Emphasis Preaching Journal

Being a Christian unfortunately does not prohibit us from doing the wrong thing in the wrong manner. We are admittedly reluctant to deal with these words of Jesus. I recall having a boy, after he had come to have confidence in men, tell me at a church camp, "My father pretends to be one thing in church, praying and everything. But at home he drinks and shouts and mistreats mom and us." This boy was trying to clarify how his father could act one way in church, but the opposite at home.