• Do You Like To Be Blind?  PRO

  Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Mar 30, 2011 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Ephesians 5:1-7, 1 John 4:19-21

  Tags:  Miracles Of Jesus

  Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

DO YOU LIKE TO BE BLIND?

Our grand-kids came to visit our church one Sunday, and I asked our grandson, Caleb, how he liked Sunday School. He said he didn't like it at all!

I asked him why and he explained that the teacher made them close their eyes for a long time and wouldn't let them open their eyes.

I looked at his Sunday School paper and saw they were teaching this same story we talked about today about healing the man born blind. So I explained that the teacher just wanted him to see what it would be like to be blind.

Caleb wasn't impressed. He shouted, "But I don't LIKE to be blind!" (Of course, at that age, he actually said, "I don't WIKE to be Bwind!"

There are a lot of people