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https://churchanswers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Blog-Article-Picture-new-47.png1200628I had been a pastor for about ten months when the adult daughter of church members—a daughter who did not attend our church—stopped me for a brief conversation in a local grocery store. I had bought a home in that neighborhood a few months before. To my surprise, the daughter said to me, “I drive by your house on the way to work each day. I don’t know why, but I almost can’t help but look over there to see what’s up.” My guess is that her words reflected simple curiosity, but they sure sounded strange at the time. Later that day, I reflected on something I had not thought about much as a rookie pastor: people are watching us. We really are at times in the proverbial “fishbowl.” Right or wrong, that’s reality. This many years later, though, I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing for us.