Welcome to Grant's Heavenly Top Ten. With the New Year upon us and those of us who haven't learned, making resolutions, I thought it proper for this the January 1997 issue of the Top Ten to be refective in nature. So here it is:
“Top Ten Indications
That You've Backslidden”
- The last three worship services you've attended have all been on Christmas Eve.
- The last time you read the Bible there were only three Gospels.
- The last 3,243 prayers you've made all ended with the phrase, "and bless this food to our body's use."
- The bumper sticker on your car says, "I'm a Christian, but I'm NOT honking for anyone!"
- The last ministry you were invovled in began when some Greek widows started complaining (Acts 6).
- The last time you were at a Church potluck, casseroles and jellied salads hadn't been invented.
- The last prayer meeting you were at was interrupted when Peter came to the door (Acts 12).
- The last prompting you felt from the Holy Spirit was a request for Gatorade (1 Thess. 5:19, KJV).
- Living by trial and error
- And the number one indication
that you've backslidden is: - You remember becoming a Christian but you can't remember why?
The Heavenly Top Ten is intended to be a fun look at
issues of faith and fellowship. It should not be considered a serious treatment
of
any of the topics presented.