A Great Story About A Little Boy

[Maria]

Got this from one of my Christian friends through an email. It touches my heart when I read this story. Please, share this with your friends, families and children -- the ones who you love. It's great testimony to share with.


Every Sunday afternoon, after the morning service at the church, the
Pastor and his eleven-year-old son would go out into their town and
hand out Gospel Tracts. This particular Sunday afternoon, as it came
time for the Pastor and his son to go to the streets with their
tracts, it was very cold outside, as well as pouring down rain. The
boy bundled up in his warmest clothes and said; "OK dad, I'm ready."
His Pastor dad asked, "Ready for what?" "Dad, it's time we gather our
tracts together and go out." Dad responds, "Son, it's very cold
outside and it's pouring down rain."

The boy gives his dad a surprised look, asking "But Dad, aren't people
still going to Hell, even though it's raining?" Dad answers, "Son, I
am not going out in this weather." Despondently, the boy asked, "Dad,
can I go? Please?" His father hesitated for a moment then said, "Son,
you can go.

Here are the tracts, be careful son." "Thanks Dad!" And with that, he
was off and out into the rain.

This eleven-year-old boy walked the streets of the town going door to
door and handing everybody he met in the street a Gospel Tract. After
two hours of walking in the rain, he was soaking, bone-chilled wet and
down to his VERY LAST TRACT. He stopped on a corner and looked for
someone to hand a tract to, but the streets were totally deserted.
Then he turned toward the first home he saw and started up the
sidewalk to the front door and rang the doorbell. He rang the bell,
but nobody answered. He rang it again and again, but still no one
answered.
He waited but still no answer. Finally, this eleven-year-old trooper
turned to leave, but something stopped him. Again, he turned to the
door and rang the bell and knocked loudly on t he door with his fist.
He waited, something holding him there on the front porch. He rang
again, and this time the door slowly opened. Standing in the doorway
was a very sad-looking elderly lady. She softly asked, "What can I do
for you son?"
With radiant eyes and a smile that lit up her world, this little boy
said: "Ma'am, I'm sorry if I disturbed you, but I just want to tell
you that *JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU* and I came to give you my very
last Gospel Tract which will tell you all about JESUS and His great
LOVE." With that, he handed her his last tract and turned to leave.
She called to him as he departed: "Thank you, son! And God Bless You!"

Well, the following Sunday morning in church Pastor Dad was in the
pulpit. As the service began, he asked, "Does anybody have testimony,
or want to say anything?" Slowly, in the back row of the church, an
elderly lady stood to her feet.
As she began to speak, a look of glorious radiance on her face, "No
one in this church knows me. I've never been here before. You see,
before last Sunday I was not a Christian. My husband passed on some
time ago, leaving me totally alone in this world. Last Sunday, being a
particularly cold and rainy day, it was even more so in my heart that
I came to the end of the line where I no longer had any hope or will
to live. So I took a rope and a chair and ascended the stairway into
the attic of my home. I fastened the rope securely to a rafter in the
roof, then stood on the chair and fastened the other end of the rope
around my neck.
I was standing on that chair, so lonely and brokenhearted I was about
to leap off, when suddenly the loud ringing of my doorbell downstairs
startled me. I thought, "I'll wait a minute, and whoever it is will go
away." I waited and waited, but the ringing doorbell seemed to get
louder and more insistent, and then the person ringing also started
knocking loudly. I thought to myself again, "Who on earth could this
be? Nobody ever rings my bell or comes to see me." I loosened the rope
from my neck and started for the front door, and all the while the
bell rang louder and louder. When I opened the door and looked I could
hardly believe my eyes, for there on my front porch was the most
radiant and angelic little boy I had ever seen in my life!
His SMILE, oh, I could never describe it to you! The words that came
from his mouth caused my heart, that had long been dead, TO LEAP TO
LIFE as he exclaimed with a cherub-like voice, "Ma'am, I just came to
tell you that JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU." Then he gave me this
Gospel Tract that I now hold in my hand.
As the little angel disappeared back out into the cold and rain, I
closed my door and read slowly every word of this Gospel Tract. Then
I went up to my attic to get my rope and chair. I wouldn't need them
any more, you see. Now I am a Happy Child of the KING. Since the
address of your church was on the back of this Gospel Tract, I have
come here to personally say THANK YOU TO God's little angel who came
just in the nick of time and by so doing, spared my soul from
eternity in hell."
There was not a dry eye in the church as shouts of praise and honor to
THE KING resounded off the very rafters of the building.
Pastor Dad descended from the pulpit to the front pew where the little
angel was seated. He took his son in his arms and sobbed
uncontrollably.
Probably no church has had a more glorious moment, and probably this
universe has never seen a Papa that was more filled with love & honor
for his son... except for One. This Father also allowed His Son to go
out into a cold and dark world He received His Son back with joy
unspeakable, and as all of heaven shouted praises and honor to The
King, the Father sat His beloved Son on a throne far above all
principality and power and every name that is named.
Blessed are your eyes for reading this message.
Don't let this message die, read it again and pass it to others. We
will meet in heaven!

Only two defining forces
have ever offered to die for you,
Jesus Christ and the American G.I.
One died for your soul, the others for your freedom.

 

[Teresh]

Another Christian story where the moral is that God hates Creation.

Clerk, file under "N" for "nonsense".

 

[WhisperHorse]

Oh aww, thank you for bring it up. I did read that before, it does touch my heart when I read it. It's wonderful

 

[deafdyke]

Why are Christians so fond of glurge like this? Sometimes I think they have the mentality of a Hallmark greeting card or the depth of a Thomas Kinkaid painting.

 

[christlovedeaf]

It is a beautiful story and it is NO nonsense. It shows how beautiful and the love that God has shown us thru His Son, Jesus, our Savior. Big smile

 

[Teresh]

It is a beautiful story and it is NO nonsense. It shows how beautiful and the love that God has shown us thru His Son, Jesus, our Savior. Big smile

And yet it operates on the assumption that God hates Creation...

 

[deafdyke]

I'm not saying that it's nonsense. I'm just saying that it's incredibily cheesy and could send a diabetic into insulian shock!

 

[pek1]

Good post, CyberRed!

 

[christlovedeaf]

God does not hate creation. How can He hates it what He created? Its not the creation, its how people are living and reject His offer. As people's reputations, temperature is dropping and getting colder.

 

[Teresh]

God does not hate creation. How can He hates it what He created?

God doesn't hate Creation... But Christianity claims that God does hate Creation.

Christianity says that if you don't believe in Jesus you go to hell. This teaching naturally requires that God hate Creation on the basis that God has systematically condemned most of Creation to an eternity of suffering in hell as most people are not Christian.

Thus, according to Christian teaching, God logically must hate Creation if God is going to arbitrarily condemn most of it to the "lake of fire".

 

[christlovedeaf]

*sigh*, teresh, we have shared with you many times, and still you still didn't get it. It isn't people themselves and I say all of us, God gave us freewill, if God hates ceation, then He will not have sent His Son. ItLs sin that destroying us, bec hand down from Adam, but Christ saves us all, but again, God gave each of us freewill. Satan blind and percert what God has offer, and his goal is to destroy us, but God gave us life thru Christ to bring us with Him. Remember people have a choice.

 

[RedFox]

Those stories are not that hard to make up. I had a Christian friend make up the same sort of story within an hour to entertain other Christians. The story posted here also has a parellel between the boy who handed out tracts and Jesus, along with their fathers, which is a storytelling device. Having the kid go out in the rain also looks like an encouragement for Christians to work hard at saving as many people as they can, no matter what the conditions are, because of the importance they put on spreading their religion.

Another storytelling device is the old woman who got saved from hell in the nick of time by one little tract. It's to make the Christians feel that their work on spreading their religion is important and good. In real life, it's not likely that someone that old and within walking distance of Christians would not know some things about their beliefs. Not being a Christian while living close to them for that long usually means that the person has good reasons for not being one and if they're well read about Christianity, they would have seen all of the arguements the tracts use and would not be converted by one like that.

 

[deafdyke]

Why do we have to accept Jesus? Why isn't accepting Mithras, Krishna, and many other manifesations of God just as good? Look the reason why many people aren't Christians is simple. It's not the lack of tracts......Many non Christian folks I know, read tracts and analyze them.....Look over at Straight Dope for an almost constant discussion and analyzation of the Chick tracts. Virtually EVERYONE has known about Jesus. Even I have, and I grew up in a very secular family (atheist/Unitarian) It's not that we don't know about Jesus........many of us DO......it's just that we don't get all the inconsistances in the Bible, we don't get how Christians can profess to be all loving and kind and everyhting, and then turn around and be nasty judgmental hypocritcial holier-then-thou types. We don't get a lot of stuff.......Hey, I have friends who are wicked devout Christians and Catholics and THEY say that quite a few fundie extremist christians are just too......not exactly reasonably moderate.

 

[christlovedeaf]

No, you don't have to, God gave u a choice. The point is, is Jesus your defense lawyer? How your sin debt be paid full? Sin is not what you do, its your position, all are born sin, sin doesn't mean what you did, its been passed down from Adam and all been tainted by sin and stain. That's why sacrifice. Till when Jesus came down to become human like us, but no sin in Him. He came to die for all of us to save us from the wrath of God's judgement. Jesus took our place. Now, like if I'm a pastor, going to church faithfully, teaching sunday school or singing in choir or helping people , but no JesusL blood covered, sin remain and judgement be against us, bec sin charged against us, that's why Jesus took care of it all. No blood, no hope. Remember, its each person decision either accept His awesome gift or reject His gift to you. Rmember, each of us has to agree, we have sinned against Him and believe in ur heart. Remember the picture, Jesus standing by the door? Notice no doornob? Meaning? He didn't force in or barge in, He waiting for u to invite Him in your life. See, thatsthe love of God. Smile

 

[RedFox]

No, you don't have to, God gave u a choice.

Yeah, we don't have to, yet the god's omniscience gave him full knowledge at the point of the supposed creation that all of this would happen with some people not getting saved, yet he created the world. It'd be nicer if he didn't create the world like this where he knew full well that creating a world like this would result in people being tortured forever for finite violations of the god's rules.

The point is, is Jesus your defense lawyer? How your sin debt be paid full? Sin is not what you do, its your position, all are born sin, sin doesn't mean what you did, its been passed down from Adam and all been tainted by sin and stain.

If you think that evil nature was passed down from the first two people, that presupposes that humanity started with two fully human people and that is actually a 'thing' called a stain that is passed down. How do you differentiate this 'evil stain' from the natural drive of humans to survive, bad teachings and bad experiences? Believing that humans are evil by nature with no evidence that goodness is never natural is a way to make people feel bad about themselves and join your religion. It's how the religon grows and survives.

That's why sacrifice. Till when Jesus came down to become human like us, but no sin in Him. He came to die for all of us to save us from the wrath of God's judgement. Jesus took our place. Now, like if I'm a pastor, going to church faithfully, teaching sunday school or singing in choir or helping people , but no JesusL blood covered, sin remain and judgement be against us, bec sin charged against us, that's why Jesus took care of it all. No blood, no hope.

I know how the religous people explain how the sacrifice worked because I studied it and they explained it to me. Stand back and think about the whole thing. A god is sending what is called his son, which is really the same god, to be tortured and nailed up onto a stick to enable us to get saved from our supposely evil nature that'd otherwise be compared against the god's rules, which makes it impossible not to be tortured forever for finite violations unless we accept that the god having himself tortured by parts of his own creation is the only way for the same god not torture us forever.

I consider this sort of god to be sick, psycho and sadistic. Plus you have no evidence of humanity being basically evil. This leads to goodness never being considered natural, which devalues all good actions by any human as being unnatural to their true selves and totally artificial in the sense of coming only from teachings that have to supress a supposely fundamental evil nature. In this way, I see Christianity as demeaning humanity.

Remember, its each person decision either accept His awesome gift or reject His gift to you. Rmember, each of us has to agree, we have sinned against Him and believe in ur heart. Remember the picture, Jesus standing by the door? Notice no doornob? Meaning? He didn't force in or barge in, He waiting for u to invite Him in your life. See, thatsthe love of God. Smile

That same god, if he's omniscientist, would have to have known everything, including what people use their free will for, otherwise he cannot be called omniscientist. I don't consider it very loving for a supposely loving and omniscientist god to throw someone into hell for using logic and reason with evidence from universe to conclude that the religion and god are myths because the god, knowing everything, would have to full well know about such people when he supposely created the universe.

I consider it much simpler to consider the whole thing a myth created because people didn't know as much back then than we do now.

 

[deafdyke]

where he knew full well that creating a world like this would result in people being tortured forever for finite violations of the god's rules.

and there's constant disagreement over what exactly consistutes a sin. The Baptists think dancing is a sin, some fundamentalists think that women wearing pants is a sin, some think that listening to rock music is a sin and so on........
there's really no conscenous on what God sees as a sin.
MAN wrote the Bible. The Bible says that Man is totally depraved. Man cannot accurately articulate correctly the power that we call God. That's like thinking that someone with profound mental retardation can understand Einstien or other great thinkers.

 

[christlovedeaf]

Yeah, we don't have to, yet the god's omniscience gave him full knowledge at the point of the supposed creation that all of this would happen with some people not getting saved, yet he created the world. It'd be nicer if he didn't create the world like this where he knew full well that creating a world like this would result in people being tortured forever for finite violations of the god's rules.



If you think that evil nature was passed down from the first two people, that presupposes that humanity started with two fully human people and that is actually a 'thing' called a stain that is passed down. How do you differentiate this 'evil stain' from the natural drive of humans to survive, bad teachings and bad experiences? Believing that humans are evil by nature with no evidence that goodness is never natural is a way to make people feel bad about themselves and join your religion. It's how the religon grows and survives.



I know how the religous people explain how the sacrifice worked because I studied it and they explained it to me. Stand back and think about the whole thing. A god is sending what is called his son, which is really the same god, to be tortured and nailed up onto a stick to enable us to get saved from our supposely evil nature that'd otherwise be compared against the god's rules, which makes it impossible not to be tortured forever for finite violations unless we accept that the god having himself tortured by parts of his own creation is the only way for the same god not torture us forever.

I consider this sort of god to be sick, psycho and sadistic. Plus you have no evidence of humanity being basically evil. This leads to goodness never being considered natural, which devalues all good actions by any human as being unnatural to their true selves and totally artificial in the sense of coming only from teachings that have to supress a supposely fundamental evil nature. In this way, I see Christianity as demeaning humanity.



That same god, if he's omniscientist, would have to have known everything, including what people use their free will for, otherwise he cannot be called omniscientist. I don't consider it very loving for a supposely loving and omniscientist god to throw someone into hell for using logic and reason with evidence from universe to conclude that the religion and god are myths because the god, knowing everything, would have to full well know about such people when he supposely created the universe.

I consider it much simpler to consider the whole thing a myth created because people didn't know as much back then than we do now.

God doesn't throw people to hell, sin does. Satan is like district attourney and Jesus is like defense attny. It is not psycho or anything He has planned. You see different in big way what I see. I see His point. Very clearly, every thing make sense what God said and planned. There are surrmountable people question that even thru OT times, like Moses, King David, Nehemiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Esther, Debrorah, Samson, Malachi, Jeol, James, Titus, Paul,you name it. There is so much what they have seen, heard, and experience. As of now, Pharoah, pharisees, sadducees, Nebbuchaddnezzar, Moabites, Hittites, you name it, is crying out, listen, don't go where I'm at, bec I'm stubborn, Jesus is THE Way, don't waste another silly questions and futile human theories. Even crying to those people too. Hell suppose to be only for demons and Satan. God doesn't want people to go, but sin stop anyone from entering His holiness. Bec just like Moses has to hide behind the cleft bec he cannot see God's face bec His holiness destroy sin. Isaiah and John thought they are dead, bec God's holiness. We as human can't get a slightest idea what His holiness be like, its beyond any of imagine.

 

[pek1]

and there's constant disagreement over what exactly consistutes a sin. The Baptists think dancing is a sin, some fundamentalists think that women wearing pants is a sin, some think that listening to rock music is a sin and so on........
there's really no conscenous on what God sees as a sin.
MAN wrote the Bible. The Bible says that Man is totally depraved. Man cannot accurately articulate correctly the power that we call God. That's like thinking that someone with profound mental retardation can understand Einstien or other great thinkers.

It's not a sin for any of those except for these: If you park your car too close to the other one or if you have your wheels turned to the left. That is sin, deafdyke. Hey, even having to back up out of a parking spot instead of backing into one is sin, :Ohno: deafdyke . . . weren't you listening in Sunday School?

 

[RedFox]

God doesn't throw people to hell, sin does.

The god is often claimed to be omniscientist, so he knew everything that would happen in the future, including stuff about who would put themselves in hell by sinning. Yet he created the world knowing full well that the creation of the world would result in this. He knew it was going to happen, yet he allowed it to by creating the world. It's like knowing that creating a batch of nitroglycerin and dropping it, knowing full well that it's going to blow up and doing it anyway and blaming it on the nitroglycerin rather than yourself. Omniscience should have shown the god that he was creating a world where lots of people were going to hell, so why did he go ahead with its creation?

Satan is like district attourney and Jesus is like defense attny.

What the district attorney does is bring evidence against the suspect on trial. Satan does not look like a character who is working as part of a court system, but one that broke from the system and acts as a seperate force. Why would Jesus have to defend people against his own father's rules when both Jesus and the father are the same god, who is supposed to know everything? It would make a court moot.

It is not psycho or anything He has planned. You see different in big way what I see. I see His point. Very clearly, every thing make sense what God said and planned.

Yeah, I see religions differently from believers because my view is not clouded by looking at them from the inside through the fliters they impose on their members. The religions tell their members how to see things and that their religion is the only one that makes sense and is the only one that is right so people would stay in the religion to aid in its survivial.

There are surrmountable people question that even thru OT times, like Moses, King David, Nehemiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Esther, Debrorah, Samson, Malachi, Jeol, James, Titus, Paul,you name it. There is so much what they have seen, heard, and experience.

That's no different from other people of other religions listing different people who said that they've seen, heard and experienced a lot of things and saying that it makes them right.

As of now, Pharoah, pharisees, sadducees, Nebbuchaddnezzar, Moabites, Hittites, you name it, is crying out, listen, don't go where I'm at, bec I'm stubborn, Jesus is THE Way, don't waste another silly questions and futile human theories. Even crying to those people too.

Where have you heard those people say those things? Do you have a recording of their cries? Putting down ideas from outside of one's religions as 'silly questions' and 'futile human theories' is a fliter imposed by the religion to keep its members from straying away, no matter how wrong the religion could be in the real world. It also puts down hundreds to thousands of years worth of real investigations into the nature of the world and reality.

Hell suppose to be only for demons and Satan. God doesn't want people to go, but sin stop anyone from entering His holiness. Bec just like Moses has to hide behind the cleft bec he cannot see God's face bec His holiness destroy sin. Isaiah and John thought they are dead, bec God's holiness. We as human can't get a slightest idea what His holiness be like, its beyond any of imagine.

If god made hell for Satan and demons, his omniscience should have told him that others would end up in hell too, so why did he go ahead with creating hell? Or does it mean the god is not omniscientist or does not have full control of things, by not being omnipotent? Being omnipotent means being able to do anything. 'Anything' includes being able to have sinners in front of oneself, so if the god can't have sinners in his presence, he's either not omnipotent or decided to act like that, which would not speak too highly about his goodness.

If you say that nobody can get an idea of what the god is like, how would you really know? How would the writers of the bible really know? Maybe they wrote that in the bible after the god told them to. How would they know if he's telling the truth about himself? And how do you know if the writers were really writting what a god 'inspired' them to write, rather than just writing what they believed or wanted others to believe?

 

[christlovedeaf]

I'm not sure you understand I'm saying. That is, what Moses, Isaiah and John. It called how can I say it better way? Its hard to explain, its human speechless and couldn't explained. Yes God foreknew everything. God is omniscient, but not forceable. Remember, what Jesus said to Judas the night of Last Supper? Jesus said, its better if you(Juas) not been born. Remember, each carried a child. By growing up, we have choices. God is omnipotent, again, not forceable. God is omnipresence, again, not forceable. All I need to do is this, trust Him in all my ways. Not religiously, but relationally.