Wednesday, September 24, 2003 ·

Went to watch 'Pirates of the Carribean' with the cell (Pat, Gloria & Gan). Jolene came also. Its a nice show. Maybe a little overrated but still nice. Johnny Depp is so talented it hurts... Haha. The movie ended at 11:10pm... Manage to bump into Nathan while walking to the busstop and we got a lift from him home. Talked to Pat again. Again i hear the phrase, 'You still have a long way to go'. How long, how long?

Been thinking more about people's character and how this affects Christians. For example, to one person(A), Christians shouldn't go clubbing. But to another(B), clubbing may be completely fine. So who is right and who is wrong?
Is A right? If he says that when you spend time with God, you'll desire less of the things in the world. Thats true, but wouldn't that make you a dreadfully dull person who wouldn't be able to relate to people who are 'of the world'?
Or is B right? Subjecting himself to temptations? Or being the salt and light of the world with people he knows and having fun at the same time? So many things to consider... How is it possible to judge a man by his actions?

Should A be more open to the 21st century or should B stop going so as not to become a 'stumbling block'? Where is the line drawn? Who draws it? And then here we move into legalism... No clubbing on saturday nights. Women shall not wear skirts or low cut outfits. All forms of jewellery shall be thrown away. You must spend no less than an hour reading the bible everyday.
Its all very confusing...


1 Corinthians 10
v23"Everything is permissible"--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible"--but not everything is constructive.
v24Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others.
v31So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
v32Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God--
v33even as I try to please everybody in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.


Read this in the papers yesterday... Interesting...

KANGAROO SAVES MAN

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MELBOURNE - A kangaroo saved a farmer's life by alerting his family that he was lying unconscious in a field, ambulance workers said yesterday.

The kangaroo began banging on the door of the family home in Morwell, eastern Victoria, during weekend storms in the area, Rural Ambulance Victoria paramedic Eddie Wright told a Melbourne radio station.

Mr Leonard Richards, 52, had been checking his property for storm damage, when he was hit on the head by a falling branch on Sunday morning, about 200m from the house. He was knocked unconscious and could have died had he not been found so quickly, the paramedic said.

"The kangaroo alerted them to where he was and went and sat down next to him and that's how they found him," he said. "The farmer's wife followed the kangaroo because he was acting out of character."

The kangaroo was wild, Mr Wright said, but had been adopted by the family around a decade ago because it was blind in one eye. It's about 10 years old and thinks it is a dog, he said. "It's not a pet as such, it's just an animal that's adopted them over the years and comes and goes as it pleases, they were lucky yesterday it was in the area."

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