Church work is
hard everywhere. Did you pray at your last deacons'
banquet, "Lord, thank you for preparing a table for me in the
presence of my enemies"? Is your church so small that when you
say "Dearly Beloved," your wife is embarrassed?
Do you feel as
if each sermon is like explaining Leviticus to a four-year-old?
Do you feel like you are the Titanic and the church is the iceberg?
Is your latest vision statement "Misery loves company"?
Was deacon grump-a-lot voted chairman and his wife believes her
spiritual gift is suffering?
Speaking of
suffering, did your best deacon say he never understood
suffering until he heard you preach? And worse, the chairman of your
over-budget and under-financed committee has been there so
long it is rumored he is the one who ratted on Ananias and
Sapphira…
Why is church
work so difficult? It is the people. They are everywhere. If
you don't like the people at your church, remember they are at
every other church. They are all defective--just like you and me. We have
been recalled by our Maker….It's always been that way. That
is why Jesus had more religious people plotting against Him than
praying for Him.
--Charles
Lowery, www.charleslowery.com,
excerpted from "ALERT!
Recalled," in SBC LIFE (www.SBCLIFE.net),
June/July 2011, p. 24
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