WATCH YOUR WORSHIP (6 OF 15)
by Keith Krell
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:1-7
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Watch Your Worship (6 of 15)
Series: ''The Good Life''
Keith Krell
Ecclesiastes 5:1-7
I have a confession: I don't like paying for parking. I will look far and wide to find free parking instead of putting money in a meter or paying someone in a booth. For over twenty years, I have picked people up at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport. Whenever I have picked someone up, I would park outside the arrival terminal. My goal has always been the same: to avoid paying to park my car. So I would wait as long as I could near the curb of the airline pickup area. While waiting I would often hear a recording over the loudspeaker, ''The white zone is for loading and unloading only. No parking.'' Now, mind you, I was waiting to load up; however, if my passengers were delayed and I was waiting at the curb too long, a police officer would usually approach my car and ask me to move on. Being the law-abiding citizen that I am, I would oblige him. However, I must confess that I made the loop at the Sea-Tac Airport over again and over again.
I wish there were some way to announce over a loudspeaker system outside every church, ''The worship zone is for learning, listening, and changing only. No parking! Be alert! Listen carefully! Truth will be deposited in your head that is designed to change your life.'' But chances are, even if a loudspeaker made such an announcement, the same thing would occur-folks would still ''park'' and turn a deaf ear to the recording and give pastoral police officers the runaround.
In Eccl 5:1-7 Solomon pens some convicting words. He is going to sober us up. He may even make us feel badly. Now, I hope that you don't come to church to be made to feel happy. The Bible isn't a book about happiness; it's a book about holiness. This means sometimes the Bible will say things that you and I don't like. Yet, if our goal is to become progressively holy, we will welcome the hard words of Scripture. For hard words make soft people and soft words make hard peop ...
Series: ''The Good Life''
Keith Krell
Ecclesiastes 5:1-7
I have a confession: I don't like paying for parking. I will look far and wide to find free parking instead of putting money in a meter or paying someone in a booth. For over twenty years, I have picked people up at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport. Whenever I have picked someone up, I would park outside the arrival terminal. My goal has always been the same: to avoid paying to park my car. So I would wait as long as I could near the curb of the airline pickup area. While waiting I would often hear a recording over the loudspeaker, ''The white zone is for loading and unloading only. No parking.'' Now, mind you, I was waiting to load up; however, if my passengers were delayed and I was waiting at the curb too long, a police officer would usually approach my car and ask me to move on. Being the law-abiding citizen that I am, I would oblige him. However, I must confess that I made the loop at the Sea-Tac Airport over again and over again.
I wish there were some way to announce over a loudspeaker system outside every church, ''The worship zone is for learning, listening, and changing only. No parking! Be alert! Listen carefully! Truth will be deposited in your head that is designed to change your life.'' But chances are, even if a loudspeaker made such an announcement, the same thing would occur-folks would still ''park'' and turn a deaf ear to the recording and give pastoral police officers the runaround.
In Eccl 5:1-7 Solomon pens some convicting words. He is going to sober us up. He may even make us feel badly. Now, I hope that you don't come to church to be made to feel happy. The Bible isn't a book about happiness; it's a book about holiness. This means sometimes the Bible will say things that you and I don't like. Yet, if our goal is to become progressively holy, we will welcome the hard words of Scripture. For hard words make soft people and soft words make hard peop ...
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