{"id":8286,"date":"2022-01-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=8286"},"modified":"2022-01-09T12:47:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T17:47:46","slug":"a-sermon-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/a-sermon-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sermon to Remember!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"A Sermon to Remember! 1\/26\/22\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=vyy5n-1174aec-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=auto&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One Sunday a large church invited a guest priest to offer the mass and to preach.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he got up to preach, he said,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cThere are three points to my sermon today.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>  Some people yawned when they heard this. They had heard this many times before and figured they would be quite bored by the time he finally got to the end of point three.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cMy first point is this: Today there are about two billion people who are starving in our world because of a lack of food.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;The reaction in the pews was much the same, since they had heard that kind of statement many times before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cMy second point,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> he said. People sat up and started to listen. He was already on the second point.\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cMy second point is that most of you don\u2019t give a damn!\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The priest paused for a moment as gasps and rumblings flowed through the congregation.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cMy third point is that the real tragedy among Christians today is that many of you are now more concerned that I said \u2018damn\u2019 than you are that I said two billion people are starving to death.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;He then left the pulpit and sat down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The whole sermon took less than a minute. It is in many ways one of the most powerful sermons ever given. 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