A PS to Some E-mail Dialog :)

5/29/2002

Hi Esther… I realize, as I’ve said previously, you haven’t had any fun at all in this conversation. HOWEVER, I also know you want to get off of the “boat” where Styrofoam “cyberspace” is all that you have, and the face-to-face stuff never amounts to much. Never listen to anybody for long who can not point to real lives, real time, where children, adults, neighbors, co-workers… REAL PEOPLE! are part of their everyday lives, and see Jesus manifested in REAL LIFE TOGETHERNESS. “THIS is how all men will know.” Not “one way men will know.” The “lone ranger” stuff that only exists in thin air is not what Jesus has Built.

I KNOW you want more than the hocus-pocus—now you see them, now you don’t, “You only know what I tell you,” paper bag over the head, “mystery meat” kind of “church.” AND, I GUARANTEE you, you CAN’T have the Life that so FEW have (though the BIBLE ordains it!) if you build like the masses build. CLEARLY you will have to change the way you think and how you make your decisions, unless you want “more of the same”—what most have, and what you’ve experienced, drawn out over the next forty years.

As Einstein said, radical problems MANDATE radical solutions. So, only get “offended” if you think you can afford to!

Love,