OK....I'm going to do a little experiment. I have given this anecdote in the past....in these posts....and more often in conversations with others. It was about....oh I don't know....the mid-1990s....and I was working shiftwork....in a power plant....on a crew of about twenty-five or so men....(and a few women.) We would take our breaks together and do what hard-nosed guys do at times like that....we blathered about this and that.... laughed a lot....swore a little too much....complained....but never cried.....and then I had an idea. I brought in an old Christian game that could be bought in any Christian bookstore....called....the Ungame. I have one in my hand right now.....over 4 million sold! It is a non-competitive game that simply gives each player a topic to talk a little about. If successful....these hard-boiled men would open up about things in their lives that we would never ever otherwise talk about. I talked them into trying the game....and it worked.....and a few weeks later we knew each other better than we had before. So....I am going to pick three random cards right now.....and answer them as if I were with those men....or with other Christians. I have no idea what the questions will be. If they stink....then you will never read this post because I will have never typed it....here we go....
First question..."If you could go back in time, into what Bible Story would you like to enter?"
Hmm....Let me think about that. I'm still thinking. I got it......1 Corinthians 15:52...."In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed." This moment is actually coming up soon!
Second question....well this is one of the odd ones..."Ask someone a question....or comment on any subject....or take another card."
I think that I will ask you a quesation....."To the best of your knowledge and understanding....when were you born again?"
Third question...."How does your Christianity show when you are driving on the highway."
Well....let's take yesterday....I had my bumper stickers on the back of my truck....that have the URL for these posts. I was coming back from Barnes & Noble....and it was a long stretch where I had one car behind me. I couldn't even tell if it was a man or a woman but I believe that it was a woman. I was thankful that he or she had to stop behind me long enough to read the address of my posts on my bumper stickers....and I prayed for him or her....'Lord give me wisdom with these posts....and I pray your mercy upon that man or woman behind me." So far so good....then a little on down the road a light was coming up....and it was yellow....and I sped up a little to get through....no big problem but not exactly what I wanted that man or woman behind me to see. Actually....that is the hardest part of my having these bumper stickers on the car....doing something wrong....or maybe even unwise....and knowing that the person behind me might go to my website and say to themselves...."Oh yeah....that guy's a Christian alright!"
Well hey that's it. I thought that it worked well. Why don't you go to Amazon and order the game....so that when your Christian friends come over....you can try what I did with my fellow-workers?
