South Point UMC Bible Toolbox

When I was in Bible school, in fact wherever I am in regards to the Church. There seems to be two groups. There is one group when they open their Bible they find something, when they pray they meet God, when they suffer hardship they keep going, when they go to Church they find something in the service.

There is also another group. It seems strange but they can do all the same activities, they can read the Bible, pray, go to Church or whatever, and this is what hints me that the way to being on fire is not a series of actions, it is something else. For you see, they do all the same things but they complain that the service was boring, or they struggle staying awake. As they read the Bible they turn the page to see how much print they must read on the other side. They go to prayer but soon find their thoughts drifting off and they look back on the words and wonder if they have only said them before.

One group is hungry for God and they meet Him, the one is hungry only for ritual or knowledge or something else and thats all they get

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