Series: Seeing God More Clearly in 2020

When you were a kid, did you ever create your own exclusive club? Only you and your best friends could be in the club, and everyone else was an outsider. You got to create the rules, the club name, the secret handshake. And you got to decide who you let into the club and who you kept out. It gave you a feeling of real power.

Rev. Will Nickles tells a story of when he was around seven years old, and his older brother started a secret club with a friend next door. Will’s brother and the friend made these elaborate plans for the club, and reminded Will every day that he couldn’t join.

Finally, Will broke down and begged them to join their secret club. And then he said the magic words, “I’ll do anything to join!” Don’t you know Will’s older brother wa…