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As a child of the 80s and 90s, I grew up watching Saturday Night Live. One of my favorite skits was Wayne’s World. Two wannabe rockers, living in their mom’s basement, with long hair, ripped jeans, and catch phrases only a teenager could love. The skit eventually became a movie (like every SNL skit in the 90s) and lives on today through GIFs and memes.

If you’ve ever had the “opportunity” to participate in a trial in a court of law, perhaps as a juror, you’ve heard a lot of talk and instructions about different types of evidence. There is documentary evidence, there can be physical evidence, and there is always testimony or spoken evidence.

It takes, on average, 4 minutes to read one of these blog posts about the Word of God. Why is that useful information? If the time to read it is too long, do you skip it? Too much work? Too much commitment? If it’s that long, it must be too boring?

Today, I’m writing a paper with a heavy heart for our churches, having just learned of another pastor’s fall from the pulpit because of sexual immorality. Both locally and nationally, our fellowships are awash in the secret sins of sexual immorality. Extra-marital affairs, sexual relationships involving pastors abusing their positions of authority, pornography addictions, unchecked lust (mental adultery), and a myriad of other varieties. It’s in the pews, it’s in the pulpits, it’s everywhere. And I think many of us think we’re getting away with it. We think we can mock God in secret places while putting on a good show in public.

We each relate to Jesus according to the individual ways God created us to uniquely worship Him in the great diversity of the Church. This tapestry of worship is part of the beauty of the Bride who was hand-picked by God and who Jesus is gathering to Himself.