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So you twist my words and end with that?

The Right to Speak is what I’m talking about - not the ‘social justice’ agenda. I’m getting a face full of that from the ELCA right now, and we’re leaving.

I’m talking about the BEGINNING of the conversation about God - the one that leads to Christ.

And the word ‘discernment’. It’s a giant red flag. It’s what anybody wants it to mean.

The job you have AFTER being saved is to bring others to salvation, not sit in judgment over how the others are reading the Book.

Christ isn’t complicated. Christ makes sense. Those that would obfuscate through ‘discernment’ are the ones that better start using their sniffers to see who they might really be working for.

Discernment - Discern this: There are many that have never heard the story of Christ in context. Concentrate on those cats for a while. I know why poor people will give you the shirt off their back while the rich and educated pass you by. To the poor, Christ makes sense. No discernment necessary. Amongst the poor, there is real, active evil.

Let the rich make plans. You want to call that ‘social justice’, go ahead. I call it selling to people who are ready to by something that sells itself. Christ doesn’t want your money. He wants your soul.

Poorest family in my Troop opened his home to another homeless kid. Didn’t have enough money to feed him or his boy, but gave his couch to this boy. I don’t have to put a word like ‘tithe’ on something like that. He has little, and gave what he couldn’t afford to give.

All three of them should know Christ, since they emulate him every day. Earning the right to talk about Christ is the challenge. More so since I am a vile, broken creature, which is why the Holy Spirit gets 100 percent of the credit here, if there is credit to be had at all.

Until you die, neither of you will know if you are right about the Book, and parts there of. You don’t have to discern Christ. 4 witnesses and the writings of a bunch of idolators in Rome is all I need in terms of whether Christ is who He said He was, and whether he can keep His promise.

From there, it is daydreaming about what His Father is like, and what Heaven is like, and about what we will be like when we shed this mortal coil. Will we see our families, and our pets, and we will care about things like the Kennedy assassination and who did it.

Life is hard. I will be happy enough to be dead and in Heaven with God and His Son.

My issue is trying to keep 13 to 17 year olds from committing suicide. That’s my ‘social justice agenda’.

My job is convincing them that God created them for a specific and critical element in His plan for the entire universe. Without him or her, God’s creation is not the same, and there isn’t as much joy in it as there needs to be.

So discern that, because that’s a problem worth solving, and prayer, and fasting. It’s really happening - kids committing suicide. Eagle Scouts with straight A’s committing suicide. It happened three weeks ago.

In the end, its faith. Belief, not fact. You want to argue the ‘angels on the head of a pin’ question, you’ll find an audience I suppose.

Talk to a kid. Failing that, help someone else who can talk to a kid. Suffer them, because they have everything and yet have nothing.

May God’s face shine upon you and boot your ass out of your chair and down to the Boy’s and Girl’s Club to clean toilets and find out what kids are thinking.

May the Holy Spirit fill you with His Words as you tell the Good News to people who have heard it, but not listened.

So much work to be done.