Monday, May 19, 2008

And now for something completely different

Ok Leith Ann, where's that line from?

And now for something completely different (not humorous).

A friend of mine passed away suddenly last week. Steve was 52 when he died of a heart attack in his own front yard. He was someone I'd known for about 12 years or so because one of his sons and my son Drew are the same age and in the same grade and went to the same schools and played in the same bands in jr. high....etc. For the last several years Steve was in the Sunday School class I teach. He was obviously knowledgeable of the Scriptures and I believe we held many of the same doctrinal positions. I believe this based on his responses to some of the subjects that came up that were somewhat controversial -- but we never explored them together because we were not covering those particular topics at the time. We'll get to those one of these days we would say to the class and Steve would smile knowingly and in anticipation of some lively discussion we would have. Just the Sunday before he died we had talked about all the questions we have about the true interpretation of some of these doctrines and how there's only one true interpretation -- that of the author, God's Holy Spirit. We found that we agree on the belief that when we do get to heaven (some day) that we won't have these questions anymore, in fact we agreed that when we do get to heaven (some day) that there will be no questions because we will know the truth then. The truth is a person and in His presence all questions will cease. "Some day" for Steve was last Tuesday in the afternoon in his front yard. I'll miss Steve and those discussions we were going to have one say.

That was completely different.

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