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Question: How seriously do you take the sermon? As you sit there in church on any given Sunday, do you take what is spoken and apply it to your life, or is it just something you listen to and promptly forget?  

One thing that we strive to do (and successfully, I think) is present a sermon that gives us all something we can grab hold of and actually use to help us through the long and winding road of life.  

But you know it and I know it: a lot of folks don't take it seriously enough.  

Today we have the tale of two church members who took a sermon very seriously. In fact, they took it too seriously!  

A buddy of mine, Brent Scott, who is a Sheriff's Deputy in Johnson County, Arkansas relates something that happened this week. It seems that one of his fellow deputies was dispatched to a local hospital where an individual had sustained some rather serious injuries in a fight. Indeed, his jaw was broken and immediate reconstructive surgery was required. He didn't want to press charges against the other fellow at first. However, that all changed when he was told how much this surgery was going to cost!  

But here's the kicker. Here's where it gets interesting. What were the two fighting so violently over?  

It turns out they were church members fighting over something the pastor had said at the previous Sunday's sermon. 

"Evidently," Brent says. "These two yahoos had disagreed over which of them the preacher was hinting about in one of his sermon illustrations. They both felt he had been speaking about the other, and how that person was living their life incorrectly. The solution to their disagreement was a wrestling match that warranted felony charges for one of the characters." 

Yes, pastors want the folks to take the sermon seriously, however in this case it appears that a disagreement over a sermon illustration has risen to the level of felony assault.   

You just can't make this stuff up! 

This is the Voice of One.