The Elder was making the elder's comments when a computer glitch happened that he couldn't ignored. The Preacher was not in the building for some reason. But was remotely working on the computer. I had a laptop and was sitting on the stage (I don't know why). I got the laptop to do something as the projector but didn't know why it happened or what to do about it. It was showing code.
The screens got to the point where they were showing the same number. The Elder thought it was the number for attendance. But it was seven thousand something and the room only holds about five hundred so that didn't make sense.
I was trying to figure out what to do next. I suddenly looked up and there the Elder was standing on the edge of the baptistry screaming for some woman about mildew behind the projector screen, he was totally panicked and irrational. He wanted it fixed right then.
It seemed that he thought the mildew caused the computer problem. I looked at the audience, they were getting restless. There was a girl I knew in Abilene on the first row. I could tell by her face that she didn't care about the mildew she had personal business. I stood up and was opening my mouth to get someone's attention when I woke up. Even though I was out of the dream I still delivered my speech to no one in particular:
"Hey! The computer glitch and the mildew are unrelated. They are distractions. Humans have functioned thousands of years, millions even, without computers. If the building really is unsafe we have a perfectly good parking lot to meet in. We shouldn't focus on distractions they're none of our business. God's work is. We should be calm people unaffected by panic."
I think I know what this means.
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