Emphasis Preaching Journal

Most everyone has experienced unanswered prayer. For one pastor and his wife it had to do with their son. He grew up in a parsonage and, for the first eighteen years of his life, was in church every week. He always seemed to enjoy being there and his parents often wondered if he would continue the pastor tradition in the family. If so, it would be the fifth consecutive generation in which at least one person became a pastor. But when he left home to go into the service, he quickly forgot about God and the church.