$#!+ Happens: Grace Extended
One Sunday I was going to church to lead the women’s Sunday school class. This was a DVD driven class and as a general rule I would screen the video before the class watched it so I could be prepared for the discussion questions. Well, this one particular Sunday, I arrived and was setting up and realized that I left the DVD at home in my DVD player. What I thought was a very seasoned Christian woman loudly and sarcastically exclaimed, ‘WELL THANK GOD WE NOW KNOW YOU ARE NOT PERFECT.’ This took me aback. Later on I will understand that this temperament was to be expected from this individual. But at the time it embarrassed me and stumbling through that class was one of the more difficult hours of my christian teaching experience. After the class, another woman, very sweet lady, gave me a piece of advice. She said, “There will always be people like that, looking to find your faults and point them out to you like it is a reason to celebrate....