Yesterday we presented Voice of the Martyrs ministry at another local church. If you are on our list for prayer partners then you already know which church. And if you are not on that list, then you don't know and it does not really matter as to what I'm going to say here. In fact, it might be better if I don't state specifically. Soooooo........
For 2 yrs, bw has taught at the public high school here. And for 2 yrs, there has been 1 female co-worker about whom she has the most trouble. The main problem has been gossipping and rumoring by the co-worker. Certainly not a month passed but what this lady came to bw with another rumor--often later proven false. Often the co-worker tried to draw bw into some of the strife she was creating. Fortunately, bw learned early not to say anything that could possibly be taken as agreeing with the trouble she had brewing. Meanwhile, bw--much to her credit and my admiration--has worked hard to maintain a friendly relationship with this lady.
So imagine my reaction when I saw this co-worker in the congregation at the church yesterday. I learned that she attends there regularly.
Well, when I first started to write this post, I had somewhere in the back of my mind to say some things about Christians who are consistent versus inconsistent. But I had hardly started the first paragraph when this thought hit me:
I wonder how many times others have seen me in church and said to themselves, "Wow! I never knew he claimed to be a Christian!"
Do you know what I mean?
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Absolutely! As a board member of my homeowners association, one of my duties is to try to enforce the rules and regulations of the association...including trying to identfy folks who put contaminating trash into our recycle bins. As I was sifting through someone's trash to try to identfy the culprit, I found a church bulletin with handwritten sermon notes among the things discarded with the kitchen trash. My instinct was to be judgemental about a person pretending to be a Christian and then breaking the rules. I am the one to be judged in this matter for thinking in such a way and my prayer is that I consistenly make the effort to change this behavior.
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