ENTHUSIASTIC TEACHING
Howard Hendricks tells of an 83 year old woman that he and some other conference leaders happened to have lunch with during a Sunday School Convention at Moody Church in Chicago. In the course of conversation it was learned that she was a teacher of 13 junior-high boys in a church of 55 attendees. She was asked why she was attending the convention. “I’m on a pension – my husband died a number of years ago,” she replied, “and, frankly, this is the first time a convention has come close enough to my home so I could afford to attend. I bought a Greyhound ticket and rode all night to get here this morning and attend two workshops. I want to learn something that will make me a better teacher.” Three convention speakers slithered across the ground back to the convention after that encounter. I couldn’t help thinking about all the frauds across America who would be breaking their arms patting themselves…
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