Wisdom when you need it.

Here are two funny stories that was shared by Pastor Prince last Sunday. The message was about wisdom and these examples are taken from his life of when God helped him by giving him wisdom.

The 1st story:
When the church was still small and was having meetings in the then YWCA building (now YMCA), there was an incident where a gangster was out to make trouble for the church. Pastor was an elder then and the senior pastor at that time was away.

Now, the girlfriend of a gangster became a Christian at the church and because of that, she did not hang out with her gangster boyfriend often. She did not do most of the things that they used to do and that made the boyfriend very upset.

The boyfriend called up the church one evening when there was a meeting being held and said, "I'm coming over now." (or something like that)

Being the only elder at that time, Pastor Prince had to meet with the guy. As he was going down the staircase, the man was also going up. Now, a staircase is a very enclosed area with not much place to run. When Pastor met the guy in the staircase he knew he was possibly in a dangerous situation. The man was really heavily built and had protuding muscles - this was a true-blue gangster.

The man saw Pastor Prince and started to voice out his complaints. With his left hand forming a threatening fist, he said, "You people ah, What have you been telling my girlfriend. Blah, blah, blah." As this was going on Pastor in his prayed silently, "God, help!"

Suddenly an image of a bollywood star came to his mind. He used to watch bollywood movies with his mother as a child and the image of one particular star just came up to mind. He realized that the gangster resembled the star and Pastor pointed it out.

"Has anyone ever told you that you look like _____?"

Suddenly the gangster stopped his incessant complaining and began to smile. He became more relaxed an replied, "Really? My friends oso tell me that." He calmed down now and said, "Actually ah, I'm not the type to make trouble in churches. It's just ah, I feel sad you know..."

And they talked it over a cup of coffee at the coffee-shop. Pastor Prince added that he was the gangster's gang sitting at the coffee-shop and they were also big men. At this he joked that actually, there was no need for the gangster to bring his gang because none of his leaders would help him if there was trouble.

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to be continued...