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Sociology professor Anthony Campolo recalls a deeply moving incident that happened in a Christian junior high camp where he served.

        One of the campers, a boy with spastic paralysis, was the object of heartless ridicule.   When he would ask a question, the boys would deliberately answer in a halting, mimicking way.        

        One night his cabin group chose him to lead the devotions before the entire camp. It was one more effort to have some "fun" at his expense.

         Unashamedly the spastic boy stood up, and in his strained, slurred manner -- each word coming with enormous effort -- he said simple, "Jesus loves me -- and I love Jesus!"

         That was all. Conviction fell upon those junior-highers. Many began to cry. Revival gripped the camp.

        Years afterward, Campolo still meets men in the ministry who came to Christ because of that testimony.

        Some things are right and some things are wrong and as Christians we have to put our stamp of disproval on them.

        And then there is today when to call a sin a sin is described by some as being judgmental. At which time all discussion comes to an immediate close.  Everyone is intimidated and our lives become tattle tale grey...civility at any cost.

        I'm not saying be mean-spirited .  I am saying that if too many no longer have the strength of their convictions then as the old cliché' goes "If we stand for nothing we will be standing for anything."   

        Think what the world would be like if evil or bad or whatever you would call it had never been criticized by either word or deed.  Whatever there were no principles that men had been willing to die for or live for or both.

        In life there are perspectives...they are our aim and if we have no moral bulls eye we will spend our existence missing the target.

        We have our Christ and Christian teachings and while none of us comes close to living as we should it does not mean we must not consistently keep aiming and reaming toward our best.

Is being silent when we should speak up a sin?  Is it?

 

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