Week 23 - Quail Springs Baptist

We attended Quail Springs Baptist contemporary service this morning, which is sandwiched in between two traditional services. I’m not sure what their total attendance is, but this service was pretty full. It is a beautiful building inside and out. The décor is light and inviting with light streaming through beautiful stained glass windows. We sat off to the side a little towards the back and ended up right next to the pastor’s wife. It was interesting that she was sitting there in the middle of the church and not down front and center. I don’t know the reason for this, but she was very nice and welcoming. The message this morning was from Proverbs, one of my favorite books of the Bible. This was one of those sermons, it seemed, where the pastor had been dealing with a number of people involved in infidelity and decided it was time for a firm reminder to everyone of how God feels about that. He presented it in the context of “correction and protection—not condemnation.” But make no mistake, as he said “infidelity is stupid.” We’ve had those kinds of sermons before and while they may seem harsh initially, there was truth in what he was saying. It seems fidelity these days is a dying characteristic, not just fidelity in marriage, but in work, our friendships, with God. While I’ve never personally dealt with marital infidelity, I am sure I have been guilty of it in other areas of my life. God has something for everyone to hear even in sermons that we don’t particularly relate to. That in itself is an important lesson.