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One Sunday morning during service, a 2000-member congregation was surprised to see two men enter, both covered from head to toe in black and carrying sub-machine guns. One of the men proclaimed, 

"Anyone willing to take a bullet for Christ, remain where you are."

Immediately, the choir fled, the deacons fled, and most of the congregation fled. Out of the 2000 there only remained 20. The man who had spoken took off his hood, looked at the preacher and said, 

"Okay Pastor, I got rid of all the hypocrites. Now you may begin your service. Have a nice day." And the two men turned and walked out.

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world is going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. 

Funny how everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do not have to believe, think, say, or do anything the Bible says. Funny or is it scary?

Funny how someone say, �I believe in God,� but still follow Satan ( who by the way, also "believes" in God.) 

Funny how you can share a thousand jokes though multiple media and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sharing messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny isn�t it?

Funny how someone can be so fired up for Christ on Sunday but be an invisible Christian the rest of the week. Are you laughing? 

Funny how when you go and share this story, you will share it to as many people you know because you�re not sure what they believe or what they will think of you for sharing this to them. Funny how you can be more worried about what other people think of you than what God thinks of you. Are you thinking? 

Will you share this with people you care about? Or not?

Sunflower Photo Caption
"Girl with Flowers"

Music: "Send Me" === I got it from a fun page sent to me by a friend.

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*** CHUCKLES ***

I got this story from Ate Crispy's diskette again. We posted this on the UST Center for Campus Ministry's Bulletin Board located at the UST Main Building. Do not be surprised if you see lots of stories here coming from UST CCM. That is because that we where I got most of them.

The greatest love that we can give for someone is to give up and lay down one's life...for a friend. And the biggest example that we can illustrate for this story is JESUS. He gave us His life to save us from our debts and promise us Salvation. He never asked for anything in return and yet He died for us.

The story is not a test anyway. But it is very heart-pounding. Who can even dare sacrifice his own life for a friend? Only Christ. Let us just bear in mind that this life is not ours anyway. Someday, we have to give it back to Him.