Responding with Love
Consider this scenario: You sit down for dinner with your fraternity brothers. Just as you are about to enjoy your delicious meal, one brother plops down beside you and tells the most offensive, sexist joke about a sorority woman. There are a couple of ways you might react to inappropriate dinner-time conversation.
You stand up with righteous anger burning out of your ears as you throw your Bible down shouting, “This place is so sinful, you’re all going to burn in hell.”
You stick your head under the table to spend the next ten minutes "looking" for your cell phone while texting your staff to pray for you.
You chuckle to placate your brother and quickly change the topic. You're not sure if it's funny, but nobody likes the person who brings the mood down.
Embrace the Wonder
My church celebrates Advent with the lighting of a candle on the Advent wreath every Sunday. Each Sunday, a family stands up front to lead us in God's Word. The children, rather than the parents, read out what the candle means.