Respecting what God is Saying
As a little girl growing up in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Waldo, OH, I remember how my mother would not let us leave the service once it started. We would especially get in trouble if we had to go to the bathroom while the minister was speaking. I remember many a Sunday being told with a forced smile, I had better wait until the preacher was done, and next time go before the service began. While I may laugh about this now, really my momma was teaching me a life lesson. She was teaching me that what the man or woman of God was speaking was something I needed to hear. We were expected to be still in the pews. She was teaching me that one needed to respect the word of God and the voice of God. Now I’m not saying if people get up while a pastor is preaching because it’s an emergency is wrong, but what I am saying is that there needs to