Meanwhile, I've mentioned before that I read several blogs regularly. Today as I was catching up on my blog reading and I came accross this post by Josh Griffin. I won't quote the entire blog, but he refers to a situation at their church where a friend of his wife had just accepted Christ last week and was telling Josh's wife about it during the first couple of songs during their worship time. They were excitedly sharing about Jesus' love and this life change when the lady in front of them kept turning around and looking at them with "those eyes." She finally turned around and said, "I'm sorry, but can you guys talk to each other later? I'm trying to worship." To quote Josh, "during her 'worship' she missed the most beautiful expression of worship ever. Angels were dancing in Heaven and she was ticked on earth."
To be fair, we don't know what that woman may have been going through, therefore, I'm not trying to condemn her. How many times do we do the same? We get so into our little moment of what we believe to be "worship" that we miss the most important thing around us--life-change! If there's the slightest disruption we all turn to see who's being so disrespectful. I know I have and I do. Josh's last statement really caught my attention: "Maybe our first reaction to a diruption in the service is that God is up to something, instead of someone being distracted."
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