KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Listening
THE PREACHER HEARD the sound of someone clipping their nails during the course of his sermon...
The sound was disruptive to both preacher as well as congregation, so the preacher scanned the assembly in an effort to find the "guilty party." Suddenly, the preacher discovered the culprit. It was the song leader, but he wasn't clipping his fingernails, but his toenails!
Before you laugh, let me ask a hard question. Is it any less disruptive, any less disrespectful, when we busy ourselves by playing with babies, talking, flipping through the song book, etc. during the time when God is speaking to us through His Word through the preacher (1 Cor. 2:1-5)?
THOUGHT: Christian, when the Word of God is being taught, are you listening?
KneEmail: "He who has ears to hear, let him hear" (Matt. 13:9).