Witnessing (was "Regarding Holiness Issues")

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Bro Brian Berger wrote about witnessing:

> I think we are still afraid to just press
> the flesh and show our self with a pulse to everyone we meet. Then if we
> are praying then the door just opens up to the gas station jockey (he is
> bored anyway and he can't leave!) and the people at the Wendy's on
> Sunday know us and ask how to know more.

Amen!

Last Saturday the Sunday school of my church, Apostolic Life, took a trip
to the  St. Louis Zoo.  We stopped at the rest stop on I-70 outside of
Effingham Illinois -- 30 kids and 10 adults raiding the rest rooms and
vending machines.

At this rest stop was this old red Dodge Omni.  The back bumper was a
varnished piece of lumber, and the automobile was decorated with bumper
stickers, decals, and duct tape.  Fashioned as a kind of hood ornament
was a little statuette of a guy who was holding a (simulated) reefer,
which was attached to the front of the hood with duct tape.  On the side
of the car, in yet more duct tape, was the phrase "KILL GOD."

It was not difficult to identify the group of three guys at a nearby
picnic table as the owners of this vehicle.  They had the weird clothes,
the weird hair, the weird smells.

So the Pastor, Bro Rogers, goes to have a chat with them.  It's not hard
to deduce that he's a "church guy" of some sort (what with APOSTOLIC LIFE
CHURCH all over the sides of our vans), and in the small talk that he
initiates he indicates that he is the pastor of the church.  After a
little bit of this, one of the young men pulls Bro Rogers aside and asks
him if they can speak privately.

This guy tells the pastor that he's unhappy with his life, he doesn't know
what to do, and asks the pastor to please pray for him.  So Bro Rogers
prays for him on right there, at the Effingham rest stop on I-70.  I was
ready to start having church myself.

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Bro Rogers is one awesome guy, an excellent pastor.  On the way back home
from the zoo (a 3 1/2 hour ride), the teens penned a song for the pastor.
It goes like this:

(To the tune of "What Do You Think About Jesus? He's Allright!")

    1.
    What do you think about Pastor?
    He's allright!
    What do you think about Pastor?
    He's allright!
    What do you think about Pastor?
    He's allright!
    He's allright, he's allright, he's allright!


    2.
    He baptized me in Jesus' name,
    And that's allright...

    3.
    He taught me 'bout that Holy Ghost,
    And that's allright...

There's another verse or two, but I can't quite recall them.

Richard M.