Church Lady Asks: Why?

by Linda Emmons for TCC

Why...

• do sanctuaries fill up from the back, but church parking lots fill up from the front?
• do evangelicals forgo liturgy but devour books that tell them how to pray?

• do evangelicals "eat up" any diet plan that promises weight loss or better health, but are concerned when they hear someone eats "biblically kosher"?
• do volunteers in kids' ministries claim they do it for the Lord, but then get angry if adult ministry goes a minute over schedule?
• do we claim to be be separate from the world, but our dress and entertainment tastes match exactly?
• do we complain that the same few people do all the work, but refuse to train anyone else?
• do we frown on legalism, but refuse ministry opportunities to divorced or single members?

• do we have huge piles of bibles in "lost and found" -- doesn't anyone MISS their bible, or coats, etc?
• do we quote from bibles so paraphrased that they are really commentaries, not God's Word?
• do people ignore Christian businesses and ministries in their congregation and community with their dollars, but lament when they go out of business or can't hire their son or daughter
• complain that God has forgotten them if they can't get a new car, but remain hard-hearted towards the persecuted church around the world (not to mention the widows, orphans and single moms sitting next to them)?