THE FIRST OFFICIAL ACT
A seminary president told this story: When candidates are ordained into the ministry, they have one thing to do in the service. At the conclusion of the worship, the candidate stands, walks up the steps into the chancel, turns and gives the benediction. That is their first official act as an ordained pastor. One candidate stood, approached the steps, and ascended. But on the first step, he stepped inside the hem of his robe. Now, the obvious thing to do would be to step back out of the robe…but he didn’t. The poor candidate kept climbing the steps…all the time walking up the inside of his robe. Each step made him smaller as he was forced to “duck walk” up the inside of his own robe. Finally, at the top of the steps, looking like a dwarf in a white tent, he turned around. His robe could not turn with him, since he was standing inside it. Turning placed the…
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