In my devotional this morning I read a story about two Christian young men who decided to visit a Church in their community. The preacher preached about hell that Sunday morning. The two visiting young men described the preacher as seeming to be a little too pleased about the judgment to come upon sinners.
At the end of the service as people started leaving, the
two young men decided to stay in their pew to see if anyone would come over and
greet the two strangers that wandered into their Church. They wanted to see how
much the preacher and the congregation really care about them. They sat there
for a long time, and then left quietly. Their impression was that this was a
Church that gleefully delivered bad news.
The lesson I drew from this sad story was that we should
not rebuke people if we find ourselves enjoying it. If we're going to talk
about hell and judgment, let us do so with tears in our eyes and caring in our
hearts. Oh! By the way, let's be sure to greet strangers at Church.
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