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Thursday, February 27, Crestridge Elementary in Omaha, Nebraska sponsored a "Dress Like Your Favorite Book Character" day. One eleven year old boy came to school dressed as Jesus. He wore a tunic and carried a staff to complete the image.

A 12-year-old boy from a neighboring middle school saw the young man dressed as Jesus and began taunting him, calling him "Little Bo Peep" and "Heidi." The two boys got into a fight, and according to the local paper, "Jesus got a black eye." According to the police report, both boys claimed the other threw the first punch.

The reporter who filed the story asked a telling question. "What would Jesus do if he were an elementary school kid and someone called him Little Bo Peep?"

WWJD bracelets are more than fashion statements for believers, they remind us to walk in His steps and behave as He would. If we take the question to heart, "What Would Jesus Do in this situation?" maybe our behavior won't give Jesus another black eye.

—www.omaha.com, Tuesday, March 5, 2002., Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Jim Sandell

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WWJD

While saying that she believes her husband's untimely death was in God's will, Tracey Stewart, Payne Stewart's widow admits that there are times when she asks "why?" Her faith is strong; she knows God has a purpose for what happens in life, but she still deals with the pain of losing her best friend.

Among the things that survived the terrible plane crash was Payne's WWJD. (What would Jesus do?) bracelet. Tracey wears it all the time to remind her to be a good example to her children and a faithful witness to the world.

In their book, Payne Stewart: The Authorized Biography, Stewart and co-author Ken Abraham shows how God brings hope through tragedies. And that, no doubt is what Jesus would do.

—BP 6-8-2000 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson

To read an illustration about Stewart's Conversion experience, paid subscribers may go to http://www.freshministry.org/Illustrations/012500.html#Gospel's

For more information on Payne Stewart: The Authorized Biography go to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805423966/fm082-20

What would it be like to live like Jesus? Literally, I mean. What would it be like to follow the law? To abide by both the Old Testament rules and the New Testament principles? Two authors did just that. AJ Jacobs, a cultural Jew, lived for a year according to the standards of the Bible. He wrote about his year-long journey in The Year of Living Biblically. He didn't shave his beard. He didn't wear clothing made of mixed fiber. He wrote the law on his doorframe. He remembered the Sabbath. 

Inspired by Jacobs, Rachel Held Evans lived for a year abiding by the requirements for women found in the Bible. She wrote of her experience in A Year of Biblical Womanhood. She describes her year in the subtitle: "How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master." Both authors leave their year-long experience with a profound change. One drew closer to his heritage and became more open to a relationship with God. The other drawn closer to Jesus and the diversity and complexity of womanhood. What if you did a similar experiment? What if you immersed yourself in the teachings of the Bible and practiced the principles you found there? How would your life be different? —Jim L. Wilson and Abigail Davis

Tenn. woman lives for one year in STRICT accordance to the Bible by MEENA HART DUERSON

James 1:22-25 (HCSB) (22) But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. (23) Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror. (24) For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. (25) But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but one who does ?good? works—this person will be blessed in what he does.