For those of you who take part in your church services, you will be familiar with the need for preparation. As a public speaker I have been trained the 3 ‘P’s’ of public speaking, prepare, prepare, prepare.
Last week it was my turn on the rota for reading the Gospel in the service. So I read it through, read it out loud at home. Read it out loud at home 3 times on the Sunday before I went to church, making sure that I was familiar with names and places in the text. The time arrived and everything went well. After the service the minister thanked me for doing the reading but added the final comment, that it was next weeks reading.
I had looked at the wrong line on the rota and read next weeks verses.
Let’s see if the congregation notice when it is read again this week.
Oops!!!
As always though there is a verse in the bible for each situation.
“Father forgive ‘me’ for they know not what they do.”
It is a good job that God’s planning is better than mine.
Ian
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