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Behavior of church-goers
raises many questions
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel Saturday, December 9, 2006

What is happening to our society? They tell us more and more people are turning to Christ, yet murder, suicides and substance abuse, not to forget robberies and divorces, have skyrocketed.

So if all these people who fill the churches are truly into the word of the Lord, why is it those very same people have hate in their heart, though in church they praise the Lord and cry. Yet they leave the church, get in their cars and cut people off in traffic and run people over in the stores to get that one special Christmas gift. Are these people truly living life like Christ teaches or do these people buy things that they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like just to get noticed?

"If a man cannot be Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere."

Karen Bonsant

Windsor


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Jim Clark of Augusta, ME
Dec 11, 2006 3:14 PM
Karen, great letter. Reminds me of something a friend of mine releated to me; this was quite awhile ago. It seems Tom, my friend, was waiting outside church so he could drive his mom home. He saw this guy leaving early and he had a young child with him. The child said, "daddy the mass is not over." The truly wonderful christian daddy said, " I know son, we have to got to leave early to beat the "G." "D." traffic!!!!

I have met so many HYPOCRITES who call themselves christians in my lifetime that I have lost count. I just hope that I am not standig close to one when the final judgment comes! They think they are SO GOOD, and they are worse then people who never went to church. report abuse
Leon Richard of Farmington, ME
Dec 9, 2006 7:02 AM
Did you miss the "Dark Ages" section of History of Western Civilization?? When maurauding bands of people roamed the countryside and might made right? You remember, before they developed firearms and the became readily available? Of course, you're not alone... lot's of people wish to return to that. Seems they were out sick, slept through that section too.report abuse

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