Bibles, Fighters, and Lasers

My boys have always enjoyed imagining what they're gonna do with their lives. They've planned their academic careers by planning to attend the same college. They've planned to live in a camper and be poor while digging for dinaosaur bones for D.K. They've planned to go to Africa and hunt wild animals. The other night they announced their plans to play college basketball. So, they're newest pursuit for their future shouldn't have suprised me, but it was hilarious.

Yesterday in the car, Prophet was reading his Bible when he asked me if there were any cities in America where it was against the law to read your Bible. I said, "No, as long as your in America you can always read your Bible." He was content for a minute and then asked where it was against the law, apparently having heard this somewhere. Off the top of my head, I told him China was one of the places where you weren't allowed to be a Christian or read your Bible. He asked "Well, what if you want to be a Christian and tell people about Jesus there." I said "Well, you have to decide if Jesus is worth going to jail for."

At this point D.K. pipes in and says "Well, I'm not going to jail," I took this to mean that he wouldn't be sharing his faith with another living soul if it meant a jail sentence, but then he said... "it's a good thing I'm a good fighter, I've been practicing, I can run real fast and get away from them before they can put me in jail."

So, the rest of the drive to Mom and Dad's house was spent listening to the boys figure out how they would escape from jail after they had told everyone in China about Jesus. They have decided that they are going to invent a very small laser to carry with them so they can cut thru the cell bars, escape, and then tell everyone about Jesus again. Inkling says we should probably tell them about the strip search they'll have to endure and that their laser will probably be discovered then... maybe we should tell them, it could make for some great entertainment.