NOT TOO CLOSE TO GOD
One parishioner complained about her pastor’s constant harping on the theme of “drawing nigh unto God.” She confessed, “I don’t want to get close to God. I just want to get over in a corner and sneak into heaven quietly. I don’t want to be a saint. I just don’t want to go to hell.” The pastor responded, “I can’t believe what I’m hearing.” “I can explain it easily,” she said. “When I started the ninth grade I set my heart on finishing high school with straight C’s and I did. You see, if you fail you have to repeat, and I wanted out. But if you start making A’s people begin to expect things of you.” “It’s exactly like that with God,” she continued. “If you’re too bad you’ll go to hell and I don’t want that. But if you’re too good he’ll send you to India and I don’t want that either.”
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