• This one should keep us all thinking...
    This is a true story that happened just a few years ago at USC.
    There was a professor of philosophy there who was a deeply committed athiest. His primary goal for one required class was to spend the entire semester that God couldn't exist.....
    His students were always afraid to argue with him because of his impeccable logic. Sure, some had argued in class at times, but no one had never really gone against him because of his reputation.....
    At the end of every semester on the last day, he would say this to his class of 300 students....... "If there is anyone here who still believes in Jesus, stand up!" In twenty years, no one had ever stood up.......
    They knew what he was going to do next.....
    He would say... "Because anyone who believes in God is a fool."
    "If God existed, he stop stop this peice of chalk from hitting the ground and breaking. Such a simple task to prove that He is God, and yet, he can't do it."
    And every year, he would drop the chalk onto the tile floor of the classroom...
    And it would shatter into a hundred pieces........
    All the students would do nothing but stop and stare...
    Most of the students thought that God couldn't exist. Certainly, a number a Christians had slipped through, but for 20 years, they had been to afraid to stand up. Well, a few years ago there had been a freshmen who happened to enroll. He was a Christian, and had heard the stories about his professor.
    He was required to take the class for the major, and he was afraid...
    But for three months that semester, he prayed every morning.
    That he would have the courage to stand up no matter what the professor said, or what the class thought. Nothing they said could ever shatter his faith... He hoped. Finally, the day came.....
    The professor said, "If there is anyone here who still believes in God, stand up!" The professor and the class of 300 people looked at him, shocked, as he stood up in the back of the classroom......
    The professor shouted "YOU FOOL!. If God existed, He would keep this piece of chalk from breaking when it hit the ground!"
    He proceeded to drop the chalk.......
    But as he did, it slipped out of his fingers, off his shirt cuff, onto the pleat of his pants, down his leg, and off his shoe........
    As it hit the ground, it simply rolled away unbroken.....
    The professors jaw dropped as he stared at the chalk.
    He looked up at the young man, and then ran out of the lecture hall....
    The young man, who had stood, proceeded to walk in front of the room and shared his faith in Jesus for the next half hour.........
    300 Students stayed and listened as he told of God's love for them and his power through Jesus.
    YOU HAVE 2 CHOICES
    1. Pretend you never read this.
    2. Pass this along to your Christian and Non-Christian friends, giving them encouragement we all need everyday.....
    When you choose Option 2, You have chosen to STAND UP

    WILL YOU PASS THIS ON?