Rev. Ray and Pat Amos

Hebrews 10:24-25

It was a Monday morning (We were living in Kingsport) and I had walked into the grocery store. A woman came up to me and started apologizing for not being in church on Sunday. She gave three or four excuses that didn’t sound like the same thing she would have told the Lord; but the problem was that I had no idea who she was. Suddenly she stopped talking; she just stared at me and said a couple of words that I will not write, and then, “….you are not pastor…”

It is said that D. L. Moody ran into a drunken lady on a Chicago street who said to him: “Mr. Moody, I am one of your converts.” He responded, “You must be one of mine, because it seems clear that your life has not been changed by Christ.”

I had been told that I looked just like another pastor in Kingsport, and on that Monday Morning in the grocery store I met one of his members.

On a Sunday afternoon sometime later, Pat and I were downtown when a little boy came to me looking up with the proudest expression as he said something that I did not understand. I kneeled down beside him as he repeated his words, “I went to church today.” I had just met one of my look-alike pastor’s lambs. Isaiah spoke of a day when, “a little child will lead them.”

Tomorrow is the Lord’s Day. What will we have to say about our church attendance when Monday comes? Do you remember this Scripture? “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” Hebrews 10:24-25

Grace and Peace, Rev Ray