PICK UP STICKS

If your mind draws a blank, is it still art?

Should Conformity be a yardstick, not a ruler?

If you stand for nothing, will you fall for anything?

Is backsliding better than stonewalling?

If pro is the opposite of con, is congress the opposite of progress?

Why is evil the mirror reflection of live?

Do sacred cows taste better than regular cows?

Can time limited mortals live in the eternal moment?

Can men and women who say they serve and love the living God reach maturity while following the religious traditions of their ancestors?

Do our traditions in any way resemble those Jesus sought to replace with the personal relationship with our Heavenly Father?

Does God care if you go to church?

Does God judge us as harshly as do our neighbors?

Is it really more blessed to give than receive, and if so why don't more people do it?

Was the New Covenant intended to replace the Old Covenant?

If so, was it because Jesus insisted that we begin to recognize the Creator as a loving Heavenly Father instead of a God bent on anger, jealousy, and one who participates and endorses war?

Did Jesus endorse the separation of church and state when he said we should render unto Caesar that which belongs to Caesar, and unto God that which belongs to God?

Does God really expect one of His Muslim children to believe in Jesus after America has made Christianity a religion that celebrates our western culture?

Does Christianity owe the American Indians an apology or do we think that it was only the government that mistreated them?

When Jesus warned people to not grieve the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth poured out on all flesh, was it because He knew that we would create a religion about Him rather than a religion about what He said we should do?

Is it worse to reject Jesus or the Holy Spirit?

Is the Holy Spirit working ceaselessly on behalf of all humanity?

Is Jesus brilliant enough to have foreseen where we are right now?

Is Jesus more concerned that all faiths find the one, true God more than Himself?

If not, doesn't He know our time-bound limitations and ignorant predisposition?

Will Jesus send to hell a Vietnam veteran who turned his back on Christianity after being called a baby killer by the Christians whose freedoms he fought to defend?

Will the Mercy and Forgiveness of a loving Heavenly Father turn His back on the Australian Aborigines?

Do we in our arrogance really think that we serve God any better than the Hindus just because we know Jesus?

If a Hindu or Moslem lays down their life for their fellow man, enacting the "greater love has no man than this", does that mean the ultimate love of 'losing one's life to gain it' doesn't apply to them?

Does that 'greatest love' of which Jesus spoke serve the living God because the Holy Spirit is working within them?

Are we too impatient because we selfishly want Jesus to return in our lifetime?

If we are too impatient is it possible that several thousand years might still come to pass before the wheat and chaff can be safely separated?

Did anybody mess with the Bible and ignore the Divine Copyright warning in the book of Revelation?

Why do so many varying Christian sects exist?

Was it God who created the many versions of Christianity or was it man?

Do men fight and die over their different versions of Christianity?

Is it arrogant for men and women to insist that they have the "chosen" flavor of Christianity?

Do we really think God approves the slaughter of innocent blood?

If the Protestants and Catholics knew they worshipped the same God, making them brothers, could they still kill each other?

If they can kill each other, does that mean they worship different Gods?

Could the God that Jesus introduced humanity to, the one who heals, delivers, forgives and has mercy be the same God of either side?

What about the Southern Baptists, Independent Baptists, Mormons, Episcopalians, Seventh Day Adventists, Church of God Scientist, Charismatics, Evangelicals, African Methodist Episcopal, Methodists, Apostolics, Assemblies of God, Wesleyans, Mennonites, Pentecostals, Churches of Christ, Church of God, Full Gospel, Holiness, Evangelical Covenant, Alliance, Christian, Church of God Scientist, Disciples of Christ, Latter Day Saints, Lutheran, Jehovah's Witness, Non-Denominational, Inter-Denominational, Unitarian, and probably Un-Denomination for Christ's sake…what about all these different beliefs? Who is served by chaos within the body of Christ? WHO IS SERVED BY CHAOS WITHIN THE BODY OF CHRIST? WHO IS SERVED BY THE BLOODSHED WITHIN THE BODY OF CHRIST? WHO IS SERVED BY INTOLERANCE, PRIDE, UNFORGIVENESS, CHOSEN PEOPLE SUPERIORITY, ARROGANT KINDERGARTEN VIRTUES WITHIN THE HOLY, SUPREME, UNQUALIFIED, ETERNAL LOVING MIND OF GOD?

I doubt that it is our loving Heavenly Father.

Do as Jesus said. No more, no less. Do as Jesus did. Do good as you pass by.

Remember, God indwells all who make moral and unselfish decisions. God is waiting for the opportunity to become alive and serve and bear the fruits of the spirit within all mortals on this planet.

Our Heavenly Father knows best. He knows Jesus knew Him best. God knows, sooner or later, we all experience Jesus before we continue in the grand eternal ascent towards Paradise.

Is it possible we, as Christians, have judged others too soon?

Is our universe too small?

Is our God too small?

Is our love too small?