WTF?

Imagine a church sanctuary filled with close to a thousand people. It's a Saturday night, and the church service has just begun.

In walks an obviously intoxicated, homeless man.

Drunk homeless guy proceeds to wander up, down, and all around the sanctuary looking for a seat. After several minutes, he finds one, tests it out; but when it wasn't to his liking he decides to roam the aisles once again looking for another seat.

Along the way, drunk homeless guy is loud. He smells bad. He's distracting the entire sanctuary.

After worship, for whatever reason, this individual chooses to leave the sanctuary. Several minutes later, he tries to return to the sanctuary only to find his entry blocked by an usher who refuses to let him back into the sanctuary for the teaching.

Drunk homeless guy asks why he can't go back in. The usher tells him that he is too disruptive. Drunk homeless guy replies, "You folks aren't very welcoming here." and he leaves.

He leaves.

We've had similar experiences with this church. Only our disruption was an overly talkative three year old child. We were asked to leave the sanctuary because our child's questions were disturbing those around us. And so we left. Just like drunk homeless guy, we left.

Was drunk homeless guy so disruptive that he should have been denied access to Saturdays' service? Not in my opinion.

It all just seems so wrong, so horribly and terribly wrong.

I cannot help but feel that this past Saturday night, Christ showed up in the form a drunk, homeless man and what did we do? We turned him away.

I do not know if I can conscience attending this church any longer.