Where your treasure is, your heart will be also. (Matthew 6:21).
Reading my journal from the 1990s, I am reminded of a lot of things–the grace of God and His sovereignty, the sweetness of many of God’s people, and also the sheer unabashed hypocrisy of a few.
Some months after I left one pastorate, the business manager of the church and I had lunch together one day. This is from my notes written that night. I’m eliminating the names, because identifying these people would serve no purpose. Many of them have gone on to their (ahem) just rewards and what’s done is done.
What the business administrator said was stunning.