Romans 14:13 Let us not
therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a
stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
My seat in church was in the
second row, because I could hear the sermon better if I was up close.
My friend enjoyed sitting
with another lady in the back, because from there she could view everyone else
and see what was going on.
She spied a young couple who
sat mid section with their teen age foster son.
The woman leaned over and placed a kiss on the lad’s mouth, right there
in church.
My friend could not believe
her eyes, as she gasped and held her breath.
She could not allow this to
happen without interference, so she followed the husband into the kitchen and
asked him to do something about his wife.
The husband replied he was helpless to
do anything and she needed to mind her own business.
Well my friend was not
stopped by this lack of appreciation so her next move was to speak to the
Pastor’s wife, who informed her to let Pastor handle it and that they would
take care of the problem.
After a couple of weeks, my
friend was not satisfied that anything had been done to her approval so she
decided to take matters into her own hands.
The next Sunday I noted that
the young couple and foster son were not in church and my friend smugly
informed me what had been going on and what she had done to correct it.
Yes,” she said, “I wrote her
a letter and preached her a good sermon on how a Christian ought to behave.”
In shock and terribly embarrassed,
I told her, “I can’t believe that you would do such a thing to send her a
letter. It really wasn’t up to you!”
She replied, “Well, no one
else was doing anything, so I had to do something.”
Naturally the young couple
quit attending our church and although that did not alleviate the situation, my
friend seemed to be pleased that they were gone.
Don’t you wish you had such a
good friend as mine to fix all the problems in a church?
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Ouch! I don't blame you for the sarcasm. That's the problem in churches; others feeling compelled to be the voice of God without stopping to consider the heart of our Father.
Following rules should be the manifestation of the heart, the legalists tend to get that backward...
Have mercy. If that's the worst thing that poor foster mama ever does...
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