Emphasis Preaching Journal

Jocelyn was learning almost daily in her school that smoking is bad for a person's health and that second-hand smoke is bad for those around the smoker. Yet Jocelyn had a problem: both her parents smoked. It was very hard for this sixth grader to come to terms with the fact that her parents warned her constantly not to take up smoking while, at the same time, her admonishers constantly smoked. Her Sunday school teacher very delicately had to teach Jocelyn and her class that sometimes we have to do as people say and not follow their example.