I looked out my window while cooking dinner the other night and saw Phil sitting on the ground, drawing in the sand and talking with another of the leaders from the area here. This is a common sight in our yard lately and I imagine if you followed the tracks of Phil’s motorcycle around the village you would find many more drawings of the same sort sketched in the sand. When he encounters people with questions and confusion (which is pretty common) he has found that the easiest way to explain things is to draw a picture in the sand to illustrate the example we have been using from day one. The picture shows the trunk and branches of a tree. They come asking questions like, “We understand these truths in God’s word but when we start trying to line them up with what we have been taught previously we just come away confused. It seems that God’s word is contradictory”. Phil then goes on to explain that all of the main religions of this area agree to the trunk of the tree (God’s Word) but when you get up into the branches of “man-made religion” things start to get confusing. Each branch of religion brings new teaching that conflicts with what the trunk says. The best way to avoid confusion is to stick with what we know in the truth of the trunk! More times than not they agree saying, “Yes, you are right, these branches are just too perplexing, I am going to stick with the trunk”. A picture (even in the sand) is worth a thousand words! (If you look really closely at the sand in the picture you can see the outlines of the picture I am referring to)