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Volume 3, Number 4 June~/1983
THE TRANSFORMING LOOK
A man came back to work in a place where he had been fired several months previously.
His work was superior.
A fellow worker remembered how inconsistent he had been in the past and asked, "What happened to make such a difference in you?"
The man told this story:
When I was in college I was part of a fraternity initiation committee.
We placed the new members in the middle of a long stretch of a country road.
I was to drive my car at as great a speed as possible straight at them.
The challenge was for them to stand firm until a signal was given to jump out of the way.
It was a dark night.
I had reached one hundred miles an hour and saw their looks of terror in the headlights.
The signal was given and everyone jumped clear — except one boy.
I left college after that.
I later married and have two children.
The look on that boy's face as I passed over him at a hundred miles an hour stayed in my mind all the time.
I became hopelessly inconsistent, moody, and finally became a problem drinker.
My wife had to work to bring in the only income we had.
I was drinking at home one morning when someone rang the doorbelll.
I opened to find myself facing a woman who seemed strangely familiar.
She sat down in our living room and told me she was the mother of the boy I had killed years before.
She said that she had hated me and spent agonizing nights rehearsing ways to get revenge.
I then listened as she told me of the love and forgiveness that had come when she gave her heart to Christ.
She said, "I have come to let you know that I forgive you and I want you to forgive me."
I looked into her eyes that morning and I saw deep in her eyes the permission to be the kind of man I might have been had I never killed that boy.
That forgiveness changed my whole life.
The above story was submitted by Dr. Ralph Hodge of Bethlehem Baptist Church of Louisville, Kentucky.
Pastor Hodge comments on his use of the story in John 8: "1 tie it into how the woman must have felt who was brought before Jesus after being caught in adultery.
I believe I will ask her, in heaven someday, how she felt when He looked up at her after writing on the ground.
She will say, 'I saw deep in his eyes the permission to be the kind of woman I might have been had I never lived the kind of life I had lived.'"
John 8:1-11, Forgiveness
OBLIVIOUS
Maybe it's a weakness in my character — but I really liked the following story.
Perhaps you can use this to illustrate fallen man, who is often oblivious of the dilemma he's in.
Or maybe you can use it to start out a sermon on wayward fathers on Father's Day.
Anyhow, it seems this particular fellow frequently came home drunk and he was so far gone that he would fall into bed fully clothed, pass out and then snore loudly all night long.
Finally, his wife was losing so much sleep because of his snoring that she went to her doctor and said, "Doc, I can't take it any longer.
If you'll only tell me how to keep him from snoring, I'll pay you anything."
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The doctor said there was no problem at all.
He could give her the answer and he wouldn't even charge her.
He told her that whenever her husband passed out and started to snore she was to take a ribbon and tie it around his nose, and his snoring would stop.
Well, that night her husband came in as usual, fell across the bed, fully dressed, passed out and started snoring.
The wife got up, pulled a blue ribbon from her dresser, and tied it around his nose.
Sure enough, the snoring stopped.
Next morning, the wife, fully refreshed, was preparing breakfast and asked her husband, as he was awakening, "Honey, where were you last night?"
The husband, still fully clothed, looked in the mirror and seeing the blue ribbon around his nose, replied, "I don't know, but wherever I was, I won first prize!"
Sent in by Marty Youngkin, Associate Pastor, Fellowship Bible Church, Piano, Texas.
CONCENTRATE
Peppermint Patty is talking to Charlie Brown and she says, "My Uncle has always wanted
to play the violin.
Last week he went down to a music store, and bought one.
Then he
went to a concert to watch the violinists play to see how they did it.
Then he went
home, picked up his new violin and tried it himself.
He couldn't play at all! Next
time he goes to a concert, he says he's going to try sitting closer!
Submitted by William Stehr, Pastor of St. James Lutheran Church of Jacksonville,
Florida
WHOOP DE DO
Rev. Charles Kinyon, Pastor of Flagler Baptist Church of Flagler, Colorado sent in this quote from James Dobson's book Emotions: Can You Trust Them?
Dobson tells the story as related to him by his mother about the high school she attended in 1930:
It was located in a small Oklahoma town which had produced a series of terrible football teams.
They usually lost the important games and were invariably clobbered by their arch rivals from a nearby community.
Understandably, the students and their parents began to get depressed and dispirited by the drubbing their troops were given every Friday night.
It must have been awful.
Finally, a wealthy oil producer decided to take matters in his own hands.
He asked to speak to the team in the locker room after yet another devastating defeat.
What followed was one of the most dramatic football speeches of all times.
The businessman proceeded to offer a brand new Ford to every boy on the team and to each coach if they would simply defeat their bitter rivals in the next game.
Knute Rockne couldn't have said it better.
The team went crazy with sheer delight.
They howled and cheered and slapped each other on their padded behinds.
For seven days, the boys ate, drank and breathed football.
At night they dreamed about touchdowns and rumbleseats.
The entire school caught the spirit of ecstasy, and a holiday fever pervaded the campus.
Each player could visualize himself behind the wheel of a gorgeous coupe, with eight gorgeous girls hanging all over his gorgeous body.
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Finally, the big night arrived and the team assembled in the locker room.
Excitement was at an unprecedented high.
The coach made several inane comments and the boys hurried out to face the enemy.
They assembled on the sidelines, put their hands together and shouted a simultaneous "Rah" They ran onto the field and were demolished, 38 to 0.
The team's exuberance did not translate into a single point on the Scoreboard.
Seven days of hoorah and whoop-de-do simply couldn't compensate for the players lack of discipline and conditioning and practice and study and coaching and drill and experience and character.
Such is the nature of emotion.
It has a definite place in human affairs, but when forced to stand alone, feelings usually reveal themselves to be unreliable and ephemeral and even a bit foolish.
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