The Full Pew.

       In church this morning, the sermon was all about sinners. Everybody who goes to church is a sinner. I'm not saying that's good or bad, I'm just saying I'm one of the sinners and sometimes that's fun. Not that I'm saying fun is good or bad. Or that sinning, when it's fun, is good. Sometimes it's one and sometimes it's tuther. I will admit that often I have fun and sometimes it's good and sometimes it just might not be so good. But while you're in church, sinning is frowned on.
       Another thing I'm not saying is that those who don't go to church are therefore all good. Some are good and some aren't quite so good. So you see, now everybody who doesn't go to church can claim to be one of the good ones while regular church-goers can claim those non attendees are all the bad ones. Everybody is happy. Well, all except the pastors who want to know why those folks aren't in the pews on Sunday morning.
       But getting back to the sinners, it's as though people go to church because they have sinned and want a reprieve so they can go back and sin some more. It's like having a sack that's full. You can't shop any more until you go home and empty the sack. At least that seems to be the way we act. Now I realize it sounds a little funny saying it like this, but then isn't that pretty much the way we all act? Come on, be honest now. It's like making the same New Year's resolution every year and then breaking it within the first week or two, but you go back every new year and make the same promise to yourself.
       I suspect that some of those folks that don't go to church think they have figured out that they can be good without going to church. Or maybe bad if they don't go to church to get rid of the bad stored up. After all, if you're only gonna get bad on Monday and stay that way until Saturday night, maybe it would be better for them to just stay bad. After all, they think they're having fun all the time. Of course none of this covers those of us who just want to be seen.