Sunday Complaints
I am so tired. Sunday is my one day off and I still have to get up early and go to services. Why don’t they move Bible class and worship back one hour? I have already overslept. I am running late. I will never get the kids ready in time, and I will have to walk into class late. I hate that. I feel like everyone is staring at me and wondering why they can be on time and I can’t. People at church can be so stuck up sometimes. They are no better than me. I wish they wouldn’t act like they were.
I should have known better than to sit here. That woman behind me couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket and now I have to listen to her as she bellows the whole way through the song service. I can’t even concentrate on the song, not that it matters because the song leader has already killed it by dragging the tempo. If he keeps this up, I am going to be snoring by the opening prayer. Singing is my favorite part of the service and now it feels like the whole Sunday has been wasted.
What is wrong with parents these days? How long do you let your baby scream before you decide to take him out of the auditorium? That is so rude. There is a whole room full of people trying to hear the sermon and one child is making it impossible. It is like nails on a chalk board and the kid’s mom is just sitting there doing nothing. When I was a kid, a baby was taken out of the auditorium for taking a loud breath, let alone screaming.
We need a new preacher. I am sitting here about to starve to death and it feels like the drums of war could not get this guy to hush. He has been going on for nearly forty minutes now. I think that is so inconsiderate of him when he knows there are people here who are ready to go to lunch. He just thinks he is a hot shot who can talk as long as he wants. I think I’ll talk to the elders about this.
Sadly, there are people who feel like this when they come to worship. They get so caught up in the little annoyances that they forget why they are really present. We do not come together on the first day of the week wondering how we will benefit. We should come with the intention of mutual edification (Hebrews 10:24). We should come ready to sing to God and our brethren, making melodies in our hearts (Ephesians 5:19). Most importantly, we should remember that we are there to serve God and please Him, and also to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made so that we could be fortunate enough to be there and call ourselves Christians.