Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Phone Call

Posted by Reverend Ref + at 6:57 PM

My exceptional and wonderful and very talented secretary leaves at 1 p.m.  This means it's up to me to hold down the fort for the rest of the afternoon.

I took a call late yesterday afternoon that went something like this:

"Hello, this is Reverend Ref."

"Are you the pastor?"

"Yes."

"I'd like to talk to you about the Ten Commandments."

"What about them?"

"Well . . . about the 4th Commandment."

"What about it?"
*Grabbing my BCP to find out exactly which one that is*

"Well, are you aware of the upcoming legislation that will require Sunday to be set apart as the official worship day?"

"No . . . "

"Well, there's upcoming legislation that will specify Sunday as the only allowable worship day in direct contrast with God's law of keeping the Sabbath.  The Sabbath, as God laid down, is not Sunday but Saturday, and this law will make all of us go against God.  I have a book if you'd be interested in reading."

"No, I'm not really interested because I'm pretty sure I don't agree with you on this."

"Oh . . . okay . . . thanks for being honest.  Have a good day."

"You too."

Some days are more entertaining than others.

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1 comments:

Lady Anne | 9:47 AM, July 18, 2012  

I got into a similar discussion with someone, many years ago, and simply pointed out that back in the early 1700s the calendar had gotten so out of whack with the sun and moon that we had simply dropped eleven days. Yesterday was the 1st and today was the twelfth, so really we were all worshipping on the wrong day, if you want to get technical. For a while, a lot of people listed their birthdays as "June 15th; June 3rd O.S." for old style.

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