Preparing The Final Plagues

Preparing the Final Plagues
Revelation 15.1-8

What is it that attracts people to the Christian message? What is it that draws them to worship the God whom Christians call ‘father’? If you went round your local church and asked people that, you would (I suspect) get a wide variety of answers. Some will have been drawn in by the kindness and gentleness of a pastor, whether ordained or lay, who looked after them at a moment of crisis. Some will have gone to a meeting where they were able to express all kinds of questions and doubts and where they were received with courtesy and respect, and given such answers as were available – but it will be the courtesy and the respect that has done the trick. Others again may have found themselves at a major turning point in their lives and, not knowing where else to go for guidance, may have come to the church and found more than they expected...