Emphasis Preaching Journal
Why do we so often...
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Why do we so often get stuck on the marginal, the side-issue, the unimportant, and miss Christ?
There were two elderly women who were overheard on their way home from a concert in which a noted violinist had played. "Wasn't that wonderful?" one of the little ladies exclaimed. "Didn't like it a bit," said the other. "The way he blew his nose after the first number spoiled the whole evening."
It is painful to say that we have a lot of folks in our local churches like that: critical, contentious, habitually missing the music and hearing only the blowing of a nose.
There were two elderly women who were overheard on their way home from a concert in which a noted violinist had played. "Wasn't that wonderful?" one of the little ladies exclaimed. "Didn't like it a bit," said the other. "The way he blew his nose after the first number spoiled the whole evening."
It is painful to say that we have a lot of folks in our local churches like that: critical, contentious, habitually missing the music and hearing only the blowing of a nose.