Wicked Snakes Inside A Place You Though Was Dignified

  As comedian Jerry Sinfield pointed out, we only have a problem with hair when it comes off the head. We touch someone’s hair, even kiss them on the head, but when we find a hair on its own, it’s the most vile, disgusting thing.

I guess it comes down to having something where it is not supposed to be.

  I think that is why when people see sin in the church, they are so much more appalled than when they see it in other places. We encounter hypocrisy, pettiness, gossip, partiality, rudeness, and impurity every day in the world. Yet when it happens to people at church, they are more appalled.

  Because, like a hair in our food, they know it is not supposed to be there.

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

 Ephesians 5:3-4

  That is why we must be so careful as the faithful to keep these impurities far from us. People expect something better from us.

  And we should as well.