Amen. Amen. If it is well with your soul, can you say Amen this morning? And I tell you, I love that song.
You guys can have a seat here today. Hey, it is good to see you. And I hope that that is your prayer. And I hope that that is your heartbeat today. That it is well with your soul.
Because here's what I'm going to tell you. If it's not, it can be this morning. And it can be before you leave here this morning. And that would be my prayer for you here today. Well, it is good to see you in church. If you're excited to be here, can you say Amen today? And I tell you, we could be in a lot of different places. And here we are right here in church this morning. And I'm grateful, grateful for that. And let me just say that if we've never met before, I know Pastor David mentioned our New Here card.
Let me encourage you once again to fill one of those out before you leave here today. We would love the opportunity just to get to know you a little bit more and to be able to connect a little bit more with you here today. I recognize we are in full-blown summer mode. And so there's people, well, some are in summer mode already on vacations and different things like that.
And I totally understand that. And we have quite a few more in the summer watching us online while they are away than that is here. And so, but it is good to see you. And we are excited that you are here. I'm excited about what God's doing in our church too. We got a lot of things going on over the summer. And Pastor David mentioned the summer hangouts.
I think those are great. And I think it's going to be just a fun way for you to get to know people. And let me just encourage you, if you're new to our church, this will be a great opportunity to build relationships.
And so let me encourage you to do that. VBS coming up, always a big thing. We got camps this summer for our kids ministry, for our student ministry. And we just got a lot of things happening over the summer that we are excited about. And that really accomplished the mission of why we exist as a church, which is to reach as many people as possible and to disciple them into becoming devoted followers of Jesus Christ. And that's what we're about. And that is our main, main objective and main mission of our church.
Well, listen, if you have your Bible, I'd love to invite you today to join me in the book of Numbers, the book of Numbers all the way back in the Old Testament here today, the book of Numbers, chapter number 20. Last week, we began a brand new series entitled Sinners Like Us. In fact, can we all say that together? Sinners like us.
And let's just make it a little bit more fun. Look to your neighbor either side and just say sinners like you. OK, sinners like you. And this series is a series that we started last week.
And so if you missed last week, you go online and you can tune in and catch up on the series. But one thing that is amazing to me and when you look throughout scripture, I've told you my story so many different times. If you're new, you might not know it, but I've been in church my entire life. So it's kind of like all I know is church as a kid. You know, we were in Sunday school learning about these different Bible characters and Bible stories and things like that. And here's what's amazing to me about scripture is the amount of dysfunctional people that God chose to use.
You ever notice that? And that gives us thank you. Lomax said hallelujah because the reason he said hallelujah is because Lomax is dysfunctional.
Aren't you? OK. And we all are. Everybody in here is dysfunctional. And every single one of us are sinners and every single one of us are flawed. And we all have problems.
We all mess up. We all doubt from time to time and different things. And here's what's amazing to me is in scripture, you read about character after character after character of these different people that God still reached and still used in spite of all of the flaws that they have in their life. And so last week we looked at our first sinner, which was Abraham.
And then this week we're going to look at our second one. We're going to look at the life of Moses, the life of Moses. Now, Moses is, you know, one of the like Abraham. He's one of the what we would call patriarchs of the faith. And and he's mentioned, you know, in the New Testament several different times. And so many of you might love some of the stories of Moses because some of his life have some of the most important stories in scripture and some of the most well-known stories of scripture.
And and so Moses is a very familiar guy. But I want to give you a little bit of background for jumping in Numbers chapter 20, because you'll understand contextually kind of where we find ourselves in Numbers chapter number 20. But from Numbers 19 to Numbers chapter 20, there is nearly a 40 year gap between those two chapters. It's very important that you understand that you say, why is there a gap?
Well, you're going to know why when I start explaining. But it goes back to Numbers chapter number 13. If you remember in Numbers 13, the children of Israel, Moses had led them out of Egypt. And so they they're safely out of Egypt. That's after the Red Sea, the whole deal.
Right. And and so they're they're out of there. And God had promised them way back to Abraham that he's going to give them a this land. And so as they come out of Egypt, they've been in Egyptian captivity for all these years. And now they are out and they come to this place with Moses and they come to a place called Kadesh.
This is Numbers 13. You can go back and read about it. And they come to this place called Kadesh, which is actually on the outer skirts of the promised land. So they were so close and they were right there about to go into the promised land. And they come to this place called Kadesh and they kind of set up camp there. And Moses, they sent some some people to spy out the land.
You remember this story? And and so they sent some people to spy out the land, to spy out the land. So they sent 12 people. And you know that, you know, 10 came back with a bad report.
There was a song in Sunday school back in the day about this. I remember it, but I'm not going to sing it to you. OK, but 10 came back with a terrible report and two came back with a good report.
You remember them, right? That was Joshua and Caleb. And well, the ones that came back with a bad report, they began to look at, you know, the people and they were told to spy out the land and look at, you know, to see if the land was plush, you know, for their crops to grow and different things to look at the people.
What kind of people are we dealing with in this land? And so when they come back, Joshua and Caleb have a great report. You know, they were trusting in God.
Their their eyes were focused on him and not the obstacles in front of them. But the 10 guys that came back that with a bad report said, man, the people there, they're big, they're giants. And it just doesn't look good. And this bad report spread throughout all of the nation of Israel. So this bad report spread throughout all the nation of Israel. So then the nation of Israel did not feel that they were ready to go into this land that God had had promised had promised them. And so so because of that, because of their lack of faith, God said that they would not be allowed into the promised land. So he said the whole generation, you guys cannot go into the promised land because you did not have faith in him and faith that God is bigger than the obstacles in front of you.
And so he said, you guys are going to die off. So what happened at that moment was that what we call the wilderness wandering years. They begin to wander in the wilderness and just time and time again before they could go into the promised land. So almost 40 years have passed and we come to Numbers chapter number 20. And so you can think, you know, 40 years, most of their generation had already died. And 40 years later, here's where we find ourself in Numbers chapter number number 20.
And here's what it says. Verse number one says, Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month, and the people abode in Kadesh. So notice they're in the same place that they were in Numbers 13 where they doubted God, they believed the bad report, and they're in this same place. So they come back and they're nearing the promised land and they come to this place of Kadesh and Miriam died there and was buried there.
Now, not going to spend a whole lot of time on this, but here's what I'll tell you. Is that chapter number 20 is really a dark day for the nation of Israel for a number of reasons. The first one, what you find here is Miriam, that's Moses' sister, Moses and Aaron's sister. She died, and then at the end of chapter number 20, Aaron dies. So Moses, right here at this one time, is experiencing grief and loss in a very short amount of time.
So he lost Miriam, he lost Aaron at the end of the chapter, and here in the middle, we're going to find that he personally struggled with things just like you and me. So Miriam died, verse 2, and there was no water for the congregation, and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. And the people chode, or they complained with Moses.
What else is new about that, right? They're always complaining, and they spake unto him saying, would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord. Why have you brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness that we and our cattle should die there? And wherefore have you made us to come up out of Egypt to bring us into this evil place? It is no place of seed or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates. There's not a Krispy Kreme in this community.
You can insert any type of foods you want because they were so discouraged. By the way, any time that we get discouraged, we begin to be unrealistic in the way that we complain, don't we? Like, really, sit back and think about this. They had been driven out of captivity in Egypt, and things were terrible in Egypt. So they were brought out. God had delivered them, and God had led them out through amazing plagues.
He had provided for them with manna and all these different things. And here they find themselves where they're without water, and they're complaining. And when they're complaining, they become crazy. They begin to say, wow, we should have just died with the generation that died before us.
Like, I wish that we could go back in Egypt. Why in the world would God deliver us out here and just place us into this wilderness experience? And they're so crazy and unrealistic, and they're noticing all the bad things, and they're discouraged, and they're frustrated about how life is in verse number 6. So Moses and Aaron, they went from the presence of the assembly under the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces, and the glory of the Lord appeared unto them. The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Moses, here's what I want you to do. Take the rod, verse 8, and gather thou the assembly together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, and it shall give forth water. Now it shall bring forth to them water out of the rock, so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink. So Moses, he took the rod from before the Lord as he had commanded him, and then Moses and Aaron, they gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, here now ye rebels. Rebels. If you look that word up in the Hebrew, it literally means disobedient.
And so he's looking at this, and he's like, hey, here now ye, ye rebels. Must we fetch you water out of this rock? So Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice.
The water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beast also. And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, because ye believe me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. Now, there's a lot happening here in this passage, and so I want you to see, like our series Sinners Like Us, how God uses sinners to accomplish His purposes.
And I'm thankful for that, because that gives you hope, and that gives you encouragement, and it gives me hope, and me encouragement that God can use us, and God can speak to us, and things like that, because Moses was a flawed man, and he had flaws like many of us. So just a little bit about his life. If you remember, Moses, he killed an Egyptian.
Do you remember that? He killed an Egyptian, and here's what I'll tell you. He killed an Egyptian because the Egyptian was beating up on one of his own people.
A Hebrew boy. So you could say, Moses kind of had justification for why he did what he did, because he went in and killed him, because this guy was beating up one of his own. So he killed an Egyptian, and he flees to the wilderness, and it was during the wilderness that he becomes a shepherd, and Moses, as he is being a shepherd in the midst of the wilderness, that God spoke to him out of the burning bush.
Do you remember that? And God spoke to him. And was Moses just quick to say, God, I'll do whatever you want me to do. I'll go wherever you want me to go. I'll obey anything that you tell me to do. No. What did he do? He completely denied everything. He's like, man, God, you got the wrong guy. I can't speak.
I have a stuttering problem. There's no way that I could ever lead your people out of Egypt. My people out of Egypt.
There's no way that this can happen. And so he doubted who God was right from the very, very start. And as we follow his life, Moses, time and time again, he would doubt God, and God would have to remind him of who he was throughout his life. But here as we come to Numbers chapter number 20, we learn and we really see that Moses had an anger problem, didn't he?
Right? He had an anger issue. I mean, not only was he a murderer, he killed this Egyptian earlier on in his life, but here he lost his mind. Here in our story, God gave him specific instructions. Specific instructions. And by the way, sometimes God gives you and I specific instructions, and here's what he wants. He wants you to obey the instructions the exact way that he gives them to you. The exact way. So he says to Moses, he says, Moses, here's what I want you to do.
The people need water. I'm going to show myself mighty so that God gets all of the glory for it. And everybody is pointing to God. So here's what I want you to do, Moses. I want you to go up and I want you to speak verbally.
It's all you got to do. Just speak to this rock, this boulder, if you would, that was in the midst of the camp. Just speak to it and I'm going to send water out of that and everybody's going to know who God is and how God is behind them and for them and goes before them and he provides for them and everything. The eyes were supposed to be on God throughout this whole thing. So Moses is angry.
Now here's what I'll tell you. Did Moses kind of have a right to be angry? He had just dealt for 40 years leading the nation of Israel through the wilderness and he's frustrated. He's heard their complaints. He's heard them be discouraged.
He's listened to them talk about all these different things and now here they are. They've come so far and God has led them so far and here they are once again saying, man, we should just die. Or why in the world would God deliver us out of Egypt just to let us die here in the wilderness? Things Moses has heard time and time again. And so Moses finally had had it. He had had it.
He was at his wits end. Think about it. Parents, you know what I'm talking about, right? I mean, it's the summer. Your kids are going to be at your house a lot more than they are during the school year and you tell them no and the first time you say it real calmly. You're like, no baby, no sweetie, no whatever. And you say that and you're all calm and everything but by the end of the day, you're like Moses. You're like, listen here, rebels.
You disobedient kids. You're yelling at them and you're going nuts and you're freaking out and the whole deal. I kind of feel like that's how Moses was here. Moses had absolutely had it with the nation of Israel. And so here, he was trying to do right. He was trying to obey God but yet in the midst of this, he still, even though he had a reason to be angry probably a righteous reason to be angry at the nation of Israel here in this text, we find that he just loses his mind. So what he did was he took his staff, his rod and he just in anger smote the rock. Not once but twice.
Anger just smote the rock. And here's what's amazing. God still gave them water. It's amazing that even though we lose our minds and even though we're flawed and even though we sin and even though we fall short yet God here in this text still used and provided for them.
But here's what I want to talk about for just a few moments about this story. Moses, in front of the whole nation of Israel he kind of lost sight of who he was representing here in this text. He lost sight of who he was representing. You see, he was supposed to be their leader and as a spiritual leader, he was supposed to represent God. He was supposed to point people to God. He was supposed to lead people to God. He had one purpose. It wasn't about him.
It wasn't about him at all. He had one purpose to just send people in the direction of God. And here's what I want you to know about your life and my life. Our lives represent something. Like every single one of you represents something. Like when you leave here and the world looks at you you represent something. The question is, because our lives are all on display for the whole world to see, the question is who are you representing? The question is who when you leave here are you representing?
To your family, to your children, to your spouse to your co-workers, to the people that maybe are under you your classroom or whoever. Whatever it is that you go, your school, your classmates you're representing something and you're representing someone in everything that we do. And here Moses was there in front of the whole congregation of Israel.
The whole nation of Israel was with him. And here he lost sight of who he represented here. Here's the big idea that I want to look at here today for just a few moments from this text is this. As followers of Jesus we are to represent Christ in all that we do and say. As a follower of Jesus you are supposed to represent Christ to the world in all that you do and say. Now I want you to understand when we talk about this, that's a big responsibility. It is.
Let's just call it what it is. There's some pressure with that, right? Because it means that when we leave here we are supposed to take who Christ is the righteousness of Jesus that has been placed into your life and placed into my life at the moment of salvation. We're supposed to take that with us as we go. And so as we go the people at work, you're supposed to represent Christ to them. You're supposed to represent Christ in everything that you do to everyone around you.
The New Testament would say it this way. In fact the Apostle Paul when he was writing to the church at Corinth, here's how he said it in 2 Corinthians 5.20, he said that we are ambassadors for Christ. We are ambassadors for Him. In other words, we are there to represent Christ to the world. We are to reflect and represent Him to everybody that we come in contact with. So let's get really personal with how this looks in day to day. If you don't get the promotion at work and you lose your mind, is that a good reflection of Christ?
Right? Or if you post things that are inappropriate on social media, is that a good reflection of Christ? If you treat the employee at the restaurant that you're going to go to at lunch today disrespectfully, is that a good reflection of Christ?
When your kids disobey, do you yell and berate them or do you lovingly and calmly correct them? Are you a good reflection of Christ? And so you've got to think about everything that we do.
How we do business, how we raise our kids, how we treat our spouse, how we behave when things don't go our way. The point is this, as followers of Jesus, you're an ambassador for something bigger than your life. You're an ambassador for the one who gave you life in the first place. You are a representative of Him. And when we think about being a representative of Christ and reflecting Him in all that we do and say, I think there's a couple of practical applications about what that looks like here because Moses clearly in this moment of weakness and we all have been where Moses is, right? We've all lost our mind and had to go to people and apologize the whole deal. We've all been there. There's not a person in this room that hasn't been where that is. And Moses, that's where he was, but I think there's a couple of things that we can remember when it comes to representing Christ to those who are around us.
The first thing is this, especially if you're taking notes. Representing Christ requires you and I to die to ourselves. Representing Christ, it requires us to die to our ourselves. Here, Moses started to make things about him. Started to make things about him. And he started to take it personally that the nation of Israel, when they were doubting and complaining Moses thought that they were doubting and complaining him. But who they were doubting and complaining had nothing to do with Moses at all. They were doubting and complaining God. And Moses took everything personally, so Moses thought it was about him. So Moses made this whole situation more about him than it could be about God.
And here's what I want you to know. In your life, when you go to work, when you go to your neighborhood, when you are with your family, when we represent Christ, here's what it means. It means that we have to die to ourself. In Scripture, that's a regular thing that we are commanded to do. I mean, Paul in 1 Corinthians 15, he said that, I die daily.
I die daily. In other words, this is a daily discipline of the life of a Christian that we wake up every single day and we die to ourselves. Meaning that we lay aside our will for God's will. It means that we lay aside our agenda for His agenda. It means we lay aside our pride for Him to be known. And we lay aside our way for His way. That's what it means that every single day you make your life not about yourself, but about Him.
And that's what it means to die daily. I mean, Galatians chapter 2, Paul would say this, I am crucified with Christ. In other words, like, I have died to myself so that I could live out this new life in Christ. Familiar passage, Acts chapter number 1.
When Jesus was ascending up into heaven, He left the mission that He had called to do to the church and He wanted to work through the church so that His mission could be done. And so here's what He said in Acts 1. He said, You shall receive power and after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you. You shall be witnesses unto Me.
Like, that's your role. That's your job and your home and at your workplace and everywhere that you do life, when you go to the restaurant, when you go to any store in the world, you are a witness of Him. And here's the connection between witnesses and dying to yourself. The word witness in the Greek is actually a word martus. It's where we get the word martyr.
It's the exact way that we get the word martyr. So what He's saying is this, is that when He says ye shall be witnesses, what He means is this, is that you will be martyrs for Me. Maybe not literally, but you will be a martyr for Him spiritually. In other words, when He says you shall be witnesses, you are to leave here and die to yourself so that you can live unto Christ. That's your main role. That's your main objective in the life that you live and in your home and in your family.
You must die to yourself. That's what representing Christ means. The second thing about representing Christ would be this. Representing Christ points people to the glory of God.
It points people to the glory of God. I mean, here in verse number 10, you see Moses and Aaron, they gathered and he's mad and he's angry. And so he gathered them together in front of this rock, right? And he said here now ye rebels. You've got to say it kind of gruff because he's angry, he's mad, he's frustrated. And he had every right to be, but he says you disobedient rebels. And then look at what he says. Must we, must we fetch you water out of this rock?
Here's the problem. Is when he's yelling at them, he's losing his mind with the nation of Israel, he makes it all about himself. He says must we? Literally what he's saying is there. Nation of Israel, congregation, the assembly, must Aaron and I get you water out of this rock?
And if you remember, here's the deal. All he was supposed to say was speak to the rock and let the water flow so that all the glory went to one person. And here Moses is in the midst of that. He's making it all about himself. He's making life all about himself. He's making this situation all about himself.
Like he had anything to do with it to begin with. You see, what God wants you to understand is that you have nothing to do with your life. Representing Christ, your job, your role in life is to point people to the glory of God. Is to point people to the glory of God in all that you do and say. You see, a proper representation of him gives him glory in all things.
Let me say it this way. You cannot properly represent him, Christ, and get personal glory at the same time. If you're striving for personal glory and his glory at the same time, it can't happen.
They don't work together. No, when you go after his glory and you realize that your life is all about representing him in all things and in front of all people and in every behavior and in every action and every reaction, when you look at that, when you go after the glory of God, here's all that means is that you die to yourself. That your glory has nothing to do with anything. That you live your life for him. Number three, representing Christ focuses on our eternity. It focuses on our eternity. So when we look at representing Christ, not only does representing Christ point people to the glory of God, that's what that means.
Representing Christ, it requires us to die to ourselves, but not only that, when you represent Christ, it means that you just focus on something that is eternal, not something that is earthly. You see, here in this text, because of Moses' sin, because of Moses' flaw, there was an earthly reward that he missed out on, right? Moses could not go into the promised land, which is so discouraging.
He had led the nation of Israel so far and if you look at this from an earthly perspective, you would think all was lost for Moses. Is that really how God works? That God's just going to punish us and that's it and just drop us and everything? And so when you look at this from an earthly perspective, you would think how in the world could God, doesn't his good outweigh his bad, right? And you kind of look at that and that, but remember, when we represent Christ, you're not focused on the earthly. You're not focused on what is here, you're focused on what is there. And you're focused on eternal reward, not earthly pleasures and not earthly treasures, you're focused on eternal treasures. Because what you have to understand about this story that's so important to this is, and we don't have time to turn here, but in Deuteronomy chapter number 34, you find that at the very end of Moses' life, God takes Moses up into this high mountain.
You remember this story? Mount Nebo. And it's on this plain of Abiram. And he takes him on Mount Nebo. And he goes up there and he takes Moses, and remember, I bet you, Moses, this was so discouraging for him because Moses knew that if he hadn't have lost his mind and if he hadn't have sinned and he hadn't let his flesh get the best of him, that he would be able to physically go into the promised land and experience that, right?
And you would think that, man, that's it, but remember, we don't live for the earthly rewards, we live for heavenly rewards. So God, at the very end of Moses' life, he takes Moses up on a Mount Nebo. And he has him look over the promised land.
And he sees it. And he gets to look out at how amazing the land is that the nation of Israel is going to inhabit. And if you think about this from an earthly perspective, this would be so discouraging. But God was teaching Moses something about living for eternity and not things that are earthly. So as Moses is looking out at the promised land from Mount Nebo, what happens in Deuteronomy chapter number 34 is that God did not cut him off or say, Moses, I'm done with you, you made a mistake, and so it's over.
No, you know what happens on Mount Nebo? God takes Moses home. As he's looking out at the promised land, it says that Moses died and God buried him right there on Mount Nebo. You say, what's the picture here?
The point is this. He's telling Moses, he's saying, Moses, look, look at what I'm going to give, what I've promised. All these years, what I've promised the nation of Israel, it's right here. And you can imagine Moses how discouraging this must be because Moses, he can't go see it. And so he says, but Moses, listen, this promised land is amazing, but it doesn't even begin to compare to what I have for you beyond this promised land. And so what he's saying is this, he said, Moses, this promised land, it's good, it's about the best you can get from an earthly perspective, but what I'm going to give you is a more glorious promised land, a more glorious promised land, a better promised land.
It reminds us of this. Here's what I think the Scriptures all really trying to get us to do, and I think this story is it. You see, the Bible is constantly trying to pull us away from what is horizontal, the things that this world has to offer and the earthly things, and point us to what is vertical. And I think that's what God was telling Moses here. He wasn't trying to show him the promised land and just say, you see what you missed out on, Moses?
Right? God's not a God that does that. No, he was trying to say, listen, yes, there's punishment and repercussion for our sin, but listen, I'm going to give you something far greater, Moses. What you have in me is far greater than anything this world has to offer. And what he's trying to tell you and me is that as we represent Christ in our world, and as we reflect Christ in our world and in the circles that God has given us, don't forget, don't make life all about what is here. Because what we have there is far greater than anything this world has to offer. It far outweighs anything that this world has to offer. Don't get too attached to earthly rewards, because as Christians, our ultimate prize, our ultimate treasure, our ultimate home, and our ultimate reward, it's not here.
It's there. And for us, as we represent Christ, we have to keep that into perspective. We have to keep that into perspective. That has to be what drives us, is that we're not laying up treasures here, we're laying up treasures there. And what we get in our reward in heaven far surpasses anything this world has to offer. You're an ambassador for him. You're a witness to him.
You're a representative of him. Which means, we must die daily. Every single day you've got to die to yourself. You've got to point people in the direction of the glory of God and not make life all about you. That's really where we go wrong a lot of times. We make life all about us. And we think it's all about us and us getting the glory.
And here's what I'll tell you. It has nothing to do with us at all. That was Moses' issue. He's like, must we fetch water for you?
No, Moses. You had absolutely nothing to do with the water to begin with. You did nothing except for lose your mind and lose your witness in front of the nation of Israel.
You did nothing to get water out of that rock. See, his whole motive was to point people to God, and Moses lost sight of that. And so for us, we must not only dot ourself, we must realize that life is about heaven and that eternal reward not for things for here, but we must represent Him.
So my question is to you very quick, very practical today. Who are you representing? Who are you representing? Who do your kids see when they see you? Who do your co-workers see when they see you? What about your neighbors when they see you? When you go out and about to just do life, the places you eat, the places you shop, the places you go, who do they see?
Who are you representing? Because for us, our activity, our actions, our reactions, our tempers, our words, our focus, everything that we do in life should point people to Him, because our lives are on display. Our lives are on display, so while they're on display, why not display the one who gave us life to begin with?
D.L. Moody said it this way, he said, one out of a hundred people will read the Bible, but ninety-nine out of a hundred people will read the Christian. He said, listen, one out of a hundred people is going to read the Bible, but ninety-nine out of a hundred will read the Christian. And so for us, we're supposed to represent Him in all that we do and say. So our challenge is this, may our lives represent Christ in a way that points everyone to Him and away from us. Your Christianity should be visible for the whole world to see. Can we bow our heads for prayer?
