...And so he sat them down and explained to them what the kingdom of church is like:
There was a boy named Lyle, who worked at Blockbuster. Lyle loved being around movies, talking about movies, and helping others find movies. He liked being with his fellow co-workers and movie loving customers. He was well liked and looked forward to going to work every day. One day he got promoted to store manager but as he quickly learned this required a whole lot of knowledge about Blockbuster and he was not prepared. Lyle was forced to resign. After leaving Blockbuster, Lyle longed to be among movie goers again. How much he missed his job and all of the great customers. Lyle loved helping customers find just the right movie. Lyle dreamed of those wonderful Tuesday mornings when the new movies would arrive and he got to see them first! Lyle was so sad and would spend most of his nights alone watching old movies while eating Toaster Strudels.
Around this time, Lyle began seeking advice from other store managers. Lyle wanted so badly to be among all the new movies again and hoped he could someday return to Blockbuster. Over and over again, the manager's advice was the same.
"Go get your Masters of Blockbuster. Then you'll be ready to manage your very own store," They would say.
"But a Masters of Blockbuster takes three years," Lyle would protest.
The managers kept saying the same thing, "Go get your Masters of Blockbuster!"
"But a Masters of Blockbuster costs over $30,000!" Lyle would plead.
The managers began to shout, "Go get your Masters of Blockbuster!"
"But Blockbuster stores are closing all over the country and the entire company is nearly bankrupt!" Lyle tried to reason.
The managers shouted louder, "Go get your Masters of Blockbuster!"
"But this model is becoming obsolete and people don't get their new movies at Blockbuster anymore!" Lyle responded.
The managers shouted all the louder, "Go get your Masters of Blockbuster!!"
Finally, Lyle stopped trying to argue. A Masters of Blockbuster just didn't make any sense. For awhile he wondered if he would be helpful among movie goers ever again. Lyle had been an employee at Blockbuster for so long, he nearly forgot of any other way to find a new movie. Then, Lyle remembered back to when he watched his first movie. Long before he had gotten a job at Blockbuster. The movie was an action-adventure flick full of adrenaline pumping, pulse pounding twists and turns. It had romance and tragedy, and a surprise ending that left Lyle in tears. He had never seen anything like it before. It stirred him deep within his soul and left him seeing the world a little more clearly. Just then a thought popped into Lyle's brain,
"New movies are coming out all of the time, I just need to find a new place to find them!" He realized.
And so Lyle set off on his journey to find new movies in new places. It felt dangerous and exciting all at once to Lyle. He wasn't even sure if this was possible but the desire to find new movies drove him onward. It almost felt like he was making a new movie himself but that would be presumptuous to think. Some of the Blockbuster employees occasionally heard of Lyle's journey and accused him of liking foreign films but Lyle just let them talk. Besides, he knew the subtitles on those movies bugged him anyway.
The End.
