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THE PREACHER
Years ago I invited a fellow minister from southern Indiana to speak at our church. He preached with a passion and spit out memorized scripture like no one I’ve ever known. Our church loved him because he knew the word.
Some years passed and I heard that he had divorced his wife. The reason: she was not clean. She worked a full time job, was mother to four children, but hated to clean. Laundry piled up and dirty dishes sat in the sink. Clutter was all around the house. So, he divorced her and remarried a beautiful blond ten years his junior.
Sometime after that he called and asked if he could return to speak at New Hope. Although I still treat him as a friend, I will not subject our church to his leadership if he can’t live it. I’m not interested in hearing the Word of God from him if I can’t see the Word of God in his life. He apparently had the word in his head just fine, but he couldn’t get it in his heart! And that’s where the word of God becomes life to us: Character!
Do you agree or do you think I should be more merciful?