Restaurants and Worship
Well, it is official, summer is over. How do I know? Kids are back in school and the stands are full for High School home football games. I don’t know about you, but the summer was refreshing. No, I don’t mean anything about the temperatures, for I dislike heat more than just about anything else. Why was summer refreshing? I took a few weeks of vacation, and while on vacation was able to attend worship services in God’s house. While attending these services, I was a hearer of God’s Word and a receiver at the Table of the Lord. What a blessed thing it was not to be a servant, but to be one of those served. This is not to say that when I conduct the service, I am not preaching to myself. In fact, I write my sermons directed at everybody, myself first and foremost. I am also the first to receive the Lord’s Supper from my hand. But there is something about being purely receptive that is so refreshing. When I go out to a restaurant, it is nice to sit in