Man Boasts He Went as Jesus Christ for Halloween

While we were on the road during a recent cross-country motorcycle run with a small group of Azusa StreetRiders from West Virginia, one of our four bikes was found to have a serious problem. Its final drive pulley was bent. We located a dealership of the correct brand, and put it in to get repairs.

While we waited (in a customer waiting area) for the right part to be obtained, we could not help but hear some frustrating conversations by some dealership employees. The conversations were downright annoying in fact. These employees were coming to the reception area for the coffee and donuts that were seemingly mutual domain of both customers and workers.

In one conversation, an older male worker, who was obviously rather perverted, forced a dirty “joke” upon a younger female employee. She suffered it with what seemed to be mild disdain. The joke teller was impervious to any reluctance on her part. After telling the joke, he demanded to have her affirm that, “Wasn’t that a great joke!?” She seemed to mumble whatever she had to in order to get past him and back to her post.

In another, even more alarming conversation a young male employee boasted that he “went” as Jesus Christ for Halloween the prior year. I sat nearby, amazed and disgusted, as the young man boasted to his co-worker,

“Yep, did you not see my get-up last year? I went as Jesus Christ. I rode my bike as Jesus Christ, the Lord and Savior, nailed to a big cross. As I went by, when people stared, I would reach out and bless them with the sign of the cross.”

Because I was wearing my Azusa StreetRiders back patch, which plainly displays the name of Jesus Christ, I realized their conversation may have been a deliberate attempt to bait me. Part of me wanted to rise up in noble indignation and ask, ‘What is the purpose of such disrespect? Are you aware that is my King you are mocking? Have you no fear of God?’ But another part of me remembered certain Scriptures, including “turn the other cheek,” and I also pondered the distinct possibility that a protest on my part would do nothing to deter the young man, let along change him, and that his judgment could and should be left in the hands of the merciful King that he was determined to mock.

Instead of engaging him in public debate about his disrespect, I determined to boldly tell someone in the dealership about Jesus, my Lord and God. As mentioned, I was already wearing a back patch that publicly displayed the name of Jesus Christ, along with an important Bible verse reference (*Acts 2:38) for all to see. But I determined to do more than that. I soon struck up a conversation with a fellow customer, and witnessed to him about the Lord Jesus, by telling him of a great miracle during which the Lord spared me from a very serious bike crash. If worldly people can be bold in publicly mocking our Lord and King, we can and ought to be bold in publicly proclaiming Him.

The Azusa StreetRiders motorcycle ministry actively seeks to help define and provide a godly sense of masculine identity in the face of many ungodly efforts to pervert what it means to “be a man” in today’s wayward culture. Godly men, discover for yourself the power behind the ASR patch, at www.azusastreetriders.com.

Azusa StreetRiders: Apostolic Motorcycle Ministry of Jesus Christ.

*“Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost” (The Holy Bible, Book of Acts 2:38).