Distracted in church
If you are distracted on Sunday morning and you’re thinking about: (the classic example) your lunch, your to-do list, the thing your brother did that hurt your feelings, or those kids across the aisle that are having an extended, animated conversation… What do you do? How do you regain your focus on the message being preached? I read an article once by a preacher who said he hated babies in church. As soon as they cry, he claimed, at least half the congregation was distracted. All that hard work he’d put into preparation was for nothing, he said. I hated the article because the preacher was stuck on himself as the messenger rather than Christ as the message. But he wasn’t wrong that there are distractions. Some of those distractions are unavoidable—your growling stomach is pretty distracting, especially when the preacher is making those “end of sermon” sounds. A crying baby means a mother is in church and she’s hoping to quiet the little one quickly. Some people find it distracti