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In 1991, I had a Keith Greene T-shirt: No Compromise. I had been going to this Bible study for maybe a year. I thought of wearing the shirt, but then thought, what am I going to be, Joe Christian? But I wore it. That night a sister brought a tape with the vocals missing so that she could sing along. the song? No Compromise. Tonight, near the end of November, I drove past the COBU cafe. It was about 9:45 and there were a lot of bros and sis and interesteds inside. Sitting alone at the table outside was Stewart. No, it's Howie Layton. I stop and want to encourage him so I yell "Jesus loves you!" and he looks up and waves to the car behind me, that was really alongside him, as I had already driven past. I was going home. I wasn't feeling well. But my nephew had laughed after I tried to encourage Howie. Did he think it was mocking? I hope not. I decide not to head home just yet, and this time get out of the car and walk up to Howie. If he's being rejected and despondent, I'd hate to see someone leave there and think that's the same as leaving Jesus, because nothing could be further from the truth. But when I finally make it around the blocks and through the traffic, he has been joined by another brother, perhaps of the same standing. Sorry that they are not accounted worthy to be in "Christian fellowship". I'm only guessing... So we get on I-95 and what do we see? One of my Dad's busses. He only has two - but there's one of them! Coincidence? And finally, the coupe de grace: I work with a fellow named Santiago. He wears a cap that says "Brooklyn" on it. Here we are working in Philly. I finally ask him one night, "Just what do you know about Brooklyn?" "I'm from there". And we talk. One night he calls me "Uncle Tom" and then apologizes profusely. I don't really get it - I don't understand, it's one of their things. But I tell him, when I was in Brooklyn back in '89 a sister was introducing her daughter to me and called me "Uncle Tom" and she apologized profusely also. Well what happens two days later? There she is with a couple Stewart sisters and Bob M. I was going to keep walking but then we started to say "Hi" to each other. The Steawrt sisters simultaneously wave their arms in a programmed reaction and say, "Oh, we don't have time to talk, we just want to talk about Jesus..." But I tell the sister, and I am a little surprised to be telling her this - I was just thinking about you! No, really! And I told her the story about Santiago and all. She seemed a little surprised too. So did Bob who said nothing, but you could see it in his eyes. You could see the Stewart sisters saw their programmed response didn't really fit with the program. And with the story done and over with, we both went our separate ways. The the sister yelled back to me, "She's grown now." "Good!" I replied. Coincidence? You be the judge...

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