What a great word, Mike. I think we should all be looking at our places of work, schooling thru such spiritual eyes. (Even the Christian places.) It wouldn't take long, I'm sure, for most of us to become as perceptive as you did. Then we can better apply needed ministries to those w/ whom we come into contact. Had I that perspective when I was teaching in the public schools perhaps I wouldn't have been so willing to leave. --Allen On Tue, 30 May 2000 17:18:32 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 5/30/00 6:36:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Yes, Christian shirts are to be turned inside out, > > > When I was in High School I openly wore Christian T-shirts to school and > never did I have to turn it inside out. I was subtle about it, but then what > was really subtle about something like Stryper? They were a music group from > the mid 1980's to 1990's and they had Bible verses all over their stuff. It > wasn't any different than wearing a T-shirt from the music group Iron Maiden > or Dio or Slayer or any of those other non-Christian bands. Sure there was > talk about it, but never did they make me turn the shirt inside out. When I > was in High School I used Christian music to reach the unreachable. I used a > wide variety of different bands in various different genres because of their > proclaimed faiths. And the fruits of that labor was not in vain. > Several of the Metalheads gave their lives to the Lord. In my town there > were two well known Christian Music groups of which I had friends in and they > were the groups known as the Throes and Armageddon. I went to school with > Bill Campbell's wife Lisa, her mother and father were teachers of mine at the > Christian school I had went to in the 7th grade. (Bill is from the Throes) > and as for Armageddon, They were renamed Armageddon from the group formerly > known as Second Chance. It wasn't about the group, it was about what they had > said and how they presented it that reached those kids that so many others > before them had failed. The Holy Spirit was definitely involved in a place > where the spiritual warfare was so very tough. School was the spiritual > battlefield. So many of my classmates were consumed by the heavy metal genre > they would run around wearing pentagrams for earrings, black lipstick and > chains, clothes with more holes in them than a Swiss Cheese. They would have > all of this bodily piercing, spiked hairdos that made them look like the > crown on the Statue of Liberty, I kid you not. I have proof. I knew that > even then I had to look at school on the Spiritual level, not on the physical > level. The physical level was certainly one big mess, but on the Spiritual > level, there were people crying out for love that they were not getting at > home, there were spirits of bondage holding people back. What I saw was > profound, almost like looking at an X-ray. Some people had spirits of > disruption that surrounded them, and other had boisterous spirits around them > and other had spirits that chewed away at their self esteem. The contrast > was stark. I could tell who was affected by what. That wasn't hard. I could > tell who was going to do what by the type of company they kept, that wasn't > hard either. But when It came down to sharing Christ, I did it as openly as > I could and be able to get away with it. I perceived that as being the > excused (excused by God) instance that it was OK to go against the Rules as > far as that was concerned. School was the Mission Field. Later on in my > High School year I had the privilege of serving the Lord as a Missionary to > the country of Bolivia. That was like a survival camping trip that lasted a > month and a half. God uses ordinary people, people like you and me to > accomplish His objectives and carry out His will. Where ever you are, there > you will be. The Great Commission in Matthew 28 never stops applying. God > has blessed me with the gift of being able to communicate, I am a talented > singer, I was all they way back in High School. Today the Lord is blessing > me with the opportunity to minister to people through a gentle to moderate > assortment of different music selections that I offer through my own ministry > that I have dedicated to the Lord called Angel Flight Ministries. > > God Bless, > > Iron Mike > _______ > To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks! - A#1's mule" RTKB&G4JC! > http://rangernet.org Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp _______ To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks! - A#1's mule" RTKB&G4JC! http://rangernet.org Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
