I remember years ago how this brother would tell the church at the time of taking the collection that the lesson of the widow’s mites is that you don’t have to give much! And every time he did the collection, that’s what he said.

That is NOT the lesson Jesus is saying. The widow gave everything she had.

Lk.12:41

This same brother often got things wrong.

Another thing he would get wrong was during his talk before the Lord’s Supper, he would say it was a “celebration” that Jesus is returning. His reasoning? Well he said Jesus said to observe the Lord’s Supper ‘until He returns’.

Hmmm, that phrase “until He returns” tells how long to partake of the Lord’s Supper. It does not say the observance is about His return. In fact, the Lord’s Supper is a time to “remember”, hence it is a memorial done ‘in memory’, to look back on the death of Jesus Christ. Did you get that, it is a time to look back, not look ahead, at something. This was the sloppy way the brother would approach scripture and I do not doubt that it came from a lazy approach to study and reliance more on denominational material.

This brother rarely had an original thought. He would often do little talks before the Lord’s Supper by reading from a little monthly paperback booklet, the kind churches subscribe to and hand out for free.

The brother in question is somewhere fishing today, I suppose.

I opposed him being an Elder because he was weak on Scripture and a weak leader in his home. His wife more than once publicly chastised and embarrassed him in front of the church. It was clear who was in charge that home.

The time I confronted him over his playing “contemporary Christian music” and exposing the young people in the church, I told him it was wrong to support worship music that is not authorized in the Scriptures. He insisted it was different if he did it alone. I reminded him he was transporting youths to event and exposing them and so he was not doing it “alone”. His reply was that I was “all wet”.

The church needs strong men who are strong at home and who are strong in the Scriptures.

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