hmmm..... been tryin to get to this since Sunday now can you believe it!....
so let's try this in bits ok.... saturday night i heard this anecdote..... i was having a much needed fellowsjhiop chat with my sadly departing fellowhip friend who is intending to stay in touch.... it was quite human...
they've had some shifts of fellowship of their own.... one being a pastor and wife who ..... well i like this story:
hmmmm we were talking about judgement
a distant community seem to have been headhunting this pastor... it does happen! .... so he and his wife prayed about that .... at first there was absolutely no response... then after a while .... GOD said 'not yet' ... those words suggested that change was imminent at some point..... ok then comes the time where the time is right.... ok soooo....
the new pastor arrives... dunno where they got that one from..... so someone goes along to check out the new pastor...: they describe how they wanted to leave but they were sat wedged between two women ...
the new pastor proceeds to slag off the recently departed pastor..... and makes the dramatic statement: this church is not growing because there is sin in this church!'.... it surely is pretty dramatic given what little i know of this church being a pretty bogstandard biblical way of life church .... with the usual fear clean appearance complete with lack of smiles .... anyhow... this statement gets reported to the departed pastor..... who turns white.... and then said 'he (the new pastor) will reap what he sows'.....
do you know for some reason i didn't quite like that response.... (nothing had been mentioned of the slagging off of the departing pastor btw....)
as i was saying we were talking about judgement... seems we is all a bit vulnerable to that!
how difficult is it to spot sin? how do we know if we find it
i am quite interested in the subject of stains and uncomfortable truths waiting for a bit of wash a few soap suds and all that....
haha did i put that view of the stains as the main focal point?.... when it is the after effect .... we should all be looking at looking for? of soap that is
GOD BLESS!
Peace and Love,
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