Jesus and the Angry Young Man
The year was 1979. I was a young USAF airman stationed at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota. I was also a Christian. Late one morning I, along with some close Christian friends, had just left church. As I was riding along in the back seat of their well-used station-wagon, heading down a narrow street in a rundown subdivision, I noticed a few young men, late teens, or they could have been in their early 20's like me - they were in the middle of this narrow street throwing a football back and forth. As they saw us slowly approaching they moved to one side to let us pass. As we passed them one held up a hand, extended his middle finger, and from just a couple feet from the car, looking right at us with a very angry expression on his face, he very loudly yelled: "FUCK CHRIST" ! There were seven of us in this station-wagon, Christians every one, from about age 17 to 50. I don't think any of us said anything to each other, but we all heard what he said, a...