Has anyone fumbled while Lecturing at church?

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Carolyn,

You are a trooper and we would make a dynamic duo indeed. As a matter of fact, all of us that responded with personal blunders would make an awesome team.

All I can say is, “what you see is what you get.” This topic effects everyone that has enough courage to go before an audience and my hats off to all of us…
 
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Carolyn,

You are a trooper and we would make a dynamic duo indeed. As a matter of fact, all of us that responded with personal blunders would make an awesome team.

All I can say is, “what you see is what you get.” This topic effects everyone that has enough courage to go before an audience and my hats off to all of us…
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This thread popped into my mind last night as I had to make four attempts to pronounce “unleavened”. Unleavened??? What’s difficult about unleavened? But for some reason last night I couldn’t wrap my tongue around it. Wondered if I was having a stroke.😉
 
Anyone who stands up in front of a congregation is bound to make mistakes. It comes with the territory. The only people who do not make mistakes are people who have never done anything and that may be the biggest mistake of all.
 
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Anyone who stands up in front of a congregation is bound to make mistakes. It comes with the territory. The only people who do not make mistakes are people who have never done anything and that may be the biggest mistake of all.
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You’re right. It’s not that easy reading out loud to a class or congregation, or even your boss. In my freshman high school class, everyone took a turn reading out the lives of the saint of the day. The teacher required the would-be reader to come after class the day before and prepare thoroughly for the reading. When it was my turn to read, the saint was St. Titus and there had been controversy some time before on whether it was to be TEE-tus or TY-tus. I had to make a quick decision and either way I was bound to lose friends. I hated that.
 
And with mistakes, the person who will notice them the most is the person reading. I made a mistake right at the start of reading on Maundy Thursday just passed. To me it was pretty obvious, but not one person I spoke to even noticed, not even the person who organises our liturgy.
 
I’ve messed up a few times. My most memorable goof was when I was reading one of the letters of Paul (I can’t remember which one now) but the text was something like ‘Husbands do not strike your wife’ and I accidently left out the ‘not’. Oops. Everyone in the church knew it, too. And laughed. So did the priest.

One of the priests in my church now is originally from Nigeria, and when learning English, if they made a mistake, their instructor told them “No, that’s your word, not God’s!”
 
I had to be the narrator for the Passion yesterday, and I couldn’t say “Judas” of all things. Whenever I saw the “J”, I kept wanting to say “Jesus.”

Then I almost said “Pirate” instead of “Pilate”.
 
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