Modesty as described by the General Youth Division

[rgcraig]

I will tell you something that some will not like here and I know it's not always like this.

My dad owned several service stations and he was treated the WORSE by people from our church. They expected everything free or extremely cheap, at the least. Many would run up gas credit (back then you'd just put it on your tab) and wouldn't pay it. It got so bad that he finally had to stop allowing people to have credit.

I learned many lessons from this - -

1. Church people aren't always perfect - they are just people like anyone else.

2. That my dad had a heart of gold. He never forced the issue with them. He would send an invoice for several months, but if they didn't pay he never "went after them"

3. Biggest lesson - - he treated them the same at church -- you would have never known they owed him a dime. However, many times, they would avoid him.