Micah J. Sturm

It was the early 1990s. 

My driver’s education teacher didn’t go to church.

I was one worried student. 

Why would a man ride in a car with unlicensed teenage drivers everyday unprepared to meet God?

When I asked my teacher to come to church with me, he said, “I’m not going to church!  Too many hypocrites!”

I didn’t know what to say!

One day I asked him again—ready for his usual response—“I’m not going to church! Too many hypocrites!”

But this time I used a line I heard a preacher say once—“I’d rather go to church with a few hypocrites than to go to hell with all of them.”

My teacher smiled and was quiet that day.  

I pray he never used that excuse again and went to church somewhere.

What’s your excuse?