To My Co-Workers

Hello everyone at Bloomer's! I just signed up to blog so now i'm using it as often as possible! Yay for technology.

hopefully you all know me well enough by now that i can share this with you. so please if you have any questions email me at shrankaplooza@gmail.com or comment.

I have been praying a lot recently [I assume you all know Pop and I are Christians] and i have really been burdened for you guys. outside of church you all are my closest friends and i care about all of you equally. so hopefully you're reading this.

I just wanted to let you all know how and why i'm a Christian. [some of you may have heard this before but please keep reading].

All of you guys are different and probably have what's called "presuppositions". basically you all have your own different views on everything. By observation you all form different opinions on the same subject. this subject is Christianity.

When someone says "Christian," different things pop into each one of your heads. for some it's a Catholic relative, others it's a huge stone cathedral, others it's a church in your neighborhood. What i'm going to ask you to do is really tough: throw away your "presuppositions" concerning Christianity and go into this with a clean slate.

All of you have heard of Jesus Christ. for some He's a swear, others a Savior. For me He's a Savior. The world today is verfy corrupt and immoral. husbands beat their wives. Little girls get raped. No matter how hard that guy tries to, he can't get over his addiction to drugs, alcohol, sex, whatever it may be. No one's perfect in our world, i think we all can agree. everyone has done something bad. from cheating on your husband to cheating on a test, we all have done wrong in some way, shape, or form.

Now apply that knowledge to the "eternal". Is heaven real? Is hell real? What happens when i die?

I assure you heaven and hell are very real places. one is the epitome of happiness, the other is the depths of pain and sorrow. Common sense says hell is bad, and heaven is good. so how do we get to heaven.

Christianity is different than Catholicism, Buddhism, Islam, and every other religion in the world. in all of those religions you have to work your butt off to get to where God is in heaven. God is a perfect, loving judge. in order to get to where He is, you have to be perfect. Stink! we just said that no one is perfect. this presents a problem: how can we get to God if we're not perfect?

Remember Jesus from earlier? this is where He comes in. Jesus is God the Son. There are three parts to God: the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. [we're not going to get into that now, though]. God the Father knows we are imperfect, but also longs for us to be with Him in heaven. So He sends His son, Jesus, as a sacrifice for all that we've done wrong. because of our wrong [sin] when we die we will go to hell forever. No good. but because Jesus died [brutally], was buried in a tomb, then rose from the dead [because He was God], if we believe in those facts we will be saved from hell to heaven. God will no longer look at you as sinful, but as one of His children. He loves you!!!

The Bible [God's love letter to man] says "if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord [master of your life] and believe in your heart he rose from the dead, you will be saved."

it's that easy!

Thanks for reading for such a long time. If you believe what i told you, send me and email or comment, or let me know at work.

love you guys!!!!