Parable 92 - Parables of Steel by Robert Dean Steel

   The pastor of a northern church was walking behind his building when he met a local street person.  Andy was a small man, kindly and friendly.  Alcohol had reduced him to a shadow of his former self.  He once had a family and a business but a personal tragedy began a spiral of alcohol and addiction.  That day the pastor spoke kindly to Andy about Christ and invited him to church.  Andy came to church the following day and continued to come for over a year.  He enjoyed the music, the preaching and the people of the church were friendly and loving toward him.  Andy however could not fully conquer his addictions.  One day while in a drunken stupor Andy picked a fight with the wrong man.  Andy was tragically knifed.  He was found dead the following morning.  We can be loved, have a form of truth but Jesus must have all of us or we will never truly be free sometimes with tragic results.