Emphasis Preaching Journal

The little boy went to spend a vacation at the home of his grandparents. In addition to Sunday church services, they would often take the boy with them to prayer meetings. He would hear prayers for the sick, the homeless, the victims of war and injustice, world peace, and a host of other matters. He began to feel this was important business indeed. When his parents came to pick him up his mother commented, "How fine he looks, I was a little worried about his going to all those parties." "What parties?" asked the grandmother.