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31 May 2024 · Written by Solli Solomon

Unaware roles


Do you know what the difference is between a thief and a policeman?
After all, as children, at least those of my age, they played cops and robbers but apart from chasing or running away, in real life there is a big difference, the thief steals and runs away so as not to be found, the "guard" investigates and chases and then captures. I know that up to this point it may seem banal but behind the simplicities that we no longer take into account there are hidden truths.
Those games played as children were then transformed into the roles assumed by adults, both figurative and real. There are those who have the ability to deceive, those who have the ability to discover.
Most of the time, deception is not intended to harm someone but becomes a way to approach someone in order to propose/offer something.
The one who discovers, on the other hand, is the one who doesn't spend many words in approaching someone but has the ability to get to the bottom of that proposal/offer.



Nooo it's not a way of complicating an article to get to a point but a thought that arises from a reflection on an experience. The experience is having seen several converted people who previously had a history of thieves, drugs, alcohol or any other crime in their lives. This conversion benefited them in life because God took them from their experiences to bring them to the gift of well-being with the possibility of helping others.
Deep down we know that when you entrust your life to God through Christ, humanly, you define yourself as a sheep as if to indicate submission to events but having direction in Christ.
Fin qua è una cosa normale, anche bella ma la mia riflessione non si fermava a questa ma bensì a quanti pastori ho conosciuto durante il mio cammino.



Devo dire che ne ho conosciuti parecchi e di diversa provenienza ma ad oggi la cosa che mi fa più ridere in cuor mio è pensare che questi pastori hanno fatto la fine dei preti. Hanno un ruolo e sono chiusi in un contesto.
Further I think, what is the difference between one and the other? Well I can say none.
So it helps to be part of one context or another because it helps you in your economic, "work" position (and I put it in quotes because it makes me laugh) and also in importance.
Sì posso affermare che non c'è differenza ma oggi mi chiedo come può un prete o un pastore non lavorare e stare a stretto contatto con la vita e di conseguenza evangelizzare o parlare di Cristo se non si è nella vita di tutti i giorni o ancora aspettare che tutti, i nuovi, vengano portati dai fedeli (veri apostoli) per aspettare le lusinghe da questi per poi dispensarli con parole di vita?
I have only met one man of God, so far, who works like a normal person, is called for his sermons, travels around Italy, earns like a miserable state worker, compensates for travel expenses with the few offers that are made to him which pay for petrol and perhaps a few motorway toll booths and is certainly not a celebrated character or one waiting for the flattery of new people or the faithful.



All this to say that if you are a pastor or a priest you are certainly part of a church system, today churches move money and those who have a "watchdog" eye understand that where money moves there is inevitably an interest on the part of someone above these churches who pulls strings. The threads can be interests of a monetary nature (but the money at those levels doesn't count, they count for us who collect them every month) but above all of a human nature. Now, not wanting to go into details, however, I wonder, after this pandemic boom, where the churches all talk about the antichrist and his brand, which church has not allowed the vaccine to its faithful.
Credo di poter rispondere che nessuna chiesa è andata contro un sistema ma semplicemente perché è parte del sistema.
Quindi tu, ladro che rubavi e scappavi che sei stato salvato, hai la capacità di renderti conto che a tua volta sei stato rubato di qualcosa? Tra l'altro sei parte dello stesso sistema che ti ha portato a rubare ed ora ti sta chiedendo di farlo sotto un'altra veste che non ti appartiene.
Spogliatevi preti/pastori e scendete qui tra chi guadagna del sudore della fronte e poi spiegatemi se da questa parte la "conversione" ha un gusto diverso.
Un ladro non è un etichetta ma diventa uno status così come lo è per la "guardia", non è una etichetta ma lo status che sviluppi nella difficoltà quando non sei nessuno e l'unico modo per far fronte alla vita è dare ascolto allo Spirito Santo.
In this case the guard stands in front of the thief and knows that the only thing the thief can do to him is take his life. 
"E non temete coloro che uccidono il corpo, ma non possono uccidere l’anima; temete piuttosto colui che può far perire l’anima e il corpo nella geenna."
Matteo 10.28



✍️ Written by Solli Solomon · 31 May 2024

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