Sunday School cheap shot
This summer, I signed up to be part of a Sunday School team at Calvary Tabernacle. I’ve played a variety of ministerial roles in my lifetime, even leading a Sunday School class for teens, but this has been my first experience teaching adolescents.
Each Sunday School team consists of a leader and two teaching assistants. As a teaching assistant, I’m responsible for helping Children’s Pastor Todd Dugal minister to a group of kids ranging in age from roughly two to 12. It’s not easy, but it is fun.
This past Sunday I was assigned to perform a science trick outlined in the lesson plan. I filled a drinking glass all the way to the brim with water and placed an index card over the top. When you flip the glass upside down and remove your hand from the index card, the card and water stay in place.
Try it if you don’t believe me.
I explained to the class that when life (the glass) gets turned upside down, Jesus (represented by the index card) helps you hold it together.
In the middle of my eloquent discourse, one of the boys – he couldn’t have been three years old yet – got up and walked right up to me. To my surprise, he cocked his fist and slugged me right between the legs!
I’ll give you a second to quit laughing…
Lucky for me, he was too small to hit with much force. I was surprised, but hardly injured. I kept right on going, but it was hard not to bust up laughing.
I’m just glad that hasn’t happened to me while preaching to adults. It wouldn’t be quite as funny, then.
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