Two Mormons and a Five Year Old Boy

We had just exited the Branch Avenue Metro Rail stop when two Mormon young people engaged us in conversation. Like a magnet quickly adheres to the refrigerator, they stuck to us and began reciting their jargon in what was seeming to be a one-sided conversation. When the conversation began including references to Jesus, I quickly interjected and introduced myself as an Air Force Chaplain and that I was had a pretty good handle on "the Jesus thing." They politely chuckled at my attempt at "religious humor" and appeared somewhat out-of-step because "another religious guy" got their "scripted words" off track. I then proceeded to let them know that even my children had "the Jesus thing" as well. It was at that moment that God appeared on the scene in the form of a five-year-old boy. My son, Tristian, who I thought was distracted by a caterpillar slugging along the sidewalk, decided to chime in on the discussion. What would at first appear to be "out of nowhere" comes the small juvenile voice proclaiming "Jesus is Lord and Savior! He died on the Cross for our sins!" I will assume he picked up that the conversation was about Jesus. Duh! I have to admit that there was no way I could have said that any better. Here I was, a spiritual leader...a pastor...a chaplain...making light on the subject of faith with two Mormon "recruiters" and I am put in my place by my five-year-old son. I was probably blown away just as much as these two finely dressed men in white shirts and ties. My son taught me a lesson that day...a valuable lesson...issues of faith are not for jesting, but professing. I am proud of my son. Never underestimate the investment in the lives of your children to teach them about Jesus Christ and the salvation he offers to us and why we need it...and don't forget to include telling them about the price Jesus paid to make salvation possible in the first place. Proverbs 22:6, "Train up a child in the way they should go; even when they are old, they will not depart from it." Invest in your children...invest not just in their "future" but in their eternity...by doing so, the dividends will be out of this world!