The pastor noticed a middle...
The pastor noticed a middle-aged man kneeling near the altar following his first Sunday
at a new church. People coming through the welcoming line told him that he should
speak with Ray who obviously was broken up about something.
After everyone had left, the pastor asked if there was anything he could do to help. Ray
stated that he knew that God did not love him. He then shared the burden he had carried
his entire life: how his mother was not married when he was born nearly fifty years ago;
how the children at school called him names; and how he always felt that he did not