Tap Dancing for Jesus & "All Roads Lead to the Same God" Hmmm?

 Back at Pasadena City College again – it was brilliant, partly because I was able to speak with a guy for like an hour, partly because the campus is just so rad looking, but mainly because Risch decided to tap dance as he was sharing the good word. Its true! Risch was, as always, up there first and was doing a great job just trying to explain to his listeners their need for the Jesus, but all of a sudden he lost track of where he was going and he kind of blanked. He then said “I told myself that if I lost track of where I was going, because I was nervous or whatever, I would tap dance up here” and sure enough our little buddy started clicking his heels like a pig-tailed princess on recital night. It was pretty amazing, but even more than amazing and comical - I think of what was really going on BEYOND the tap dancing and the laughter it brought me, indeed I saw my partner being funny, but what was really happening?  This is what was happening there beneath the dance session, it was a constant reality – this constant reality that it is hard to do what we are doing. It is difficult to get up in front of a crowd of people, its difficult to put yourself up there and make yourself a target, when you have only the best of intentions but people mock you, people get angry with you, and even those who should be on your side (other believers) are right along with the nay sayers just really giving you crap. To be sure, it reminds me of Jesus and his approach and his reception. But yeah, Risch danced not to be funny, not to be weird (although a secret motive was the crowd draw that would and did come in as a result), but was to remind himself that if he is a fool he is a fool for Christ, and he was just that. I love Risch, he is daily dieing to himself – its easy to do Christianity in a pew, or at the coffee shop with our other Christian friends, or reading a book, or abstaining from flipping off someone who cuts you off, or by saying “God bless you” to the bum you just gave your last 3 dollars to…, but it is very difficult to try to go out in the dark places of this country and be a light. It is much easier to just let the world happen to us, but we desire that Jesus, through us, happens to them, and in doing so we have to be fools, but so be it, a fool for Christ was Risch!

            After Risch went, I hopped on up, I botched it real bad. I had about 5 hecklers, and I don’t mind them but these ones were very distracting. So after I went and mumbled a probably incoherent Gospel message I stepped down and commenced to speak with a young man who insisted that there is no one truth, and that all roads lead to god, that all religions are the same, and so on. We spoke at length about the subjects, I felt good in some of the things I shred with him and I trust God will give use to them, but in some areas I didn’t have the best responses.  That’s all for now.