• Too Good For Your Church

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  Scripture:  Ephesians 4:17-24

  Tags:  Church Growth

TOO GOOD FOR YOUR CHURCH

A good set of clothes makes all the difference. A Methodist church tried to get a man to attend, but he never did. "Why don't you come?" the minister asked, and the man finally admitted it was because he didn't have proper clothes. So a member of the congregation took him to a clothing store and got him a nice suit, shirt, tie and shoes. But on the following Sunday, he still did not show up. So the minister visited him again and asked him why he didn't come. "When I got dressed up in my new suit," the man explained, "I looked so good I decided to go to the Episcopal church."

(Source: from a sermon by Mark Schaeufele, "Living in Christ Part 1: Off With the Old and On With the New" 7/28/08)