melog-20101122.log.0

an old friend called me today just before i left work. i haven't talked to him in years. he's a good guy, but he's hard to talk with on the phone. he starts talking and won't let you get a word in edgewise.

but, he'll bend over backwards to help you out when your in a jam. and he's a much better listener when talking face to face.

when i first knew him, i was really gun-ho in the pentecostal movement. i got him into it. after i was saved, i convinced him that i have found the truth. he was going down the nation of islam track in that time of his life.

i've long since left church altogether, but he's still knee deep in the moment. sometimes i feel like i owe it to him to tell him i don't believe in the apostolic doctrine any longer. but, then, he would probably rat me out if i told him. he's really chummy with my mother-in-law, who is a pentecostal minister at the church we all used to attend.

he never mentioned church until just before hanging up. he asked me if we visited the local pentecostal church in the suburb we've moved to. he figures that since we don't go to our "home" church any more, that perhaps we go to the church closer to our new home (we moved about two years ago to where we are currently).

i told him that we hadn't, but had thought about it (no, not really).

i suppose he went to that all night, shut in prayer service, too, like my mother-in-law. i suppose they now have a renewed sense for wanting to win souls and figure out why their loved ones won't return to god. when i was caught up in the movement, i spent a lot of time praying about those same things. i bet that's what they're doing, too. they think if they pray harder, fast longer, and give up more then god will touch our hearts and make us come back to "the fold". that's why i think they both asked me about church around the same time.

there most certainly would have to be a pentecostal god for that to happen, now that i've come to evaluate god and religion in a totally different light.

well, gotta pick up the kids from my mom's house. probably had better clean up, do a little laundry, and find something for dinner tonight cause the missus is working late tonight.

*sarcasm* yea. i'm a single dad tonight. */sarcasm*