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Esther sat at the back of Victory’s auditorium feeling as if blinkers had been ripped off her eyes. The music was the same. The service was the same.
But she herself was no longer the same.
As usual, the music ended abruptly and the spotlight snapped on, placing her father at the centre of a pool of light. Impressive, but where was the humility of John the Baptist who’d said, ‘Jesus must become greater, I must become less.’ Her father was the centre of this show, not the one who should be. In fact, Jesus had barely been mentioned and they were thirty-five minutes into the service.
The Bible reading was Hebrews 11. Her father had chosen one verse, ‘Without faith it is impossible to please God … he rewards those who earnestly seek him.’ Sure, the preacher was allowed to focus on a sin
