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I Am Reminded About The Story Of This Particular ...
Contributed by David Rogers on Nov 23, 2004 (message contributor)
I am reminded about the story of this particular church. One Sunday morning the congregation arrived to find a dirty old vagrant lying beside the door. Some looked at him and said how awful that someone like that is sitting outside our beautiful church, why the pastor should make him move on we don’t need to encourage the rifraff to camp out outside our church. Others ignored him as they stepped over him. Still others stared. But not a single person offered to help him. As the time neared for the service and the choir had song their songs the preacher still had not shown up. Everybody was looking around trying to find out where the preacher was. Then just as everybody was ready to leave the door to the preachers’ office and in walked the vagrant but as he took off his coat the congregation realized it was the preacher. He stepped to the pew and said these simple words. "I was naked and you did not clothed me, I was hungry and you fed me not, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink". With these few words the preacher stepped down and left the pulpit.
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Alta Vail Of Emporia, Kansas, Tells In Sunshine ...
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In Donald Miller's Book "Blue Like Jazz," He Has ... PRO
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