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Originally Posted by ILG
We've had people comment negatively through sermons and pray loudly at business meetings to sway the vote. Consider yourself blessed.  |
We did have one guy when we first came that would roll his eyes every time there would be a message in tongues and interpretation.
He would fold his arms and sigh, rolling his eyes very mockingly.
I got to praying for the dude, and one Sunday morning during a message in tongues, he started his routine. He was sitting by himself in a pew, with no one even close to him.
While he was going through his expression of contempt, there was a sound that sounded exactly like an uppercut connecting with the sweet spot on the point of his chin, and he went sailing out from between the pews and landed unconscious in the center aisle.
Scared everybody to death.
I tried to pray for him, and couldn't rouse him. I told the folks, leave him lay there, we are going to have church anyway.
He laid there for about thirty minutes, and when he finally came to, he was a very subdued man.
He sat through the remainder of the service, and then walked out without saying a word to anybody. That was his last service.
It was a very sad thing. He showed up a few months ago for the first time in years. he was long haired, unshaven, and unkempt. He wanted to see me outside.
He seemed very sheepish, but wanted to know if I would pray for his daughter, who was in a mental hospital under a suicide watch...it broke my heart to see him so far from where he was when he walked out that morning.
It does not pay to rise up against what God is doing.
I can't even imagine negative comments out loud during a sermon. I'm not sure what I would do, but I daresay some of our men would escort the commentator outside post haste.
That is a great thing.
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