockey. If the attacker changes direction, pivot and you will always be in front of him. So, one day you brought your fees to the school and you had it in your coat($650.00 plus taxes and this includes the discount obviously). It is a good school. But, one of his old friends said, "...check the coat for his fee and take it because I want to know what type of hockey guy he is and how he will react since, although, he is a Christian like you, his brother, hockey principles still determine who someone is." So, the older brother and some of his assistants took the cash to see who the younger brother is. Maybe they wanted to know if the younger brother would turn the other cheek. The question is, how do you apply that in hockey world with Christians who are presumably running on Christian principles; not hockey principles? They wanted to believe the younger brother was gay maybe but he was believing in the lessons and the testimony of his older brother. He laid his life and his skates before him, believing in his testimony. He did not react or call the police on the older brother because this would bring them into conflict and he could file a report, leave the school or he could continue to believe in his older brother's testimony although not all preachers are created equal. Some are charlatans when it comes to money and the habits that they may allow to plague them. But, everybody sins. However, who would want to hinder his own testimony? There was really no other answer for the younger brother but to believe in the older brother since he taught the gospel and his pivoting to the 90 with so much passion to really little children; especially if the older brother would get so heated with those who would not hear what he said about grace. He was probably making it clear that he needed it; grace since he never gave the money back but because the young brother never complained or asked for the money he (the older brother) learned to forgive his oldest wound at the hand of someone who took something valuable from just to see who he is as an older brother, father, husband or hockey guy. The hockey school grew immensely and while all ministries are not equal in terms of their handling of parishioners or their money since hockey culture sometimes clouds the pure essence of the gospel in the quagmire and fog and abusive games of wanting to know who is gay or straight in God's world, the only other answer was conflict. The younger brother turned to the 90 and became his older brother's best student. The younger brother didn't get the discount but he also never got a receipt but at least he grew immensely as a student as his older brother grew in the love and freedom of Christ; free from the abusive import and street fighting that informed most of his thinking even into to his middle age that dismisses Christ to ask if someone was just as abused as you, whether their really is a Holy ghost and whether someone can decide not to react to something that is, on an objective observation, inherently of the devil in the theft. God never asks anyone to abuse someone else to test if they are gay or straight. Test yourself or just believe in yourself. If there is any mindset beleaguering you, you should ask if it fits the fruit of the spirit( love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control-Galatians 5). If it does not, then maybe there is someone that you still need to forgive. You may need to ask 10 times a day because maybe you are now on a prayer list as someone needs to forgive you for your testing or provocation to see if you would get a gay reaction or straight reaction. But, you tested a Christian and one who was encouraged by your glistening appearance, teeth and words. If you were right about anything you said and the pivoting to the 90, he could only become your best hockey student and also a student of Christ if he does the only thing that you and Jesus require of him; that is forgive you and believe in you twice if that is what it takes! Christ is required to come twice; right? But, He is only required to die once(Proverbs 9). The Lord said forgive seven times seven. By the way, any student of those Bruce Lee and those 1970's martial arts movies knows that you lay your life before your teacher. If the teacher steps on the tibia and fibula bruise caused by tight skates or martial arts shoes, you do not hit him although you explained the bruise or cut on your heal due to vigorous defensive skating. But, that has to do with submission in not hitting your teacher as he stepped on your foot and not the fog of gay or straight. What are you asking in this world full of criss-crossing cultures, overlapping and conflicting values? Anyway, little brother is not a hockey gay but a submissive student of any 5th dan, should he show up for the next class to teach it.

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