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THE FIVE RINGS

I am sure you will read the headline and automatically know what the 'five rings' are. But can you tell me their colours?

Yes, the world has stopped - or at least significantly slowed down - for the fortnight of the Olympic Games. Even our web site has noticed the effects, with visitor numbers down 15% this week! Not only can I not compete on the sporting field (only age, of course!) but can't provide a spectacle to match this four year extravaganza of sporting endeavour. So will just have to join the multitudes and watch too!

While the games are a feast of sporting excellence of the highest level, the main impression left with me, is the unity amongst both athletes and spectators. Of course it is competitive, both on the field and in the stands, but for these two weeks people have put aside that which divides in order to embrace the Olympic ideal. Seeing the North and South Koreans marching in the one team, given their history, is amazing. And powerful!

So, what about the church? Where is our focus? Where is our unity? Surely Jesus is greater than even 10,500 athletes. Even less, once the drug cheats are removed! If our focus were truly on Him, surely the divisions in the church would lessen? So let us put aside our differences and focus our attention fully on Him and His commands.

Then, and only then, will He be able to return for His 'one' bride as He has promised to do. The date and time of His return is in our hands!

Now, how about competing in the high jump in a long wedding dress!

And - about those rings?

According to most accounts, the rings were adopted by Baron Pierre de Coubertin (founder of the modern Olympic Movement) in 1913 after he saw a similar design on an artifact from ancient Greece. The five rings represent the five major regions of the world: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Every national flag in the world includes at least one of the five colors, which are (from left to right) blue, yellow, black, green, and red. It is important to emphasize that Pierre de Coubertin never said nor wrote that the colors of the rings were linked with the different continents.

PS: New Zealand, thanks to the ladies in rowing and cycling, won our first two gold medals of these games over the weekend. Keeps up New Zealand's reputation (along with Australia) of being at the top of the medals won per head of population, for we have only 4 million people living here. Quality, not quantity!

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FROM THE WORD

"We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ “Then I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ ”‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied. "Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen of me and what I will show you. I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’" (Acts 26:14-18)

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart." (Hebrews 12:1-3)

"The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it." (1 Corinthians 12:21-26)

DAVID'S DOODLINGS

UNITY

213. United we stand, divided... God will wait upon another generation.

401. Unity in Christ is so close to God's heart but so far away from ours!

402. Why do we keep asking God for more strength, when He has already given us the answer - unity!

403. We keep looking for the unity of one world government to arise in the nations, but constantly fail to seek it in the church.

404. The Godhead is the ultimate example of how a many faceted Church is to become united as one.

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FROM YOU - TO ME - TO YOU

Hi David,
"I just want to 'play ball' with God!"
Do you remember when you were a kid and the fellow who owned the bat and ball got to set the rules. You had to keep him happy or he would take his bat and ball and go home. I guess if we are going to play ball with God, He gets to set the rules.

Aside from my bad attempt at humor, I feel sad for these young folk being expelled from church. Fortunately, they can't be expelled form the body of Christ.

God Bless,
Don Spooner

To Murray C, via David,
Thanks to the All Blacks for giving us such a great game. Sorry you lost.
Love from South Africa!!
Melodie W.

(For those who don't understand, there is huge sporting rivalry between New Zealand, South Africa and Australia in the game of Rugby Union going back nearly 100 years. New Zealand (the All Blacks) suffered a 'rare' loss to South Africa last week!)

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This is an opportunity for you to express your views, which may not be my views. But none of us have a mortgage on all the truth - except for Jesus!

LAUGHING AT OURSELVES

***Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused***

*** "Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others." ***

294. REAL LETTERS THAT CHILDREN SENT TO GOD
Dear GOD,
Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much if they had their own rooms. It works with my brother.
-Larry
Dear GOD,
bet it is very hard for You to love all of everybody in the whole world. There are only 4 people in our family and I can never do it.
-Nan
Dear GOD,
Is it true my father won't get in Heaven if he uses his bowling words in the house?
-Anita
Dear GOD,
Did You mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident?
-Norma
Dear GOD,
I went to this wedding and they kissed right in church. Is that okay?
-Neil
Dear GOD,
What does it mean You are a Jealous God? I thought You had everything.
-Jane
Dear GOD,
Did You really mean "do unto others as they do unto you"? Because if You did, then I'm going to fix my brother.
-Darla
Dear GOD,
Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.
-Joyce
Dear GOD,
It rained for our whole vacation and is my father mad! He said some things about You that people are not supposed to say, but I hope You will not hurt him anyway.
-Your friend, (But I am not going to tell You who I am)
Dear GOD,
Please send me a pony. I never asked for anything before. You can look it up.
-Bruce
Dear GOD,
If we come back as something - Please don't let me be Jennifer Horton because I hate her.
-Denise
Dear GOD,
I want to be just like my Daddy when I get big but not with so much hair all over.
-Sam
Dear GOD,
I didn't think orange went with purple until I saw the sunset You made on Tuesday. That was cool.

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FACTS FOR FUN

LAST WEEKS QUESTION: Do all animals have belly buttons or only humans?

ANSWER: Nearly all MAMMALS have belly buttons, though many don't look the same as ours do. Sometimes, they're simply a long scar, covered with fur. Most mammals, like us, have belly buttons because they had umbilical cords to provide nourishment while in their mother's womb. There are exceptions to the rule: the duckbill platypus and the echidna don't. Both Australian mammals are born in eggs.

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION: Was Cleopatra an Egyptian?

Answer Next Week.

SOME FUN FACTS
756. ALL RICE!
There are more than 15,000 different varieties of rice in the world today. (Can anyone identify them all?)

757. IT'S ONLY FAIR, AFTER ALL
The California Board of Equalization has ruled that bartenders cannot be held responsible for misjudging the age of midgets. (A ‘small’ problem solved by yet another layer of bureaucracy.)

758. HORSE SENSE - ITIVITY
Sidewalk acrobatics that might frighten horses are outlawed in Denver, Colorado. (Best not to be caught ‘horsing around’.)

A WORD PUZZLE FOR YOU
Make another word from this word using all the letters.

GREENS

Answer at the end of A David Musing

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NOT SURE I WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN ANY MORE!

This poem was written after becoming saddened, almost disillusioned, by the disagreements and arguments I have been witnessing on an internet forum I belong to, between supposedly 'mature' Christians, mainly ministers, who are meant to working together towards unity! How God must cry! I do!

Incidentally, we have had severe winds and floods (again) in New Zealand over the past few days. God's tears? Maybe increased floods aren't a result of global warming after all! But of the divisions in His church!

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REAL LIFE HUMO(U)R IS THE BEST!

PLAYING HOUSE
Two little children, a boy and a girl, walked hand-in-hand to a neighbor's house. The little girl stood on her tiptoes and just able to reach the doorbell. Then, an elderly lady greeted them at the front door.

"Good morning, children," she said. "What can I do for you?"

"We're playing house," the little girl answered. "This is my husband and I'm his wife. Can we come in?" Thoroughly enchanted by the scene, the elderly lady replied, "By all means, do come in."

Once inside, she offered the children lemonade and cookies, which they graciously accepted. When a second tall glass of lemonade was offered, the little girl politely declined. "No thank you," she said. "We have to go now. My husband just wet his pants."

DETAILED DESCRIPTION
On duty as a customer-service rep for a car-rental company, I took a call from a driver who needed a tow. He was stranded on a busy highway, but he didn't know the make of the car he was driving. I asked again for a more detailed description beyond "a nice blue four-door."

After a long pause, the driver replied, "My car is the one on fire."

OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT PROPERTY
The day I immigrated to the United States, I was given an alien ID card that featured a cute photo of me at 15. Years later, when I went to the courthouse to become a
citizen, a clerk confiscated my card.

"What will you do with it?" my wife asked.

"We burn it," was the reply.

"Could you please cut the photo off and let us keep it?" asked my wife.

"Certainly not!" said the clerk. "This card is official government property. As such it cannot be mutilated before it is destroyed."

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INTERESTING WORDS AND PHRASES FROM THE BIBLE

EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY

A cautionary story from Luke 12 about a rich fool who thought his life was set up for good. Of course, his life expectancy didn't meet his expectations, dying that very night! Many today make the same mistake!

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MILESTONE DATES IN THE GROWTH OF TRUE CHRISTIANITY

At the dates indicated, a comparison of
1) the number of Bible–believing Christians and
2) the total number of people in the world:

It took 1430 years for Bible-believing Christians to become just one percent of world population
By AD 1430, (1%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 99 after 1430 years)
By AD 1790, (2%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 49 after 360 years)
By AD 1940, (3%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 32 after 150 years)
By AD 1960, (4%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 24 after 20 years)
By AD 1970, (5%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 19 after 10 years)
By AD 1980, (6%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 16 after 10 years)
By AD 1983, (7%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 13 after 3 years)
By AD 1986, (8%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 11 after 3 years)
By AD 1989, (9%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 10 after 3 years)
By AD 1993, (10%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 9 after 4 years)
By AD 1997, (11%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 8 after 4 years)

THE LATEST PICTURE
Today, 645 million or (11%) of the world population are Evangelicals or Bible believing Christians.
Of the world’s 24,000 “Unimax” People Groups, 10,000 (having 2.1 billion persons) are still considered Unreached---though Christian work is being done among most. A unimax people is the maximum sized group sufficiently unified to be reached by a single, indigenous church planting movement.

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A DAVID MUSING

THE ACHE WEEK
Do you sometimes have a week of aches?
It's so sad, but "them's the breaks"!
Of course, a week when there's so much to do,
But you'd rather go to bed - or even spew!

As I take the pain killer from the packet,
A man who usually says, "I can hack it!"
For toothache has got the better of me,
So tomorrow, the dentist, I must see.

Put it off as long as I could,
Yes, go away, was sure it would!
For a normal man, I am you see!
Until the pain sent me up a tree.

So that is my simple tale of woe,
For to the dentist I wouldn't go,
It's not the dentist that I do fear,
But the hole in the wallet - oh dear!

Now, the pain wins over the pocket,
Tomorrow, be off like a rocket.
All because I was too proud,
To admit my misery, out aloud.

Remember me, my loving friend,
As to him, my way I wend,
The nightmare will then quickly end,
Except for the money I had to spend!

MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOU BLESS GOD.

His servant and yours

David Tait

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WALKING WITH JESUS MINISTRIES is a non-profit, non-denominational, Bible based ministry located in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand. A ministry dedicated to developing discipleship, fostering unity amongst God’s people to achieve the Great Commission, and in doing so, preparing for Christ’s return. It is securely based upon the foundational principles of the Apostles Creed while recognising the wide and rich diversity of beliefs amongst Christians in other areas. In accordance with the Lord’s direction, materials produced by the ministry are available, free of charge, to genuine enquirers upon request. The ministry is solely funded by donations, as the Lord provides. A list of materials available (plus some fun!) is obtainable and freely downloadable from our website
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Our role is to bless and encourage those in ministry while promoting co-operation and unity of direction amongst the body of Christ, as emphasised 3 times by Jesus in His longest prayer, immediately prior to His arrest and crucifixion. "… so that they may be one as we are one." (John 17:12, 21, 23-4) Our website is currently being developed to encourage your participation one with another, to share resources, and to enable you to promote events and items of interest to the body as a whole – and have a smile while doing it!

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