12jun15 LEAKS
I was never a very good pastor or salesman. I always worry too much about the one who got away. Jesus was the same way. He said to worry about the 1 more than the 99.
I have a friend named Gary. He has been a crack addict for almost twenty years. I used to let him sleep in my front yard. I couldn’t let him into the house, because when I did, he would rob me. I remember a few times when he asked me to just hose him down with a garden hose. Pretty grungy. He became a Christian about a year ago. He goes to our ‘church’. No one really talks to him. I love him and always go out of my way to say hi to him and give him a hug and see if I can encourage him in anyway. If you don’t know the reality of crack, it is a miracle to leave crack after being on it for 15 years. Recently he told me,, ‘ I am a Christian now just like you!’ but in kind of defensive mode, He gets snubbed a lot, although he is clean and holding down a full time job. I told him, ‘Gary, you are not a Christian like me,, you are a BETTER Christian than I am’. I bleed for that ONE person more than the other 99. Probably because I am that 1 too. I know how hard it is. I probably would have left that church a long time ago if I were Gary. Sad part is Gary is young. He was a little kid going to church twenty years ago. He left. He leaked out of the system and ended up on the street. Every kid WANTS to be the 99. No one in their right mind wants to be the one. No kid raises his hand in 3rd grade and says that to be a crack addict when I grow up. But those are the ones that Jesus hand picks. He leaves the 99 for that 1. That is why I love Him so much. So, if you are a 1, praise God! I just feel that our attitudes towards people that are different from us keep them from coming. And if they ARE brave enough to come, they get hurt!
Leaks in the roof are similar to the 1 that got away. As leaks damage houses one drop at a time, the House of the Lord is damaged by them as well. The Winner Home is SUFFERING because of them right now! Leaks come one at a time. Roofs shelter us from millions of drops of water, we don’t even notice them. BUT those few drops out of a million that do get in are really destructive. They add up fast. One out of a hundred, piling up. You usually don’t know you have a dripping leak because the ceiling is hiding it, all nice and painted white. It looks idyllic UNTIL that final drop comes in and BOOM, your house inside looks like the Niagara Falls (our present home and Pre K look) when the ceilings give way.
Our ministry, I like to believe, is more worried about that 1 than the 99. The 99 are popular, the 1 is easily forgotten. The 1 usually gets kicked to the side of the road of the popularity contests.
I want to encourage you to proactively look for the ONE in your church, at a McDonalds (the little old bag lady in the corner talking to her headless baby doll) or in your school. You both will be glad you did. Or maybe not. If you do it out of love, it doesn’t matter.
Our ONES are the impoverished children of Nicaragua. A lady recently said, “well there are poor kids in America too”. Although the poorest kid in America is a millionaire compared to a normal poor kid in Nicaragua,she has made a valid point. The truth is, there ARE poor kids in America too. Poor, dirty kids are SO easy to forget. There are so many happy shiny people out there to distract us. It is much easier to be with the 99 in school, potluck dinners,Sunday schools, clubs, prayer groups, church, a Bible study or something else that looks like a holy thing to do.
Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street
Attached is a recap I sent out two years ago… with some minor updates of 6 of the children there. They are still in the food line, still kind and sweet as ever.. Please pray for them.
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A LEAKLESS WINNER HOME! (TALKING ABOUT BOTH KINDS OF LEAKS)
Dean Peters
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Nunca fui un muy buen pastor o vendedor. Siempre me preocupo por el que se escapó. Jesús era de la misma manera. Dijo que preocuparse por la 1 más que el 99.
Tengo un amigo llamado Gary. Ha sido un adicto al crack durante casi veinte años. Yo solía dejarlo dormir en mi jardín. Yo no lo podía dejar en la casa, porque cuando lo hice, me robo. Recuerdo un par de veces cuando se me pidió que lavarlo con una manguera de jardín. Bastante sucio. Se convirtió en un cristiano hace aproximadamente un año. Él va a la nuestra “iglesia”. En realidad, nadie habla con él. Lo amo y siempre lo busco para darle un abrazo y ver si puedo en algo. Si usted no sabe, es un milagro de salir del crack después de estar en él durante 15 años. Recientemente me dijo ,, “Soy cristiano ahora como tú! ‘ pero de modo defensivo, Él siempre esta ignorado, a pesar de que está limpio y mantiene un trabajo a tiempo completo. Le dije, ‘Gary, usted no es un cristiano como yo ,, usted es un cristiano mejor que yo’. Me duele para los personas así, olvidado, esforzándose. Me preocupo más por este persona singular que el otro 99. Probablemente porque estoy uno de ellos también. Si yo fuera Gary, probablemente habría dejado esa iglesia hace mucho tiempo. Gary es joven. Hace 20 anos fue un chavalito. Congregaba. Dejo de congregar. Termino en la calle.
Las fugas en el techo son similares al uno que salió de la fe. Estas dañan toda la casa del Señor. El Winner Home está sufriendo a causa de las fugas ahora mismo! Fugas vienen de una en una. Techos nos cobijan de millones de gotas de agua, ni siquiera los notamos. Pero esas pocas gotas de cada millón que se interponen en son realmente destructivo. Ellos se suman rápidamente. Uno de cada cien, acumulando. Por lo general no sabe que tiene unas fugas de goteo porque el cielo raso está ocultándolas. El cielo raso parece agradable, pintado de blanco. Parece perfecto, HASTA que el agua pesa mucho y entra. BOOM! su casa en el interior se ve como el Niagara Falls cuando los techos dan paso.
Corazón Puro, me gusta creer, es más preocupado por eso UNO que el 99. El 99 son populares, el UNO se olvida fácilmente. El 1 recibe una patada a un lado de la carretera del concurso de popularidad.
Quiero animarte a buscar de forma proactiva para la 1 en su iglesia, en un MacDonalds (el pequeño bolso de la señora de edad en la esquina hablando con ella sin cabeza de la muñeca) o en su escuela. Ambos le alegran que usted lo hizo.
Nuestros UNOS son los niños pobres de Nicaragua. Una señora dijo recientemente, “así hay niños pobres en América también “. Ni siquiera es una comparación, pero tiene un punto. La verdad es que hay niños pobres en América también. Niños sucios y pobres son fáciles de olvidar. Hay tantas personas felices para distraernos. Es mucho más fácil para estar con el 99 en las escuelas dominicales, clubes, grupos de oración, la iglesia, un estudio de la Biblia o cualquier otra cosa que se ve como una cosa sagrada que hacer.