And if we opened up, we could have a good conversation because people like us are really good at pointing out other people like that. In fact, the discrepancy is almost incredible. You know what I’m saying? They have this pretense and they have a lot of exposure to God’s Word but somehow it hasn’t translated into a life of love and joy and peace and power. But how many of you could honestly come up with a name of someone that they really, they read the Bible, or at least they seem to read the Bible or they have had a lot of exposure to the Bible, or they hear a lot of verses and maybe listen to the radio.īut you would say, if someone asked you, and of course you would never say this and no one would ever ask you, their life isn’t at all like Christ.
How many of you could come up with a name? Now, don’t say it out loud. Critical, negative, acid, behind-the-scenes, “this person, that person, what about this, what about that?” He ruined more sermons than he’ll ever know because my ten minutes with him took me about two hours to recover from and a lot of times, I didn’t have time to do that before the message. “This is wrong, that’s wrong, what about this?” And he could say it with this nice, syrupy smile. And he had his big, black Bible and his great, big smile and in ten minutes, he could ruin my whole day. He was obviously a Christian for forty-five years, he was somewhat older than I and I wanted respect for his age and I was new at the church at the time.Īnd so, I was always there early and my wife was there early and we would come into this one room before we went to the worship center.
He had one of the most bitter hearts and acid tongues that I have ever been exposed to in my whole life. “I’ve been a Christian for over forty-five years!” And he would tell you about the great churches he had been involved in, the great preachers that he has heard.Īnd along with this big, black Bible and this great, big smile, he had a great, big mouth.
And along with his big black Bible and his great big smile he would tell everyone, “I have been a Christian for over forty-five years.” It was his claim to fame. And he would come about twenty minutes early to church many, many years ago. It was marked up everywhere.Īnd he had this great big smile. He had a big black Bible and it was marked up.
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