Emphasis Preaching Journal

In 1996, a mental health hospital in New York was not making much progress with a certain woman patient. So they decided to send her to a particular minister, thinking that perhaps counseling from a religious perspective might have better results than what they were doing. But when the doctors sent that woman to the minister, they assumed that the minister would bill the hospital the usual going rate for a counseling session. And based on the number of hours that the minister spent with her, they figured that the total bill should have amounted to about $500.