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Why ruin a perfectly good opportunity to talk about the things of God with one's family?
| Rev. Winzer, I guess that I don't understand the response. Wouldn't such a liturgy promote talking about the things of God? | It promotes mindless religious action and quenches spontaneous, interested conversation. |
Around my former minister's dinner table on a Sabbath afternoon his family would criticise his sermon that morning. On one occasion, his oldest son proposed cutting his wages by one-third that week, because he only preached on 2 of th 3 points in his sermon.
Indeed, I was visiting him at his new congregation (Dervock, Co. Antrim) two Sabbaths ago when he preached on the sixth commandment that morning in which he condemned gluttony. His wife then subsequently ensured that he practiced what he preached by only giving him small portions of food at lunch.