Technical Difficulties!

Agggggg! Jill’s cell phone finally died so we ordered her a new one…praise God it was free…but I’ve just spent about 90 minutes trying to activate it. Do I sound frustrated? Verizon gave me an Alltel number to call to activate…when I called it they said, “what?” So I go online to activate and sure enough that won’t work either. Then I call the number Verizon provided for customer service…no option to activate on the menu tree (in between the automated options I am praying for the Lord to take me home!). Finally in desperation I do the online chat. Guess what? She cannot help me, but was able to give me the correct number so I could get assistance to activate this fool thing…which by the way only took about 12 minutes to do manually…after already spending 70+ minutes trying to get to the right person! Praise God for technology when it works…I just pray that we (the Church) do not treat people like this when they are trying to ‘activate’ a relationship with God. Could this be why people leave or feel rejected by the Church? I will be honest, I am real close to tossing Verizon…would be real easy to stay home if I was treated this way by the Church! All I can say (with apologies to Charles Dickens) is “God help us…everyone!” Now that I've calmed down, I think I'll call my bride in the other room and see if the contraption works!