Well here I sit, frustrated again. It’s Monday night and I’ve suffered thru what felt like a month of Olympic news and now the Democratic National Convention has started. It’s not that I hate sports (no really) or politics, it is just that the constant barrage of skewed inconsequential news presented as life altering information disturbs me. Actually, the election process fascinates me and this DNC will be historic, but it’s the opinionated commentators (yes, I do realize this is just my opinion!) who offer information that has little to do with the process or the outcome that irks me. I guess in a perfect world we could cut thru all the fluff and get to business…whether it is sports or politics…but then, in the real, real world religion will be the main business. There everyone would first know the significance of the eternal. Having said that, here’s the rub…this IS the real, real world, and the reason others do not know the significance of the eternal is because we have failed. Jesus commanded us to be HIS witnesses…not sports fanatics or political activist. Some days it would seem we (the Church) are about everything but being Christ’s witnesses. I am not a prophet, I don’t claim to be, but if the Church will not tend to the business we’ve been commanded to be about, we ought never to be surprised if (when) we find ourselves abandoned by the Spirit.
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