Thought of the Day !!

Jesus said to his disciples: "Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come. It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.
Luke 17:1-2 (NIV)

This couple invited their best friends, who didn’t attend a church anywhere, to go to church with them. They started going for a while and got interested in the things going on there. They attended a revival at their new church and found Jesus and turned their lives over to him and then joined the church.

These new Christians were truly excited and wanted to a part of the church in any way possible. So they started going to Sunday night Bible study. They attended the couples Sunday school. They joined the choir. The husband started going to the men’s breakfast and the wife joined the women’s group.

The wife goes to her first meeting of the ladies group where they all gather and begin talking. To the wife’s surprise, they start complaining about the pastor. Then they move on to how one particular lady in the church needs to have more control over her kids in church…”they’re just going to turn out to be no good like their dad”, they say.
Before long the wife joins right in so that she’ll fit in with the rest of the ladies. When they decide it’s time to do their devotion, the leader choses to speak about how they should love everyone as Christ loves them.

On the same evening, the husband receives a call from the man who invited him to church. He asks him to cover for him. It seems that he’s been cheating on his wife and is asking the husband to give him an alibi. When asked, “Is that the Christian thing to do?” The reply is that a real friend would. And so he does.

And Jesus said that it would be better for a person to thrown to his or her death in the sea than for that person to cause another to sin. Maybe we should look at our selves and ask if we’re causing anyone to sin.

In the love of Christ,
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