The saga of the bikes

My new bike!!!!

The saga all started about 2 weeks ago when a car pulled out in front of one of my friends when they were riding my motorcycle. (He only had a broken thumb). The headlight and turn signal were broken on it so I went to the Harley Dealership to get a new headlight. To make a long story short I had been looking at buying a new buell in about 2 months, but I went in for a headlight and came out with a new bike (a really good deal).

Alot has gone on since the last time I wrote. We took the body off my Wagoneer to get ready to shorten the frame and put the cherokee body on it. Eventually I would like to make it so I can switch a cherokee body with a roof and one without off and on in about 30 minutes. During this whole time I have been debating the role of the church in alienating many non-christians. Sometimes it feels like an elite club where entry into the church itself is barred to those who do not conform to the churchs standards, not neccessarily moral standards but standards of dress, culture, and the like. I guess it would be moral standards to. How many people who struggle with homosexuality feel alienated by the church because there sin is considered by so many to be so much more taboo then many of the other sins. Even if people do not consider it worse in there mind. Even people of a more liberal mindset in politics can feel ostracized because there views do not tow to the party line of churches. I'll admit that there have been different small groups I have been involved with where I felt like I would be alienated if I shared some of my views on the environment and big business.

I think the church should keep poltics out of its sancutuary and focus on winning people to christ. They should trust that the Lord will lead people who come to know him in the right direction and not feel that they need to control what people think. A liberal exchange of ideas that allows beliefs to be challenged will cause people to think and either become stronger in their beliefs or realize they are not correct. I really like the church I go to right now because the pastor will bring in people to speak who have very different views from the mainstream church. I have agreed with alot of what they have said but some things I don't. It makes me rexamine my beliefs and question why I have those beliefs and come up with cold hard facts for most of my beliefs.

Springs is here. It was such a nice day to ride.


Bike after hitting car (surpirisingly will cost alot to fix according to estimate)