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5 Chapter 1 thru the same training that Suki received over the years. I would like to give you a warning. For this to work It’s time to be honest with them about the realities of for you personally, I must be very blunt, and talk about Christianity. my real stories. This won’t work as a theory book, and besides; we have lots of those already. I fully believe No more double-lives and no more fakin’ it. Life is too important to live that way. Brace yourself, because it is that everyone already has WAY more information than time to make some changes, and it all starts with YOU. they need. You don’t need another study guide on how to live the Christian faith. You need to have your eyes opened to the reality that most Christians are NOT actu- Brace yourself, because ally living all that stuff that they are studying. it is time to make some You need the good ‘ol truth, plain and simple. changes, and it all starts with YOU. 1 Are you worth the bother? God knows each one of us by name and has a perfect If you are a car that is parked in the middle of the park- plan for each of our lives. But then we go and mess ing lot, and you haven’t obeyed the orders you were things up. Then God has to switch to plan B for our given over the last couple of years, I have some bad lives, then plan C and so on. At some point, you can get news for you. I don’t think you will be used by God any to where it doesn’t really matter what you do. time soon. Imagine God managing a group of Christians in a park- Realistically, it seems to me that there are actually ing lot, each of us in our own cars. He has several hun- thousands of Christians all parked together in a group, dreds of cars under his command. He chooses to post studying the Bible together and worshiping God, but one at the entrance of the lot to protect it, one maintains not actually moving their ‘cars’. Worshiping God and a perimeter to strike if needed to defend the lot, another studying His Word is not the same as obeying His or- is out scouting an enemy’s location, and another is post- ders. ed across the city at another parking lot. Then there are The God of the universe actually wants to talk to YOU some cars that are just parked about in the middle of the personally and have a relationship with YOU. He actu- lot. He tries to communicate with them to send them on ally expects you to listen to Him and obey Him. Things a mission, but they do not move. They listen to the radio are not just cut-and-dried, a list of religious rules to fol- and God’s commands coming to them. They say “yes low. Different people get different orders. sir” but they still do not move. If you are in that parked group I hope that by reading They get together in circles and talk about what it would this book you will be motivated to take action on God’s look like if they moved their cars. Then they pray about instructions. Get moving, and do something. For all of God’s protection on their cars, if and when they decide you who are looking to grow and mature in your spiri- to move them. But they remain parked. tual walk, this book has the potential to help you. I hope This may go on for a while, but let’s be realistic. you choose to follow God’s orders, and do what God asks. Pretty soon God is going to quit giving them orders.