Praise God for the church nursery and Sunday school workers, for the young ones without babies themselves (and all of their energy), for the older couples who have raised their babies (and all of their calming certainty), for the other tired parents who take their turn so that they could
perhaps listen to the sermon next week.
What he was doing was leading; he was saying «this is where this community is going, where God has called us
to go, and there may be other churches that God has called
to just preach
sermons and have people come and
listen,
perhaps doing ministry outside the community.»