Good News Bob
Member
I blew up my phone the other day with a text message and I did not know where it was to lead, but i enjoyed its end result. First I sent this text to a couple friends and my pastor:
Say I drew a target on the wall and had you throw darts at it. Could one say you will probably hit it? You throw a dart and miss. That you miss (or hit) has nothing to do with whether or not you would probably hit the target. If I say it looks like rain, the claim has nothing to do with the future but the present (probability). If I say it looks like rain, whether or not you see it rain is irrelevant. I only offer a description.
I saw my pastor and his wife and a few members of the small church I attend later that very day. THe pastor asked me if I was trying to confuse him or waste his time, to which I replied a little bit of both. We were all smiles, of course.
The next day, which is today, I sent a followup message to the Pastors' wife (since I had learned the night before that text messages cost the pastor $ and not his wife). I wrote:
Tell (name of Pastor) that the text I sent him yesterday is purposefully vague, or purposefully general. Some people say "it looks like rain" and some poeple say "it looks like armageddon".
I followed up this text with another text:
If it looks like armageddon, there is no sense in waiting for some event to occur that would verify the claim; just as if it looks like rain there is no sense in waiting for it to rain to verify the claim that it looks like rain. If it looks like rain, you keep your umbrella handy. No sense in waiting.
She replied:
Now that says something. What do you consider to be the umbrella?
And my last text to her was the following:
I hope that as you walk under uncertain skies you offer your umbrella to anyone standing in the rain (again, not everyone sees it rain, even if it looks like rain). But what is the umbrella? I know the umbrella is personal. You could share Christ, salvation, the Bible, or even a few words like these.
Say I drew a target on the wall and had you throw darts at it. Could one say you will probably hit it? You throw a dart and miss. That you miss (or hit) has nothing to do with whether or not you would probably hit the target. If I say it looks like rain, the claim has nothing to do with the future but the present (probability). If I say it looks like rain, whether or not you see it rain is irrelevant. I only offer a description.
I saw my pastor and his wife and a few members of the small church I attend later that very day. THe pastor asked me if I was trying to confuse him or waste his time, to which I replied a little bit of both. We were all smiles, of course.
The next day, which is today, I sent a followup message to the Pastors' wife (since I had learned the night before that text messages cost the pastor $ and not his wife). I wrote:
Tell (name of Pastor) that the text I sent him yesterday is purposefully vague, or purposefully general. Some people say "it looks like rain" and some poeple say "it looks like armageddon".
I followed up this text with another text:
If it looks like armageddon, there is no sense in waiting for some event to occur that would verify the claim; just as if it looks like rain there is no sense in waiting for it to rain to verify the claim that it looks like rain. If it looks like rain, you keep your umbrella handy. No sense in waiting.
She replied:
Now that says something. What do you consider to be the umbrella?
And my last text to her was the following:
I hope that as you walk under uncertain skies you offer your umbrella to anyone standing in the rain (again, not everyone sees it rain, even if it looks like rain). But what is the umbrella? I know the umbrella is personal. You could share Christ, salvation, the Bible, or even a few words like these.
