Today I missed the morning service(I was not taking it) because I had a friend call me to say she had toothache and could I take her to the city twenty miles away to get treatment. Obviously I said "yes." So instead of a quiet hour contemplating the word of God with like minded folk I was driving and wondering where I would park and where exactly the dentist was. Instead of contemplating, I was putting the word of God into action, by loving my neighbour. Would God have been pleased if I had said, "I can't take you, I have to go to church." No, He would not have been pleased. I once knew of a farmer who if his cattle got into someone else's field on a Sunday, he would refuse to go and move them. Of course, he was getting a free feed for them at someone else's expense. He brought christians into disrepute by that action. It is easy to make excuses not to help our neighbour that look as if we are doing something good, but God sees through our duplicity...