WHAT DO YOU SEE IN CHURCH?

Jim Smith went to church on Sunday morning. He heard the organist miss a note during the prelude, and he winced. He saw a teenager talking when everybody was supposed to bow in prayer. He felt like the usher was watching to see what he put in the offering plate and it made him boil. He caught the preacher making a slip of the tongue five times in the sermon by actual count. As he slipped out through the side door during the closing hymn, he muttered to himself, “Never again! What a bunch of clods and hypocrites!”

Ron Jones went to church on Sunday morning. He heard the organist play an arrangement of “A Mighty Fortress” and he was thrilled to the majesty of it. He heard a young girl take a moment in the service to speak her simple moving message of the difference her faith makes in her life. He was glad to see that his church was sharing in a special offering for the hungry children in Nigeria. He especially appreciated the sermon that Sunday---it answered a question that had bothered him for a long time. He thought as he walked out the doors of the church, “How can a man come here and not feel the presence of God?”

Both men went to the same church on the same Sunday morning. Each found what he was looking for. What will you be looking for this Sunday?

PRAYER; Heavenly Father, give me spiritual eyes to see and discern your presence in the midst of your people. Help me to look for the good and always praise that which you are doing. Amen.

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