Chapter 5 - Page 50 - Building A Village

   The next day, no workers showed up for work. It was Sunday, and Jim had put a clause in all the contracts that gave workers Sundays off. He did this to ensure that all workers had one day a week in which to go to church or to spend with family. By choosing Sunday as the contracted day off, he assured that most workers would be off on their day of worship.

   Jim believed Saturday was God’s holy day, but most people went to church on Sunday. According to the Bible, God had sanctified and made the seventh day of the week holy. It seemed strange to Jim that, in Old Testament days, Saturday had been the day of worship, and in the days of the New Testament, most people worshipped on Sunday. Did Satan somehow trick the whole world into making God’s holy day, Saturday, a day of eating, drinking, and drunkenness?

   Jim believed Saturday was the day God sanctified, but he had one philosophy: Believe in the name of Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be saved. Jim had been baptized in a Baptist church that worshipped on Sunday. In Jim’s opinion, any church that taught that Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins could lead souls to heaven.

   Nevertheless, Jim had no transportation; he knew he couldn’t go to church this Sunday, and he felt bad about that. This was the first Sunday since he’d become a Christian that he would miss church.

   Jim sat in the doorway of his trailer and created a mental picture of God sitting on his throne. “Father,” he prayed, “Please forgive me for my sins and have mercy on my soul.” Jim started every prayer with those words. “Father, please forgive me for not going to church this morning and for not having the foresight to arrange transportation.”