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Is Your Living in Vain?

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Good News For Youth (GNFY) published under the oversight of the Alkire Rd Church of Christ elders and posted by permission of the editor.

 

Do we disrespect the poor?It was a cold winter's day that Sunday. The parking lot to the church was filling up quickly. I noticed as I got out of my car that fellow church members were whispering among themselves as they walked to the church. As I got closer I saw a man leaned up against the wall outside the church.

 

He was almost laying down as if he was asleep. He had on a long trench coat that was almost in shreds and a hat topped his head, pulled down so you could not see his face He wore shoes that looked 30 years old, too small for his feet with holes all over them, his toes stuck out. I assumed this man was homeless, and asleep, so I walked on by through the doors of the church.

 

We all fellowshipped for a few minutes, and someone spoke up about the man laying outside. People snickered and gossiped but no one bothered to ask him to come in, including me. A few moments later church began.

We all waited for the Preacher to take his place and to give us the Word, when the doors to the church opened.

We all waited for the Preacher to take his place and to give us the Word, when the doors to the church opened.

 

In came the homeless man walking down the aisle with his head down. People gasped and whispered and made faces. He made his way down the aisle and up onto the pulpit he took off his hat and coat.

 

My heart sank.

 

There stood our preacher...he was the "homeless man." No one said a word.

 

The preacher took his Bible and laid it on the stand. "Folks, I don't think I have to tell you what I am preaching about today."

 

Then he started singing the words to this song. "If I can help somebody as I pass along. If I can cheer somebody with a word or song. If I can show somebody that he's traveling wrong. Then my living shall not be in vain."

"Is Your Living In Vain?"

"...have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons...

...and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there...

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors"

(See James 2:1-9)

 

-– Selected, September 2000 –-

 


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