A CLEAN CHURCH
Have you ever had a difficult time motivating your custodian — or the members of your church for that matter — to keep the church clean? It seems that others have had even a more difficult time than we have in doing just that. Consider these words that reveal the frustrations of dirty churches that the revivalist Charles Finney experiences over a hundred years ago: The house of God should be kept as clean as you would want your own house to be kept. Churches are often kept excessively slovenly. I have seen them where people used so much tobacco and took so little care about neatness that it was impossible to preach with comfort. Once in a protracted meeting, the thing was charged upon the church, and they had to acknowledge it, that they paid more for tobacco than they did for the cause of missions. They could not kneel in their pews, and ladies could not sit without all…
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