Monday, March 28, 2005

Ah, the little things

Yesterday in church, I noticed a child, probably between 6-8 years old, who was chomping at the bit, begging his dad for some money so he could put it in the offering. I looked over at my wife and related how when we're kids we're willing to put our entire weekly allowance in the offering and give it to the church, but when we get older we fight about 5 or 10 percent.

Amazing how things change, isn't it?


Book of the day, Pleasing God by R..C Sproul

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It makes perfect sense -- a child doesn't understand the value of money, doesn't know any better....

9:32 AM  
Blogger Bobby's blog said...

Or maybe we value money too much because we don't know any better.....

10:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And yet offering plates continue to be passed over and over and over and over and over and ov....

12:27 PM  

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