The parable of the STUPID polititian!

Theres alot of politics going on at the moment, which reminds me...

There once was a polition. He was well liked by his nation, he would go the people, listen to them, talk to them and have compassion on them. He would then do what he believed was best for the people, he would empower his supporters and he had a clear mission! And they kept on voting for him.

But after a while he lost his passion for the people and spent most of his time in parliament with the other politians. The nation stopped voting for him even though his party was better preferred, everything he stood for disappeared quickly, and soon the public stopped voting for him. Once he finished this job, he went bankrupt and ended up homeless.

If you forget your mission in life you will end up like the homeless polititian.

I believe this is an analogy of The Salvation Army.

Heres one of the questions I often ponder, "Do we keep open churches that arent growing or trying to grow, do we sow time and effort into them to see if they bear fruit again or do we shut them down and chase our mission un-restricted?"

While sitting in the gutter the politian was reminded of the times he would speak to people such as himself, he would have pity on them and try to give them a job. Using the glory of the past to motivate him he got up, dusted himself off, and began his second go at being a polititian. He was successfull, and was never voted out of parliament again!