Every churchgoer knows about the “back door” –a kind of secret exit plan people sometimes use when the service is over (especially if it went long) in order to avoid the pastor, the greeting line, or an upcoming fellowship event or congregational meeting. When I was growing up, our church had a convenient “side” door that led right from the sanctuary to the cemetery walkway to the left of the church. If the line down the aisle toward the front door where the pastor stood to greet people as they exited grew too slow and long, people would begin to inch quietly toward the left through the pews and then silently exit out of the side door, cross the cemetery, and get to the parking lot before everyone else. Exiting through the “back door” was a kind of cop out in a sense though. Those who got …
Shut the Back Door!
John 10:1-10
John 10:1-10
Sermon
by Lori Wagner
by Lori Wagner
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