Hello everyone! I hope you enjoy the new website. Our publicist…God love him, thinks he understands my mind…he calls my mind “scary.” How does he know what I am thinking is scary? How can he know what I am thinking? I don’t think I know what I am thinking….does that make sense? Ok, on we go…
1.) The Fire Extinguisher
This past week was one we’ll remember for a while. I love the guys I travel with. I don’t know how a person can do what we do without loving the people you do it with. I hear of some groups that are enuring things like that, and my my…how that must be a test. Our lives on the road is always filled with little surprises and life-long memories….most of them that nobody else will ever know about. Let me explain “the fire extinguisher” story. This happened this past week as we were in revival in Wilson, Oklahoma.
Siblings can definitely relate to this. I don’t know why it is fun sometimes to bother each other, but it really is. I feel like I really am neglecting the other fellas when I am not pestering them. Well, this, evidently, is a contagious trait. It all started on the drive to southern Oklahoma. Joey and Drew going at it. Each attempting to prank the other. Whether it was salt in the water trick at restaurants, toilet paper taped to the back of the shirt, or just a good ol’ fashioned wrestling match, it was “on” from the time we got in the car. Ben and I merely were by-standers….ok, we were instigators, but what was one to do? Just sit back and watch? Even the Bible encourages us to engage our surroundings.
Well, Drew had the master plan of spraying Joey with a fire-extinguisher at the room we were staying at. This was no hotel room. We were blessed to have stayed at the Baptist Associational Office that had rooms there. Drew was expecting the white foam to come out a little on Joey’s head….instead, it was this yellow powder….and apparently, whoever invented this contraption thought it should only be used once…cause when you push the button, it all comes out! So, instead of a little practical joke, we all spent the evening cleaning up this yellow powder, vaccuming, sweeping, and gagging on the dust. However, for a brief moment, it was funny to see Joey covered.
2.) A Spitter
Here is an etiquette question for you. If someone is talking with you and they accidently spit on your face…do you
A.) Gag, and immediately wipe it off, looking at them as if they were the grossest person on Earth?
B.) Ignore it till they walk away, then collapse in disgust after you bathe with gasoline and fire?
C.) Spit on them back?
D.) Act like you are coughing, then cover your mouth, and as you bring your hands back down, you wipe your face off….trying to minimize their embarrassment while saving your disgusted feeling?
OK, I went with D, but it wasn’t a success. They knew they spit on me. I knew they spit on me. For crying out loud…everyone within a 15 foot area knew they spit on me. The thing had a shadow, man. After I tried to casually wipe it off, they asked me “you wiped off my spit, didn’t you?” I’m going to be honest with you….I lied. I acted like I didn’t know what they were talking about. “Spit on me, what are you saying?” I said. Alas, it was no good…they were embarrassed. They started walking away. I told them not to worry about it and that I spit on people all the time….I asked them to watch me closely tonight as I preach….and that the first few rows would be doused. Yeah, I went overboard a little, but let this be a lesson to everyone — Don’t spit when you talk, and if you do, don’t ask someone about it, and if asked about it, don’t lie, and after not lying, don’t tell them you spit on people all the time.
3.) 12 souls saved!
That is right. We were witnesses to a dozen people being transferred from one realm to another. They were born again this past week in revival.
Their first birth brought them a sin nature, this birth brought them forgiveness.
Their first birth brought them mortality, this birth brought them immortality.
Their first birth brought them judgement, this birth brought them to the Judge!
They will never remember their first birth…they will never forget this one.
It was awesome, once again, to be used by the very One who breathed life into us. We have no problem acknowledging that it has nothing to do with how clever, eloquent or spiritual we are or arent’….it has EVERYTHING to do with the fact that God’s grace snatched them from the throws of Hell. My my my, what a job we have!
