Let us not neglect our church meetings.
—Hebrews 10:25
“There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be . . . boastful, proud, abusive . . . ungrateful, unholy . . . unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God” (2 Tm 3:1–4).
Sounds like today’s mess, doesn’t it? It’s a bad, bad world.
But from the pew where I sat Sunday morning, I saw the opposite of bad—I saw good people who are nothing like Paul’s description.
Bad people polluted Asaph’s world. “When I tried to understand all this, it troubled me deeply,” he said, “till I entered the sanctuary of God” (Ps 73:36–37). When Asaph went to church, he saw a different picture.
So did I. In a bad, bad world, I was in a good, good place.
In our bad world, there are a lot of good people.