Hi Phil,
Great post.
Vinny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 4:23 PM
Subject: Cut It Short


>I went and got my hair cut today.  Louie is nearly 70 years of age, or
>maybe
> he is by now, but you'd never know it.  Today he told me how he became a
> Christian.  He said somebody must have started praying for him because,
> all
> of the sudden, preachers and pastors and priests started coming in for
> hair
> cuts.  Most of them began witnessing to him and most of those that did,
> told
> him that he was on his way to hell.  None of them made it passed first
> base
> until a man came in one day and as Louie was cutting his hair, asked him
> why
> he didn't give up his sinful life style and become a Christian.  Louie
> said,
> "Why should I?  I have it made.  Every night I play in bars with my
> friends.
> I work 45 minutes and then get a 15 minute break every hour I am working.
> I
> get to play my guitar.  I enjoy singing.  I get to drink on the job.  I
> get
> paid good money just to have fun.  Why give all that up?"  The man
> encouraged him to go to church anyway because he didn't have to give up
> anything.  Louie was surprised.  He thought, because his grandmother had
> taken him to church almost every day of his life, sort of speak, that you
> had to give up everything for Jesus.  So, Louie told me that he started
> looking for a church.  Nearly all the churches he visited, he found people
> who he felt were no better than the people in the bars.  So, he decided he
> must be going to the wrong churches.  He decided to find a church like the
> one his grandmother used to always take him to and so he did.  Soon he
> heard
> the Gospel and came to know Christ; making Him the Lord and Savior of his
> life.  It wasn't long thereafter that the bars didn't seem right so he
> turned all that over to the Lord.  His barbershop, at that time, simply
> would not financially survive, he told me, without all the money he was
> making playing the bars.  Soon the barbershop grew.  Now he plays on the
> worship team in his church.  You couldn't pay him enough money to return
> to
> the life of playing in the bars.  He said something very simple to me but,
> oh, so true.  He said, "You should be willing to give up your life for the
> Lord and live for Him since He gave up His life for you."  There it is, in
> a
> nutshell.  If we have no other reason to live Godly, with Christ as our
> Lord
> and Savior, the fact He gave his life for us should be enough.  So how do
> we
> become personally related to Christ as Lord and Savior?  first, look up
> First Corinthians chapter 15 and read the first 4 verses.  That is the
> Gospel you must believe.  Secondly, look up Romans chapter 10 and read
> verses 9 and ten.  That is how you become born again.  How do you then
> live
> this out in your life.  Louie wondered that, too.  He found out by
> becoming
> born again.  The Lord filled in the answers he had about living for
> Christ.
>
> Phil.
>
>
> Where there is pain, there is belief.  Real Truth is painless.
> www.SafePlaceFellowship.com
>