Several years ago, The Daily Press carried a story about a man named Adolph Stec. His neighbors thought Mr. Stec had abandoned his little house and moved out of town. Some continued to cut his grass occasionally while others gathered his mail until the mailman began to skip the house because it looked so abandoned. Eventually work crews came out and cut off his utilities.
But it wasn’t until May 8, 2001 that he mystery of Adolph Stec was solved. Developers bought the house at tax auction, and they entered to inspoect the property. They discovered Mr. Stec’s almost completely decomposed body sitting in his living room chair. A newspaper was in his lap and a calendar was on the wall were both dated February of 1997. Mr. Stec had been dead in his house for more than four years, and no one had missed him! One of his neighbors said,
"He really wasn’t a very friendly man, not nice at all. So everyone just went on with their lives. He must have abandoned the place, we thought." How sad that someone could be so completely expendable, so totally dispensable!
I wonder how many Christians make thesmelves that dispensible at church. Sadly, church for many has become a place where you go to fulfill religious duties. It much more like a religious theater where holy things are observed than a spiritual family where holy relationships are made and mantained. May we come more and more to see Denbigh as our little logo suggests-- "God's Family Under the Cross."
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