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I'm finally finishing up Larry Crabb's The Papa Prayer. (My daughter, Sarah, had taken it to school with her right before I finished it. We used to "fight" over who was going to get to the new World Magazine first when she was still home as well. I miss that!)

I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this book... wow! Good stuff!! In the chapter I was reading last night, Crabb was discussing the account of Jesus cursing the fig tree which had leaves, the evidence of life, but no fruit. This was Crabb's take on that account:

Listen to what I believe was going on inside Jesus: "My Father made people for Himself. He feels great pleasure when His children come to HIm to find the fullness they desire. But people have become like the fig tree: lots of leaves but no fruit. Lots of religious activity, lots of people crowding into big buildings to hear the hot celebrity preacher, lots of concern for doing church right that's causing division, but only a few people who want nothing more than to come to Him. (p. 157)

That whole paragraph is outstanding, but I was especially riveted by the following line: "lots of concern for doing church right that's causing division..."

Whoa! What does that mean? I drifted off to sleep last night thinking about it and I'm still pondering. . . Several thoughts have come to mind, but I'm going to save them for another blog.

Anybody want to weigh in. . . what do you think?