One of the tragedies of people being cold and indifferent spiritually is that they spread their spirit everywhere and to everyone.
Let me illustrate. I was talking with a fellow pastor one day and he mentioned a “bucket committee” in his church. I replied, “Bucket committee? I have never heard of such a thing. I thought our church had every committee that a church could have. We have 28 standing committees, two lying committees, and one dead committee. But we sure don’t have a bucket committee.”
He replied, “Oh, yes you do. Every church has one. It is a self-appointed committee. Every time somebody gets fired up they throw a bucket of water on him to cool him off.” I knew then what he meant. We not only had such a committee...