MINISTER AND SON
A son wants to play catch on a Friday evening with his dad. The dad, who is a minister, is tired and has to prepare his sermon for church that week. To change the subject he asks his son how school was that week. The son tells him that they learned about world geography and all the fabulous places to go.
Coincidentally as they are talking the dad notices on the back of the newspaper there's a picture of the world showing the continents. In order to buy himself some time so that he can write his sermon the dad suggests to his son that he cut up the picture of the world and that the son then piece it back together to practice his world geography.
Dad says to the boy, "son, once you are finished we will play catch." The dad thinks that this task will take a while and will allow him the necessary time to write his sermon.
Within ten minutes, the boy calls his dad to announce that he is finished.
The dad is astonished. He asks his son "How did you do it?"
The son says "I looked on back of that picture of the world and I saw a picture of a person. I figure that if I could get the person right then I could get the world right."
The dad says to his son, "Let's go play ball, by the way you have given me my sermon for Sunday."
Point: We have to get self right first. If you do that it stands to reason that you will get the world right.
- Unknown
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