An Interesting Story

I get this daily Newsletter from Lifeway. (Lifeway's the Baptist publishing arm.) It starts each message with a listing of today's readings from the Bible (to read the Bible in a year,) and also gives a bible verse and a short message and a prayer. I'm not a huge fan of this newsletter and often just read the Bible verse before deleting the rest, but this little story was buried in today's message, so I thought I'd share it with you:

A story is told of an occasion when Christmas Evans, the great Welsh preacher of a past century, was due to preach. Prior to the service the church was packed with people eager to hear the great orator.

As the service was about to begin, it was announced that Christmas Evans was unable to keep the engagement and a lesser-known preacher would take his place.

People began to show signs of leaving until the moderator said: "All those who have come to worship Christmas Evans may leave. All those who have come to worship God may stay."

No one left.

_{Everyday with Jesus - May 12 as published by Lifeway Newletters via email. A sample of the newsletter can be found here and the link to subscribe is in the fine print at the bottom of the page.}