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Last night at approximately 7pm eastern time I got to enjoy the sight of my playgroup's home, GXE Games of Pompano Beach, FL stock up on their 1st shipment of Redemption product. GXE Games is a secular hobby shop that my local playgroup has found to be their home. Other hobby shops would not allow us to even play there knowing it's a Bible based game and that some of us would witness to their customers.

It's a shame that one of those stores who turned us away have a solid customer base of younger children. GXE is mostly an atmosphere of younger adults. One of the reasons we play there is to just be available to a non-believer, to be a light and a witness. Also to breakdown the crazy idea & notation that some non-believers have of a game based on REAL people, real places and historical events to be weird versus other versions completely devoid of reality. It's saddening to see how much the enemy has blinded the lost.

Anyways, I was on my way to church and remembered that my brother had said the store should be carrying Redemption cards by Tuesday. It was Wednesday evening and I was in the area so I decided to stop by briefly since I had a small window of time available. First thing I did was buy some water in the café and then went to their gaming supply section and register. There I saw Alex, one of the owners and we said hi. I asked him if they got their Redemption product line and he replied that it could literally arrive any minute that Gary, the other owner, had just left to go pick it up.

I really didn't want to wait around too long so I bought some 4 pocket binder sleeves and then headed for the café to leave. Just as I turned the corner Gary blocks the hallway with his hand truck along with three large boxes. I laugh in gladness knowing I'm the only person in my playgroup to witness this. Gary rolled the hand truck across the gaming room up to the counter where the register was and began to open the boxes. The funny thing was that he opens two large boxes that only contained 1-2 products in them. Brushing away all the packing paper and Styrofoam peanuts, Alex finds two Redemption combo booster boxes still perfectly sealed in plastic.

Alex appeared to enjoy cautiously popping open the plastic wrap with a sign of content on his face. After all, this is his store which he works another full-time job just to fund GXE. It's a labor of love for the man. After removing the plastic I could sense his satisfaction in adding a new product line to support his local customers. Alex enjoys what he does.

Afterwards he continued to fold back the lid of the box in half, vertically to display the words, "Redemption". I grow anxious considering I should of left the store 5 minutes ago, yet at the sametime I looked forward to actually having a selection of Redemption products to choose from and make a purchase from. A soon reality compared to a mire imagination six months prior. Alex finally unwrapped & opened both combo booster boxes on top of the counter with packaging taking up most of the space and turned the displays about-face towards me. The moment I had been waiting for, I selected an Apostles, Kings and Patriarchs boosters and stacked them. I can still hear the ruffle of the plastic in my ears.

Alex actually wasn't sure of their set retail price at the moment and asked me what do they normally go for. I told him a dollar, just kidding! Making sure you're still paying attention. I told him straight up, $3.00. He told me three for nine bucks, I open my bi-fold, brown leather wallet and throw down a Hamilton ($10 bill) onto the glass counter-top. Then I grabbed my change, boosters packs, bag and water bottle, and said good night to Gary and Alex and then left the store.

So that was the night GXE Gaming stocked their shelfs with Redemption supplies. What's cooler is knowing everytime someone notices the new product line, the headline, "REDEMPTION" crosses their mind. It's a seed sown, whether they realize it or not, God is reaching out to them. Even if it's as innocent as a collectible card game that tells a story. A story of how a loving Father "Redeemed" a lost world back to Himself through a Man called .... Jesus.
« Last Edit: July 29, 2010, 07:46:23 PM by delarosajon »

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Re: Witnessed my secular hobby shop stock Redemption supplies!!!
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2010, 07:22:35 PM »
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This is fantastic!  Be sure to buy up all his stock so that he keeps needing to re-supply!
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« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2010, 07:31:09 PM »
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Awesome story!  Thanks for sharing! :)

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Re: Witnessed my secular hobby shop stock Redemption supplies!!!
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2010, 07:41:00 PM »
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This is fantastic!  Be sure to buy up all his stock so that he keeps needing to re-supply!

Oh don't you worry about that!!  I'm already known in at least 2 Family Christian Bookstores for wiping out their product...  Unfortunately, their  restock takes much more time because we're the only playgroup in the area (That we know of) so it's not big ticket sales, and thus, no need for rapid restock.  Now that GXE is carrying (And since we also get a bit of say in WHAT they carry  ;) ), my patronage (As well as the rest of the playgroup), will be theirs. 

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Re: Witnessed my secular hobby shop stock Redemption supplies!!!
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2010, 09:33:42 PM »
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That is epic! Thanks for sharing! I love to see that! Its hard enough to get Christian shops to stock it.
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« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2010, 09:59:55 PM »
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Great!  Nice to see another door opened.
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« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2010, 10:02:47 PM »
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Great!  Nice to see another door opened.

More importantly, the door stayed open when he started to walk through it.  ;)

God will certainly bless your efforts as a "good and faithful servant."  ;D
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« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2010, 10:08:53 PM »
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May God also bless the store owners as they distribute Redemption!
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« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2010, 10:33:03 PM »
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Great!  Nice to see another door opened.

More importantly, the door stayed open when he started to walk through it.  ;)

God will certainly bless your efforts as a "good and faithful servant."  ;D

haha, right so that it didn't smack me in the face? Need those from time to time.

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« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2010, 10:33:36 PM »
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That is super cool! Awesome story, thanks for sharing! :)

I always love to see how God uses the simple things, like games, to bring about change. Who knows what plans He has for this little store? Can't wait to hear more.

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Re: Witnessed my secular hobby shop stock Redemption supplies!!!
« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2010, 01:58:42 AM »
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I've always been glad that Redemption is one of the few Christian product lines with material as good or better than the competition (Testamints, I'm looking at you). It may have some severe balance problems (speed and TGT, I'm looking at you) but I think the structure of the game and the next set will combine to put it above MTG in terms of gameplay.
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« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2010, 03:46:41 PM »
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EDIT: whoops wrong topic. I'm not acting sane today  :-\
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Re: Witnessed my secular hobby shop stock Redemption supplies!!!
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2010, 03:47:25 PM »
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N.T. lost soul, */4 LS, Female LS, Altar of Ahaz, and Judas' Plot.

considering only 2 of those lost souls are valid since the fem can still be sog'd, that leaves at the bare minimum 12 lost souls that CAN be sog/nj'd in a normal t1 game. altar of ahaz is useless (like 99% of top decks dont use humans, captured ark, or don) and while i do agree judas plot is an amazing card, its only viable for crimson.

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If the game were as unbalanced as you said in your last post, then why are you playing it?  I think you are exaggerating, or else not being honest with yourself.  Either it is a bit unbalanced but still quite fun and playable, or else it to too unbalanced to be fun and playable.  If it is the former, then stop exaggerating.  If it is the latter, then stop playing.  :)

i love when people say this, because i've only heard this on this board about 2934903840932 times already. i dont know, why DO people still do things despite the things they do having flaws? is this even a legitimate rebuttal by now? can you name a single ccg that doesnt have a flaw? yet why do we still play them? can we ditch the 'if you dont like it, dont do it' attitude because we are all pretty capable of figuring out there are many, many, many reasons people still do things that have hiccups in them?
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« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2010, 03:56:12 PM »
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ahh, i guess i was on the right topic. Part of it just got removed, I guess.
Anyway this is what I was GOING to say (luckily I copied and pasted away from my edited post):

Polarius, I think the only thing in your statement I would disagree on is that you wish there is not a fluffy starter deck coming out.
I personally tried to teach someone with complex decks that I formed, and they got so frustrated. Then I gave them an E/F starter deck, and they understood everything a lot better. Remember, it is a starter deck. For people starting out. I think there is just the right amount of fluff  :laugh:
Also this is ridiculous. We should stop arguing about MTG vs. Redemption. Obviously all of you play redemption. Stop the craziness please, this is a Christian forum and there should not be this much fighting. BOTH SIDES should chill. Everyone has their own opinion. Also stop wasting time and start practicing nats

THIRDLY this was a topic on how amazing it is that Christian items are being sold in a secular store, and rapidly got off-topic. Instead of arguing let's be overjoyed about how this is a huge step. Thank you, delarosajon, for sharing this with us. This is pretty dang huge
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« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2010, 03:57:48 PM »
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Guys this has been moved to another topic with a similar name.
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« Reply #15 on: July 30, 2010, 03:59:06 PM »
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ohhh that would make sense. Where is it though? I looked up the profile of the last person I saw who posted (Korunks) but it said he had never posted it....
so where did it go? was it moved or just cut?
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« Reply #16 on: July 30, 2010, 04:16:04 PM »
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Oh, I see the problem. It was moved to Open Discussion which is restricted by age. Sorry. I forgot about that.
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« Reply #17 on: July 30, 2010, 06:51:09 PM »
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ohhhh, hahahahahaha  :D I thought I was going crazy, I didn't recognize any of the last posts and was sooooooooo confused! =p

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« Reply #18 on: July 30, 2010, 10:38:55 PM »
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Thank goodness I f5'd before posting.
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