Sat through a sermon today about forgiveness, and the pastor told a story about shopping in a store. The clerk asked if he was Christian, and he was wearing regular clothes, so he was dumbfounded at the question. The clerk asked because the pastor was putting everything back in its place (instead of leaving where it didn't belong). He discovered after a brief conversation this clerk kept a list of dislikes of churches they had been to. At one church, he wore sweatpants to the worship service, and they were criticized so disliked that church. Went to another church, and they did something someone criticized, so they didn't like that church. Apparently, this clerk doesn't handle criticism well. Not good for a customer service job. Well, the pastor continued, when we make lists of dislikes, we create walls, and he spent many hours breaking down those walls. And walls are bad for a church, as well as in marriages. The pastor suggested forgiveness and not making lists of what we dislike about someone. Sinning and having someone call you out on it is not necessarily a bad thing. I thought that was a good point.
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