Adult Film *Star*

 Just to make myself clear, I have not viewed or watched any of this persons movies. So to say that she is a star, I cannot say. I had no idea who she was until this story came about. All I know is that she is in the 'adult entertainment' business.

So apparently this "actress" had VIP tickets to a Turning Point USA (Student Action Summit) event in Florida. As the story goes, upon arrival at the event she was denied entry because of who she was and what she did for a living. She faced backlash from the Christian organizers for attending the event.

 My question is this. How did they know who she was? How did they know what kind of career she was in? This was a conservative event with Christian organizers. So I ask again. How did they know who she was?

Then my second question is this. Why was she kicked out? From pictures I have seen, she was wearing a conservative outfit. Not showing any skin at all. She wasn't there selling herself or her films. Or even recruiting for the business. She told people that she is a conservative herself. She was happy to be with fellow conservatives. So again I ask. Why was she kicked out? Aren't we as Christians supposed to love everybody, no matter their profession or lifestyle choice. We hate the sin, but love the sinner. Right!

Matthew 7:3 Amplified Bible

3 Why do you look at the [insignificant] speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice and acknowledge the [egregious] log that is in your own eye?

I wonder how many other people there were liars, cheaters, smokers, gamblers, adulterers, watch pornography, etc. etc. I wonder how many LGBTQ people were in attendance. If we look at it that way, they should have all been kicked out.

Romans 3:23 New Living Translation

23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.

Don't get me wrong. I am not advocating for this woman or her career choice. What I am advocating for is her right to be there along with everyone else. 

John 8:7 English Standard Version

7 And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”

I have read other stories about this event happening and the author says that you cannot be a conservative and be in the adult entertainment business. That may be true but, to me you can't be a conservative and deny people just because of what they do for a living. The organizers were worried about her being there because there were kids there as young as 15. I get that, I really do. But how many families have gone out to dinner and the parents have a drink or two and then drive home. What is that showing their children? It's okay to drink and drive. Or the other things that families do while together. To me this whole situation is very hypocritical!

If we are to follow Jesus' standard of accepting people, He accepted everyone. Tax collectors, adulterers, criminals, everyone. We are not to judge. Jesus is the judge, over everyone.

Matthew 7:1 Amplified Bible

7 “Do not judge and criticize and condemn [others unfairly with an attitude of self-righteous superiority as though assuming the office of a judge], so that you will not be judged [unfairly].

I know that this might not be the popular opinion amongst my friends, but it is my thought on this whole thing.

God bless!

Bowling. The Game of Life??

My family and I went bowling last weekend. It was the first time in a very long time that we had done that together. We had a ton of fun. While the game went on and the frames went by, I kept watching the ball being thrown down the lane, the pins being knocked over, the machine that would pick up the pins and set them back in order and the ball being returned to throw again. It started me thinking about life. The ball represented life. The pins were people, the pinsetter was God and the frames were the days of our life.

You see, the bowler would throw the ball (life) down the lane towards the pins (people). Sometimes the ball would knock over a pin, several pins or even all of them. Then the pinsetter (God) would come down and set all the pins back in place again. Then we would move onto the next frame (day of life). Then the whole cycle would start over again.

Isn't this just like real life? Some days we get knocked down a little, then God picks us back up and puts us back in place. Sometimes life hits us all at once, and just like a strike in bowling we are knocked down completely. God is still there to pick us up and set us back in place. Day after day, just like a frame in bowling.

Lamentations 3:23 New Living Translation 

23 Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning.

So just like moving into the next frame, God moves us into the next day. Just like the next frame we try to bowl a little better, so it is with the next day. We try to live a little better, be a better person.

Remember while bowling how excited you were if you threw a strike or picked up a spare? Or even got excited if you didn't throw a gutter ball. That's how it should be with the day that God has given us.

Psalm 118:24 New Living Translation

24 This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.

So let's live our days (frames) the best that we can. Strive to do better no matter what life (ball) throws at you. We have a God (pinsetter) in heaven who loves us and will pick us up and set us in place again.