Today's Daily Lesson comes from Matthew chapter 23 verse 13:
13 "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in."
There is a mostly white, Southern country church I know of which some years ago suddenly found itself being visited by a black family who had moved into the little town. That this family would chose a white church to come and worship with was something of a surprise to many and still a shock to others. Soon the boy in the family wanted to be baptized. This was yet even more shocking to some -- namely a group of men in one of the Sunday school classes. These men got together and decided that if a black boy were baptized in their baptistery then they themselves just weren't going to come to church anymore.
Never again would that church see them -- neither on Easter nor on Christmas.
Let those with ears to hear let them hear.
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