Apprentice 2 Jesus

Silence is Golden… or Tis the Season

At a Bible study this week the conversation was all over the map, as they tend to be in this group. During this “season”, because we have some people involved in political offices, we have a LOT of political discussion. That, of course, seeps over to any passage of Scripture we might be reading together at the time.

After a session of making political stabs, complaining about one particular issue or another, and finding a way to actually read Scripture, we came to our prayer time. We went around the table and people gave their prayer requests. Mostly the prayer requests were for the election.

When it came to me I wanted to give thanks. I told them about our incredible Wednesday night when a nationally known youth speaker came to our service. We had new teenagers from all over the metro area. We also had teenagers from our own group who needed Jesus. I told them about the band, the message and the altar time, how so many came forward to give their lives to Jesus Christ.

The reaction?

Silence.

One guy asked, “So what is your prayer request?”

I can chalk it up to being the season, but it is so telling when we can spend two hours griping about politics and when one piece of good news about people coming to Jesus comes along, we don’t know what to say.

“God help us,” is what I say.