Waiting in the Denver airport terminal this past week for my connecting flight, I heard a familiar announcement with a new ending. The airline employee, with routine discipline, announced, \u201cLadies and Gentlemen, we are ready to begin boarding our flight to Rapid City. Please have your boarding passes out and ready for the gate attendant.\u201d Then with obvious negative experiences in her past, she added, \u201cWe are not taking a DNA test this morning, so please do not put your boarding pass in your mouth or under your arm.\u201d Now, with everyone\u2019s full attention, she added one final comment, \u201cBesides, that\u2019s really gross!\u201d Her professional training gave way to honest additions. Perhaps this was similar to what Paul was feeling when he wrote of his crowd that they were, \u201calways learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth\u201d (2 Tim. 3:7). This Monday Morning Memo is far too short for me to tell you how many times I\u2019ve made a routine, traditional statement, and been tempted to add an honest addition. Well, maybe I\u2019ll share just one. I\u2019ll put my honest additions in parenthesis (where they belong). \u201cIt is time in our service for the offering (would someone clue the ushers they\u2019re already supposed to be down front), and I know you\u2019ll give generously as unto the Lord (besides part of this pays my salary so don\u2019t hold back!).\u201d Feel free to click on \u201cPost a comment to this memo\u201d and share your own honest additions. Maybe we ought to go ahead with the boldness of the gate attendant and share the \u201ctruth\u201d of our honest additions (and then again maybe not).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Waiting in the Denver airport terminal this past week for my connecting flight, I heard a familiar announcement with a new ending. The airline employee, with routine discipline, announced, \u201cLadies and Gentlemen, we are ready to begin boarding our flight to Rapid City. Please have your boarding passes out and ready for the gate attendant.\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}