yeah no problems with the spam filter, I don’t have very strict settings on it.

It’s funny how we see things and feel like we are always right and then later we see things and realize just how wrong we were.

Thanks, I really hung up on that when I typed stereotype. It didn’t feel right so I stopped to think. I rarely stop when I’m typing, very stream on consciousness and then I might edit, but not a lot. I’m glad I stopped if it got the right image out there.

True dat, we all do.

I don’t know that I started to get it back then, but the first of many fractures in my invalid world view began forming. Someday I think some of the pieces still remain, but mostly it busted when my life fell apart and God rebuilt it. We need to get to a point where we know we can’t survive without God. It is true for all of us but we need to KNOW it.

I don’t read obits, but it hits me when I see an accident, or watch/hear an ambulance speed by. Was that someone dying and going to hell? Did I fail? Did someone else?

Churches are focused on numbers, and mostly easy numbers which is church cannibalism most of the time. That is one of the big reasons the Church in America is failing.

Hmmm, what aren’t you telling us?

We do need to have our hearts broken for the lost.

I don’t normally do this, but here’s a link to a story from a missionary with the organization I work for… it blew me away last Friday, and it fits with your message. Urgency.

Hopefully that makes it through your spam filter… Oh well. Great post either way.

That line jumped out at me like crazy just now. I love the word “caricature.” I think the word “stereotype” has a bad… stereotype, and it’s overused. Caricature really nails what the issue is.

We see and focus on only one part of a person and as a result blow it out of proportion. That’s exactly what I think of when I think of a caricature. I think of a guy with a huge noise. Or a lady with weird lips and hips.

Great job painting a picture for me with just that one word. It totally fits the post. We have to see past the exaggerations and realize that real people – people with feelings like us – are behind all the caricatures we create.

-Marshall Jones Jr.

But it sound like you started to get that concept in 10th grade – I didn’t get that till I was well into my 20s, and it seems like every week I get another “opportunity” to see that a little more (love all those “opportunities God gives me).

Grace, second, third and forth chances… that is hard stuff.