Time, It's not on your side

Been a while since I blew off a little steam, so here goes. Why is it that so many people are consumed by time? Everyone has enough time for what they want to do but little time to invest in others. I find this especially true in a church setting. They will sit all day for their own particular ministry but any other ministry had better end on time! Of all the places I have traveled and worshiped the only place that there are "clock watchers" are in the American church. It is because we care so little for the Word or is it because we care too much for ourselves or maybe we have lost the art of relational time. I have come to like the places in the world where spending time together are more important than what a person has to do next. It comes off to me as people are so consumed with self that they really are not listening to what is being said but simply marking time until their next engagement. In Acts 20 Paul preaches until dawn and the people stayed and listened. Not because they didn't have anything else to do but because there was true hunger and thirst for the Word. There wasn't someone in the back of the room waving their hands pointing at the clock or pretending to sleep trying to make Paul wrap it up. They didn't leave that morning after listening all night complaining that Paul had gone long. And the guy who did fall asleep died, yes Paul brought him back to life but take from that lesson what you will on the dangers of not paying attention. The other reason people are so ready for it to be over is that they have not come to worship but to receive. They either have never been taught or have forgotten that church isn't about us, it is about God. We go to church not to "fill up" but to pour out. Pour out ourselves in worship only then can we "leave full". Our problem is that we go in full of self, expect to get more for ourselves, and then leave "on time" so that we can get to whatever we have to do next. Rant complete.