Stories And Humor For Inspired Preaching
You know how irritation can upset a person. Sometimes a member of a church can drive a pastor to severe distraction. Every church seems to have at least one member who is such a menace.
It is a striking fact that we could learn a lesson from the lowly oyster. When a grain of sand gets into the oyster's shell, what does it do about it? The oyster begins to insulate itself by secreting a substance to cover the irritation. Then, with the movement of the water over the oyster bed the grain of sand begins to roll into a ball and eventually becomes a thing of beauty, a pearl.
