A man was sitting at a traffic light behind another car. The light turned green, but the driver in the first car didn’t go because he was distracted looking at a map. The guy behind him waited a few seconds and then tapped his horn. The first driver still didn’t move, so the guy behind him laid on his horn. By the time the driver in the first car looked up, the light had turned red again. The fellow in the second car was so angry that he started pounding his steering wheel. He rolled down his window and shook his fist at the guy in front of him and yelled, “You stupid jerk! Are you blind? Green means go, you old fool!”

The angry driver didn’t notice a policeman parked next to the intersection. The policeman approached the second car and asked the driver to step out of the vehicle and show him his driver’s license. The guy said, “You can’t arrest me for yelling at that jerk!” The policeman escorted him to the back seat of the police car, and asked him to wait. After a few minutes on his radio, the policeman returned and said, “Okay, you can return to your car.” By this time the guy was really mad. He said, “I know my rights! You can’t arrest me for getting mad. Why did you take me out of my car? You haven’t heard the last of this!”

The policeman said, “I didn’t detain you because you were hollering. I couldn’t help but notice you had a little wooden cross hanging from your mirror and a bumper sticker that said, “Jesus is coming soon.” I assumed this car belonged to a Christian. So when I saw the way you were acting I suspected that you had stolen this car.” Ouch!

Let’s make sure that our actions are consistent with our beliefs, otherwise, we lose our witness for Christ!  Join us this Sunday at FBC Henderson as we continue through Paul’s letter to the Galatians.

“Let love be without hypocrisy.”        Romans 12:9