There is a story about a church that had called a meeting of the board. According to this newsletter the following are some notes from this meeting: “The Board of Absentees will meet each time a service of the church is in session. They will discuss various ways of keeping attendance as low as possible. They will endeavor to see that there is no enthusiasm, and help to decrease the offerings.
The board will also seek to weaken the preachers influence, and plan various ways to hinder any revival efforts and all visitation programs in or by the church. The Board of Absentees is composed of the following members: I. M. Unconcerned, Mrs. O.U. Hypocrite, Mr. & Mrs. U.R. Lazy, Mrs. C. Others, and Mr. I.M. Disgruntled, chairman.”
Church attendance is so painful to some folks.
In spite of what the scriptures teach:
“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching” (Heb. 10:25).
“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin” (James 4:17).
There are those who simply refuse to worship God on the Lord’s Day.
The following poem has a point:
I wish you folks would come to church
If only for a visit.
For some day they will carry you in,
And the Lord will say, “Who is it?”
A little old man was seen every Sunday morning walking to church. He was deaf, so he could not hear a word of the sermon or hear any of the singing of the hymns by the congregation.
A scoffer asked, “Why do you spend your Sundays in that church when you can’t hear a word?”
He replied, “I want my neighbors to know which side I am on.”
Perhaps he had read, “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD” (Joshua 24:15).
Larry