we've been testing you
& you failed A sermon on Samuel's subpar supervisor Eli is a priest in over his head if ever there was one… Today God calls Eli’s charge , Samuel . Samuel, the boy . Samuel, the prophet-in- training . When God first calls Samuel, though, Samuel isn’t sure what’s happening. As a novice in all this God-business, he thinks it’s his supervisor calling. An innocent mistake for a trainee . Eli, however , should know better. After all, discerning the voice of God is the stuff his career is made of! When Samuel goes to Eli, though , it takes Eli not once , not twice , but three times to figure out what’s going on! And sadly, that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Eli’s blunders . There was the time Samuel’s mom, Hannah, was in the temple thanking God for giving her a child after she and her husband had been unable to conceive. When Eli saw Hannah praying, though , he thought she was drunk! Eli couldn’t tell the difference between a grateful parishioner an...