The way the pews are setup at the church building, some of them are perpendicular to the pulpit. I was sitting in one of those pews today. Across the way, there are another set of pews facing the pulpit, perpendicular the other direction. So these 2 sets of pews mirror each other. Across the way I could see 2 teenaged girls giggling during the sermon. They were poking each other, and in general weren’t listening. The pew was somewhat on the front row; so everyone on my side of the church could see exactly what they were doing. It would have been as bad if I didn’t realize that both of these girls had become Christians just a few months before. I expected them to be able to sit quietly and listen to the sermon. I guess those expectations were just too high. What was bad was that I was sitting right beside some boys the same age as those girls. All of them at least were acting like they were listening, following along with their Bibles. So I know that even at that age, listening can be done.
And everyone wanted a tape of today’s sermon – The Dangers of the Lottery. There wasn’t alot of scripture reference during it, only that we should be good citizens and follow our government’s laws. As far as the lottery message was concerned, it was of using statistics of crime increase and other symptoms of society attributed to lottery implementation.
Just surfing around the web today. I wonder what happened to these people who were waiting in line for 5 months for Star Wars Episode II ( at www.waitingforstarwars.com ). No updates on the site since April 21. I would have expected some big fanfare when they finally got in to see it. But nothing can be found. Makes me wonder if all this hype was worth it. Will they do the same thing for Episode III?
And I still haven’t seen Episode II. I’ll be waiting for it to come on TV, which might be Spring of 2003.
Still trying to figure this news story out. A friend of mine submitted the link to Fark, but it didn’t make the cut. The news report video is pretty funny.