Wesley R. Elsberry
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Joined: May 2002
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I've said before that I've been privileged to watch one of these self-denigrating performances where I actually knew the fellow in his pre-"saved" condition.
He attended my elementary school.
He attended my church.
We spent plenty of our spare time together playing in the neighborhood.
There certainly weren't drugs or "bad influences" that I had noticed. I don't think that I was a "bad influence" for him, either.
There was only about a year in between when I last saw him and he showed up giving a presentation on how much better he was doing in his new life than in his wicked old life.
This made me re-evaluate the rest of the confessional tales I had been told, and treat new ones with skepticism.
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"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker
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