Where’s Greg?” Anne asked the...
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“Where’s Greg?” Anne asked the pastor minutes before worship, “I haven’t seen him in church for several weeks now.” The pastor replied that he did not know and that it would be a good idea for Anne to call him. The truth is that Greg selfishly demanded his own way on a certain matter. Others on the church board did not agree with him or support his motion. Greg became angry and left the meeting. He did not get his own way. There are times in the life of the church when we need to put aside our own views and work together for the glory of God. We cannot always get our own way, especially when our views express self-centeredness. Fortunately Anne did reach out to Greg. She called him that afternoon and told him how much she and others missed him and how the church needed him. Two weeks later Greg was present at worship. John was an old-fashioned preacher who told it like he saw it, which angered the king. When his daughter asked for John’s head the king readily agreed. It was an act of self-centeredness or selfpreservation that King Herod agreed to behead John the Baptist.
