The pulpit is a great place to model behavior. Not just good behavior but humility and grace recipient. We have a bunch of teens in our church. Sometimes I point right at them yelling, “kids, don’t be like I was in school!” You can rant about what a jerk you were to somebody only to realize later he was such a nice guy. I would be careful about going on about very negative behaviors. Sometimes I point to that cross exclaiming how it was “I who should have been there, not Jesus”. Sometimes when we implicate ourselves it helps us when we exhort them.
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