Sunday, December 30, 2007

Presbyterian Church


I attended the nearby Presbyterian Church this morning -- and look who I found on the pew in front of me. This is an historic urban Church that is struggling badly. There were about twenty people there. The lady minister spoke in measured tones of this “harsh and cold reality”, but that this would “not have the final say”. OBSERVATION: It all sounded rather Spartan and cryptic to me -- or perhaps I was missing something. One didn’t have the sense that God is (without meaning to be disrespectful) a Jolly Good Fellow who is very much involved with us.