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The Living Room

7/17/2014

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I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a little bit country. And, being a little bit country, you grow up with a different kind of lingo. As a child I grew up calling our “living” room the “front” room. This was because it was the room that was at the front of the house. It was the first room, and often the only room, that visitors would see.  This room set the impression for the house, so it was always clean. The rest of the rooms in the house (except for the bathroom) could be in total chaos, but not the front room!

However, in today’s conversations, the word “front” often implies a different meaning. A “front” is a cover or disguise for another activity, especially something disreputable. This gives new meaning, now, to the “front” room. Or does it? When I give it a little more honest thought, I realize that the front room is actually that – the room in which the front takes place! The front room gives the impression to visitors that everything in your house is decent and in order, and masks the reality of the confusion taking place in the private rooms, which are the ones most utilized! The front room hides the bedroom battles! It disguises the disgust in the den! It covers the cussing in the kitchen! The front room gives all who visit, the appearance that the occupants of the house, have it all together!

Many of us who come to church today, rather than assembling in a living room – a room of life, a room of living – are gathering in a front room! We are unwilling to reveal our wounds! We refuse to let others see our brokenness! We front! We pretend that we have it all together! We practice worshipping while wounded, and leading while bleeding! We are good at trying to give help, denying the fact that we need help ourselves!

Family, wounded people wound people! We can’t be healed if we can’t be real! Let’s choose, today, to end our relationship in the front room! Let’s go into the room of life! Let’s go into the room of unity, the room of healing, the room of wholeness! Let’s be honest and real with one another! Come! Join me in the Living Room!


8 Comments
Lady Yda Aguilar, Daughter & Princess of the ONE TRUE KING!
7/17/2014 03:10:40 pm

This is deep Pastor, but so real....... Fronts are not what God sees but a disguise of what we want others to see.

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Lady Yda
7/17/2014 03:12:11 pm

Ops! Fronts are what God sees

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Pastor Bill
7/17/2014 03:20:06 pm

No correction necessary, Lady Yda. God DOESN'T see fronts because He always sees through them! He always sees the reality in our situations, even when we fail to acknowledge what's real! We cannot hide anything from God! He knows our hearts better than we do!

LiQuita Meriwether
7/17/2014 03:29:01 pm

Amen.. I Love this.. Lord let me live in the living room.. I need this.. Amen..

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Arlene Fitzgerald
7/18/2014 04:24:52 am

That was a new way of looking at what's going on in someone's life and I feel like that just hit home and it actually fits me thank you Paster Stubblefield

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NATASHA GONZALES
7/18/2014 12:25:46 pm

Hmm!
Wow!
You know this was really meant for me to see. I am so tired of being in the"Front room" !!
I want to be in the " living room" seems like no matter how much I pray and desperately want to be in the living room I'm trapped in the front room. Tired sick and tired of the damn front room. I WANT OUT!!!

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NATASHA GONZALES
7/18/2014 12:27:14 pm

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natalie cooper
11/21/2015 04:24:25 pm

I remember this sermon , you did this at Wayland Baptist university and I must say to hear u say these words rings in my heart and mind. As I'm reading this it took e back to that chair I sat and I jst remember how powerful your voice rang in that room. Thus has truly touched me again jst reading it. It has so much meaning to it and so much for me to think on b/c it makes me wonder is that me if so I have some thorough cleaning to do. Again thanks for reminding me how powerful this is

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