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An Agnostic friend recently told me, “If I was raised in the Church of Jack and the Beanstalk, I’d believe that just like anyone believes their religion from Childhood. What’s a REAL reason for me to convert to Christianity?” His point is right-dead on target.

The beliefs of Christianity are true, so why do parents and clergy raise children in Christianity with indoctrination methods that cultivate parroting without understanding? A ruler tells his people not to question a teaching when he KNOWS that his teaching is false. Why use “believe a lie” method to ostensibly rear young Christians in “truth”!?

This behavior raises scary quesitons.. Do the parents and pastors only claim to follow Jesus to mask their own doubt? Do the parents and pastors think that Jesus is a lie? Are they simply too lazy to give good answers to tough questions?

If people don’t have understanding, they can’t explain something in a way that makes sense.

The WiFi version consisted of a long list of numbers ending with “b” while the new version ended with “n” which translated into: I need a new thousand-dollar laptop so it can work with the $150 “new” router. A few years ago Microsoft had a similar problem: people preferred the older XP version of Windows since Vista, practically speaking, seemed to be a step backwards. Even now, China manufactures new technology, yet prefers to buy old, tried and true hardware. Is the “never ending growth” of technology a myth? The crashed Tech Stock fad at the turn of the millennium seemed to say so.

Let's take your favorite hand held doojimahickie.. the little stick you use to write with is called a “stylus”. The last time Humanity used a stylus to write with was when we kept records by carving words into a shallow box of mud. Resorting to the mud box stylus wasn't enough for Apple, however.

“Come follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” That’s what the coffee shop poster read. We’ve all heard it, but something struck me as I sipped my latte. Jesus’ disciples fished with a net, not bait and hook. The fish came in by the net-breaking, boat-sinking loads—that is, when Jesus was giving the instructions—and the fish didn’t have an option.

Do our ministries fish the same way Jesus instructed or have we dropped the powerful nets and switched to bait and hook? In Acts 1:4, Jesus ordered His disciples to WAIT until they received power. What changed since then?

Jesus’ disciples were different ages, some even in their early teens, yet He always instructed them at the same level. Ministry today, however, is often segregated by age. Adults get more “in-depth” teaching while children are reminded weekly about Bible stories and the same basic truths, though the children may have been Christians longer than some adults who lead them.

Anymore in America, when you approach someone with a common-sense business proposition they’ll act like you were attempting a mugging. We can’t blame them. America has spent so much time “educating” itself with classroom theory that we don’t recognize a true business deal when it bites us in the face. Companies think “business” means a tsunami of junk mail and telemarketers. Those methods only pay-off because the majority of Americans can’t recognize business from bolshevik.

In Hong Kong, if you asked almost any person on the street if they were interested in business they’d be curious what you were thinking. Reflecting the long-forgotten entrepreneurship of 1900 New York, the new Asia knows that business deals must be “felt” out through relationships, not calculated with a linear programming chart. One subway ad reads, “Our way of financial background checking: A shared cup of coffee.”

We praise the success of Microsoft and Apple in their ability to see the potential in the mouse auctioned-off by XEROX.