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    True Believers Arent Only Christian

    I want to dedicate this to a friend of mine Kate who made me see that we often writeto a self perceived audience: thanks Kate.

    In a conversation recently I realized that we often use words innocently enough thatmay have an overburden of intent, for Christians this includes one word that I haveused in the title, two maybe; True, and more specifically, believers.

    Im sure that most people know the story of the man who thought he had a great ideaand went on to invent the item he believed would make his idea work. It took timeand so the story goes nine hundred and ninety nine times but on the thousandthattempt his experiments eventually succeeded. The mans name was Thomas AlvaEdison and the item was the electric light globe, he was a man of vision and createdmany products that we take for granted. But beyond the vision he was a TrueBeliever, after all Jesus told the story of the one sheep that was lost of a hundred,Edison pushed his experiment to ten time that to see a result. Edison may havebeen a Christian, his wife definitely was, but regardless his vision and belief in thenew technology resulted in 1093 patented inven tions, he was a true believer.

    True Believers come in all sort of areas. The Football true believer is possibly auniversal code, concept, a person who will support a team regardless of theirwin/loss ratio, or championship success for decades, in Victo ria there are supporterswho have been and still are waiting for a Premiership flag since the last one that wasfifty years ago. For some of these true believers it must surely rank as almost areligious fervour, a statement of faith that their beloved te am will again hold up thetrophy at the end of the season. Of course from observation, supporting a team infootball, regardless of position in the stats becomes almost a statement of faith. Thistends to come out at events like live games where supporters of both teams areallowed to mingle, just to listen to the good versus evil vitriol of footballers tends toremind me, at least, of the sort of argument within Christian dogma.

    So what has this to do with a persons faith, Or anything else fo r that matter?

    Faith is not a true or false statement. This might sound weird coming from a publicChristian but it is true. As a Christian I choose Jesus as my motivator, it is only byfaith and experience that I believe He is the right choice. I would imagine tha t peoplewho chose Wicca, or Islam, Buddhism or even secular humanism or Atheism mightmake a very similar argument to me. This is very much a quasi Gen Y concept, whoseem to base their life choices on what works for me.

    This is not to say that I accept any or even an alternate as just as valid as followingthe leadership of Jesus. He said that He was the way the truth and the life and thenwent on to say No man comes to the Father (God) but by me. This is the pointwhere other faiths differ from Christianity. Some are willing to accept Jesus as one

    of their group of gods, others are quite willing to co-exist in isolation, while others areapathetic, and yet others are anti-anything associated with Christianity. Only timeand death will tell who is ultimately right, but I am backing Jesus on that score.

    Faith if I am being brutally honest is not about a secret knowledge, understanding ora sacred writing, but in what you invest your life and what gives your life meaning .For the Christian there is the concept of the now and not yet, now in terms of ourdaily life and the not yet looks forward to a life beyond this; after all I the re is no lifeafter this why was Jesus brought back to life?

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    For me, I see my here and now as an opportunity to reflect Jesus to those aroundme, so that in some way they may see the real Him, and desire to be introduced tomy Best Mate and Saviour. This is my highest calling so that they too may be able toexperience the highs of living the Jesus life, as the Chri stian Hippies us to say in the70s Jesus Hes the natural high.