Personal Narrative: Mupple Baptist Church

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I’m something you could call a common man. For the most part I live a quiet life and have two kids and a wife. Just like everyone else I have special aspects in my life as well as talents and traits too, but I prefer to keep that to myself because there is nothing special about bragging on oneself. I am what you could call a very religious man and take it to heart when I see the church is falling apart and the light of God is out of the equation.

“Donations! We take donations!” yelled the preacher of Mupple Baptist Church. Preacher Sill was the preacher for the past ten years and only wanted the church to grow bigger and better. Desperation was an understatement you could say about it. Though it wasn’t exactly the good kind of growth. Preacher Sill, a middle aged man, around forty-five and after the past couple years of preaching felt the need to change. To him no one seemed to be coming to services and if they did the numbers were …show more content…

And with that as other Sundays came and went past there were more people that just filled the empty spaces but their attention was definitely not all there. Questions about wifi passwords and what coffee drink was all they seemed to care about and the service was completely ignored. Preacher Sill’s heart didn’t even seem in it anymore. He would ramble and repeat himself trying to get the message across but rather talk about new materialistic things.
Beaufort taught the Sunday school and Bible study and one day noticed that fewer people were attending but that didn’t stop him from praying. Nothing changed for him.. Out of the kindness of his heart he prayed for those who didn’t take all this seriously and that all of this nonsense would stop in it

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