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By Bobby Ross Jr. | Religion Unplugged
EDMOND, Okla. — A glitch washing away a tall man’s sins.
A mishap at a military veteran’s graveside service.
An accident inside the huge fish — an inflatable one anyway — that swallowed Jonah.
On lists of most dangerous jobs, professions such as logger, roofer and lineman rank high.
Preacher? Not so much.
But serving the Lord can be — at least occasionally — difficult on one’s physical health, as my friends David Duncan, Randy Roper and Trey Morgan discovered.
“I like to jokingly quote Galatians 6:17 out of the New Living Translation,” said Duncan, who hurt himself while baptizing a new believer. “It says, ‘For I bear on my body the scars that show I belong to Jesus.’”
“I wouldn’t compare it to martyrs of old or even in today’s world,” Roper quipped concerning his injury while lifting a casket at a military funeral.
“It was a brutal two weeks after I got swallowed by the fish,” suggested Morgan, who regretted taking the role of Jonah in a Vacation Bible School production.
This column appears in the online magazine Religion Unplugged.
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