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  From:  Trent_Fuller (TrentFuller)    6/25/2003 12:11 am  
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Simplicity is Divine

Mike Wells is my favorite all time teachers.  On one of his travels to the amazon, he found a street artist.  He almost stepped on him.  There on the ground was a man, well not exactly.  He was a head.  There was no body, just a head and a mass of tissue that extended from his neck that could easily fit inside a shoebox, and below that was a small extension of intestine that he could see below the tank top he was wearing.  The person laid on a mat, next to a skateboard and drew pictures of butterflies with his mouth all day for donations.  Mike let me see the photo, or I would not believe him.

Mike looked at his brother, who held the money, and said "give him some."  "Give him some more," Mike repeated and then he repeated it again, but this time his brother said, "What is he going to do with the money, Mike?  Buy a hat?  Your problems don't apply to him.  He'll never be so lucky to have your problems!"  

'The head' vexed Mike and he could not sleep.  He wrestled with God all night about why God would inflict this person that way.  Finally, the answer came a little different then he expected.  God said that He was not going to tell Mike why, but instead God told Mike what was "in- it" for Mike.  Basically, what God said, changed his ministry and message.  God said, "Do not teach anything that does not apply to 'the head' in the amazon.  If what you say is not fit for 'the head,' then don't ever teach it again."  ... and Mike hasn't.

... it all goes to show you that the deepest spiritual life, is for those that are the weakest.

I try to remember that story, when I over-complicate things.  I need to make sure that what I teach is something that "the head" can do.

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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    6/25/2003 7:40 am  
To:  Trent_Fuller (TrentFuller)    (2 of 3)  
 
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Hi Trent,

 

Good point.

 

I think I reached a similar conclusion during my time in the military.

 

In the military I deployed to several different nations and even though I had been to Mexico a few times I still was not prepared and surprised by the abject poverty that I saw in places like Korea, Somalia, Panama and even in the cities of the Philippines.

 

A site that always got to me was that surprisingly in many of the small towns and villages as we came in there would be women sitting in the dirt breastfeeding their baby and the whole village had practically nothing to exist on. Truly the world is a world of poverty, pain and suffering.

 

Every place I went to I could also see how very alike people are in their actions and hopes and desires. I know that the Bible is written to and applies to everyone and every circumstance in the world.

 

I think that is why I get so annoyed by the false teachings like the Mormons because while the world suffers the Mormons are busy playing and pretending to be gods, Not very helpful and not very compassionate in the real world.

 

God Bless you,
David



David A. Brown
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   From:  GatesFanLDS   6/25/2003 9:35 am  
To:  David (DavidABrown)    (3 of 3)  
 
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>>I think that is why I get so annoyed by the false teachings like the Mormons because while the world suffers the Mormons are busy playing and pretending to be gods, Not very helpful and not very compassionate in the real world.<< 
There you go...making assumption that have no foundation. It is very sad.
 
  
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