Distracted

Have you ever been distracted by another person while sitting in the worship service on Sunday morning?  Yeah, me too.  I found this post, titled "Oh, Behave! Conduct Worthy of the Gospel in Corporate Worship" to hit close to home.  Here's how it begins:

Other Christians. Can't do corporate worship without them, and yet sometimes it feels like we can't really do corporate worship with them either. 

How nice would it be if everyone would just mind their manners in weekend worship? So thinks our old self. 

Let's admit it. We're tough on others, easy on ourselves. We assume others should give us the benefit of the doubt---which is the very thing we don't give to others.

She's the reason I'm distracted, the old self tells us. 

If he weren't singing so loud---and so off key . . .  

If they would just get off their iPads and smart phones. I'm sure they're all doing emails, or social media, rather than looking at the Bible text or taking notes.

We love to blame our neighbor, or the worship leader, for our inability to engage in corporate worship. But the deeper problem usually belongs to the one who is distracted. Few things are more hypocritical than showing up to a worship gathering of the Friend of Sinners and bellyaching that other sinners showed up too.

I highly recommend clicking over to read the full thing, which includes "a few suggestions for how to think well of and for others in corporate worship."