They look like everybody else: the white collars, the blue; the freaks, deadbeats, African, African-American, American-American, Jewish (wait...no, that's right)... Christians look like all of them because they ARE all of them. The saints, the pedophiles, murderers, New York firemen... So then how do we know? How do we know who is on our team?
Wait, God said something about knowing them by their works.
Pastors? Nuns? Televangelists? Or was it by their fruit? Or was that the stuff that was sewn in heaven?
I feel like a Christian, but I know better. Or maybe I should know better. I consider myself Protestant (loosely translated into back-sliden Christian). I have always been told that no matter how far you back-slide, it is always only one step back. I think it is a little different then that. It may be one step back, but it is a step onto a balance beam.
Isn't it easier just to walk on the mat? It is soft and forgiving and does not have high expectations like the 4" apparatus above it. I watch people do flips and spins on the balance beam. I used to be on the beam. I did not flip or spin but I did patronize the mat people. Now I am on the mat leaning against the 4" beam. It is a tough act, harder then the balance maybe. But it is better then the icecapades.
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yea, that "bar" is too high.
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