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RELIGION/NATIONAL
Denton Record-Chronicle
Friday, June 15, 2018
7A
Apology should change us for the
better
My wife always likes to know
that I know what I did wrong. If
I understand how I screwed up,
at least there’s a possibility I can
learn from my mistakes.
This is great advice I have
learned to appreciate over the
years. But let me suggest a few
more biblical elements of a
good apology.
Paul was an Apostle — a
type of overseer — of the
Church in Corinth in Greece.
He started the church and
then moved on to other
countries as he continued his
missionary work. He appoint-
ed new leadership in Corinth
to take over for him in his
absence. He stayed in regular
contact.
At one point he received a
letter from one of the Corinthi-
an church leaders named Chloe.
She listed several issues
with which the church was
struggling and needed advice.
Paul responded with a letter to
the church suggesting a course
of action. We call that letter 1
Corinthians.
One issue, in particular, was
especially thorny. Paul gave his
advice, but it doesn’t seem that
the church followed it. Paul
wrote them again. This time his
letter was a bit stronger, a bit
sterner. This letter has been lost
to posterity.
But whatever Paul said in
here’s a great market
in today’s culture for
monetizing vulgarity. We
witnessed this recently at the
White House Correspondents’
Association dinner.
Of course, part of a comedi-
an’s job description is to push
the envelope. George Carlin’s
1972 bit, “The Seven Words
You Can Never Say on Televi-
sion,” appalled many. But he
made some great (and funny)
points. What words are on the
list? Who makes the list? He
notes that you can really only
discover what is out of bounds
are, or they “crossed a line,” or
joked “in bad taste.” The phrases
“deeply regret” or “truly sorry”
placate us some, but these are
pretty weak apologies — faux-
pologies.
Jesus once said: “The good
man brings good things out of
the good stored up in his heart,
and the evil man brings evil
things out of the evil stored
up in his heart. For out of the
overflow of his heart his mouth
speaks.” (Luke 6:45)
What we say, do and tweet
does represent who we really
are — irrespective of our claims
of “I’m sorry.”
So what makes a good apol-
ogy? I was going to check with
Dear Abby, but then I thought,
‘Why not ask my wife? She’s
had to listen to bad apologies
for the last 25 years.”
First of all, she says, a good
apology doesn’t include the
phrase “I’m sorry,” because it
isn’t specific. You might be
“sorry” you got caught, “sorry”
this thing blew up in your face
or “sorry” you’re in this pickle.
Next, don’t make excuses
and don’t include the word
“but.” “I’m sorry, but...” miti-
gates personal responsibility
and ends the discussion. Finally,
in a good apology, the offender
expresses what he or she did
wrong and how it affected the
offendee.
this lost letter worked. The
church came around to Paul’s
way of thinking. The thorny
issue was put to rest. Paul
describes this in another letter
to the church (our 2 Corinthi-
ans). Paul writes that he regrets
having to be so stern with the
church in his second letter, but
is happy with the outcome.
“Now I am glad I sent it, not
because it hurt you, but because
the pain caused you to repent
and change your ways. It was
the kind of sorrow God wants
his people to have, so you were
not harmed by us in any way.
For the kind of sorrow God
wants us to experience leads
us away from sin and results
in salvation....” (2 Corinthians
7:9-10)
So we can add to our defini-
tion of a good apology: repen-
tance. The Greek word, literally
translated, means a “change of
mind/heart.”
We might describe it as a
U-tum. When Google Maps
tells you that you’re going the
wrong direction, you turn
around.
It’s one thing to tell the
world, “I’m sorry.” It is quite
another to say, “I was wrong. I
was completely misdirected. I
have made significant course
corrections.”
But Paul continues. “Just
see what this godly sorrow
produced in you! Such ear-
nestness, such concern to clear
yourselves, such indignation,
such alarm.... You showed
that you have done everything
necessary to make things right.”
(2 Corinthians 7:11)
I think this is the final part
of a real apology: restitution —
the desire to make things right.
When we screw up, when the
vileness of our sinful hearts
comes out of our mouths or
onto our Twitter feed, when we
recognize we were wrong... that
what we said was hurtful, we
want to make it right.
As Paul says, our ugliness
should alarm us... should make
us indignant. We should be
“sorry,” but that sorrow should
lead us to change our ways and
make restitution when possible,
public when necessary.
This has kept me happily
married for 25 years. We’ll see
if it works for Rosanne and
Samantha Bee. I’m not exactly
sure what it might look like, but
I guess we’ll know it when we
see it.
T
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James A. Mann
COMMENTARY
crossed a line, and I deeply
regret it.”
Then there’s Rosanne Barr.
In a series of negative, po-
litically oriented tweets, one
about Valerie Jarrett (rightly)
set off racism bells. She quickly
apologized: “I am truly sorry
for making a bad joke about
by trial and error. And that can
be painful.
The problem of monetizing
vulgarity and pushing bound-
aries is that the lines move. The her politics and her looks,” Barr
list changes. Several recent ex- tweeted. “I should have known
amples remind us that comedy
is a dangerous job.
Samantha Bee, a late-
night comedienne, recently
made headlines by using one
of Carlin’s naughty words to
describe Ivanka Trump. She’d
used the word on her show
better. Forgive me — my joke
was in bad taste.”
The response by their
respective employers is inter-
esting — TBS, Bee’s employer,
apologized but did not dis-
cipline her; ABC, Rosanne’s
employer, canceled her sitcom.
But what interests me more are
several times before, but this
context caused an uproar.
Bee quickly apologized: “I
would like to sincerely apolo-
gize to Ivanka Trump and to my apologies today,
viewers for using an expletive
on my show to describe her last and Hollywood types all telling
night,” Bee said. “It was inap-
propriate and inexcusable. I
the apologies themselves.
Maybe it’s just me, but it
seems we get more and more
JAMES A. MANN, Ph.D.,
is a Denton native and the
lead pastor of New Life Church
of Denton. He is an assistant
professor of New Testament at
Liberty University School of
Divinity located in Lynchburg,
Virginia.
Athletes, politicians, clergy
us that what they said or did “in
no way” represents who they
BRIEFLY
Lawsuit accuses Trump of
misusing charity foundation
IN RELIGION
Federation Choir to
perform gospel concert
The Federation Choir will
perform a concert at 6 p.m.
Sunday at St. Andrew Church of
God in Christ, 608 Lakey St.
The Federation Choir is
made up of singers from black
churches in Southeast Denton.
The Federation Choir grew out
of a movement to worship to-
gether in Denton’s black church-
es in the 1970s. The concert is
entirely gospel music. The pub-
life have been displayed outside
the front entrance of Red Bank
Baptist Church in Lexington for
a decade. But church members
voted last month to move it.
The Rev. Jeff Wright, the
church’s pastor, would not say
when the statue will be taken
down. Church members meant
no harm in the decision, and the
attention has turned what was
a simple church issue unfairly
into a social justice issue, Wright
said.
he is invited to attend.
— Staff report
Columbia, S.C.
Church’s ‘Catholic’
statue gets new home
A statue of Jesus that a Bap-
tist church in South Carolina
voted to remove because the
congregation deemed it too
Catholic has found a new home.
The hand-carved, 7-foot
statue and accompanying reliefs
depicting scenes from Christ’s
By Jennifer Peltz ’
Associated Press
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illegally using the charity’s mon- j
ey to settle disputes involving his
business empire and to boost his
political fortunes during his run
for the White House.
The president called the case
“ridiculous.”
The lawsuit against Trump
and the foundation directors —
his children Don Jr., Eric and
Ivanka — seeks $2.8 million in
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restitution, additional unspec- larged copy of a $100,000 contribution from the Donald J.
ified penalties and the dissolu- Trump Foundation to Support Siouxland Soldiers during a
tion of the foundation, which campaign event in Sioux City, Iowa., during Trump’s run for
Trump had already pledged to president in 2016.
dismantle.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
BIBLE CHURCH
EPISCOPAL
METHODIST
MT. PILGRIM CHRISTIAN
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
339 Robertson Street
Denton, Texas 76205
DENTON BIBLE CHURCH
2300 East University Drive
Denton, TX 76209 (940) 297-6700
Senior Pastor: Tommy Nelson
SUNDAY:
Worship & Sunday School
Worship & Sunday School ...,11:00 AM
Sign Interpretation -11:00 AM service
Evening Worship at 6:00 PM
Childcare (4-42 mo)
Awana Available.....
WEBSITE: www.dentonbible.org
Or call for any particular
information needed.
ST. BARNABAS
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
1200 North Elm
(940)382-2748
The Rev. Donald K. Johnson, Rector
fLifeline
Church
Keaton R. Fuller, Pastor
,9:00 AM
The attorney general’s office FEC representatives declined to
detailed what it said was a close- comment,
ly coordinated effort by Trump’s
campaign and the foundation mission says its funds are to be
to burnish his political image used “exclusively for charitable,
by giving out big grants of other religious, scientific, literary or
people’s money to veterans’ or- educational purposes,” accord-
ganizations during the run-up ing to the lawsuit,
to the Iowa caucuses, the first
presidential nominating contest
of 2016.
Sanders, meanwhile, called Un-
derwood “outrageously biased.”
The 31-year-old founda-
tion said that it has given more
than $19 million to charitable
causes while keeping expenses
minimal, and that Trump and
his companies have contributed
more than $8 million.
Underwood is a career gov-
ernment lawyer who was ap-
pointed after Schneiderman’s
resignation. She has said she
doesn’t intend to run for elec-
tion.
SUNDAY
......Holy Eucharist Rite I
................Sunday School
........Holy Eucharist Rite II
With Music
(940) 387-5452
8:30 a.m...
10::00 a.m.
11:00 a.m...
2800 Pennsylvania Drive
Denton, TX 76205
940-535-5560
SUNDAY:
Sunday School.
Worship Service
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
..9:00 a.m.
.10:30 a.m.
The Trump Foundation’s
www.lifelinechurch.net
WEDNESDAY:
Prayer Meeting.
Bible Study.......
.6:00 p.m.
..6:30 p.m
Jerry Reagan, Pastor
TUESDAY
CATHOLIC
Sunday
10:30am
Nursery and Children’s Church
available
.Morning Prayer
.. Holy Eucharist
8:30a.m..
9:30 a.m.
WEDNESDAY
ST. MARK CATHOLIC CHURCH
DENTON
Join Us At Our New Address
6500 Crawford Road
Argyle, TX 76226
PRESBYTERIAN
Sunday - Spanish -language
Service......3:00
.Evening Prayer
.. Holy Eucharist
6:00 p.m
6:20 p.m.
In exchange for tax-exempt
status, charities are required to
follow rules that include a strict
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
1114 W. University, Denton, TX 76201
(940) 387-3894
Wednesday
LifeGroups for adults, youth
and kids
7:00pm
THURSDAY
.Morning Prayer
8:30 a.m.
940-387-6223
Fax: 940-464-7808
E-mail: jgodfrey@stmarkdenton.org
www.stmarkdenton.org
Fr. George, Pastor
Weekday Mass Schedule
“The foundation’s grants prohibition against involvement
made Mr. Trump and the cam- in political campaigns,
paign look charitable and in-
creased the candidate’s profile to won’t settle this case!
Republican primary voters and
among important constituent General Eric Schneiderman,
groups,” Democratic Attorney who started the investigation,
General Barbara Underwood’s “never had the guts to bring this
lawsuit said.
It accused the foundation of last month after being accused
“improper and extensive politi- of physically abusing women he
cal activity, repeated and willful dated. Schneiderman has de-
self-dealing transactions, and nied the allegations,
failure to follow basic fiduciary
obligations.”
Underwood referred her worst,” noting that Schneider-
findings to the IRS and the Fed- man, a Democrat, was a vocal
eral Election Commission for Trump opponent. White House
possible further action. IRS and press secretary Sarah Huckabee
Rev. Debbie H. Spangler .Pastor
SATURDAY
.Morning Prayer
8:30 a.m.
Coffee Fellowship 10;:30 a.m.
BAPTIST
In tweets, Trump vowed: “I
Sunday Worship Service....11:00 a.m.
Nursery Available
Wednesday Evening Prayer
Meeting.....7:00 p.m.
SOUTHMONT
LUTHERAN
Mon, Tues, Thurs and Fri 7:30 am
Wed 12pm
He said former Attorney
Schneiderman began investi-
gating the charity in 2016, after
The Washington Post reported
that the foundation’s spending
personally benefited the presi-
dential candidate.
Some of the expenditures
uncovered by The Post were cit-
ed in the lawsuit.
In a handwritten note,
Trump directed that $100,000
in foundation money go to set-
tle legal claims against Trump’s
Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm
Beach, Florida, the lawsuit said.
2801 Pennsylvania Dr
940-566-3313
www.southmont.org
aul
Saturday
Vigil Mass - 5:00pm
Spanish Mass - 7:00pm
Sunday
Mass - 7:00, 9:00 & 11:30am
Life Teen Mass - 4:00pm
Adoration
Mon, Tues ,and Wed 8:00am-8:00pm
Fri 8::00&-11:30AM
Reconciliation
Sat 3:00-4:00pm
OFFICE HOURS
Mon & Fri 9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Tues, Wed & Th 9:00 a.m. - Noon
Lutheran Church
SUNDAY SCHEDULE
LCMS
ridiculous case” before resigning
Traditional Worship.....
Smaill Groups...............
Contemporary Worship
Service
.9:30 a.m.
703 North Elm
940-387-1575
Christian Learning Center
940-387-6651
Website: www.splcdenton.org
Website: www.fpcdenton.org
.10:30 a.m.
11:30a.m
WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE
Pastor: Russell W. Tieken
DCE: Ron DuPree
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Trump’s foundation called
the case “politics at its very
Dinner
.5:15 p.m.
DENTON CHRISTIAN CHURCH
3130 North Elm 382-4115
Denton, TX 76201
Sunday Worship.....8:15 and 10:45 a.m
Sunday School
Adult Bible
9:30 a.m
Study.
.6:00 p.m.
pRiNiry
Nursery Provided
Bible School
..9:30 a.m
10:30 a.m.
..7:00 p.m
Youth..................
Chikdren’s Choir.
Adult Choir..........
,6:00p.m.
,6:00p.m.
,7:00p.m.
Morning Worship
Midweek Study..
METHODIST
Tom Marsh, Minister
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
2200 North Bell, Denton
940.382.8815
Craig L. Hunter, Pastor
Beth Peak Thompson,
Director of Christian Education
FlilVIC
gateway
V_I CHURCH OF DENTON
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
(Disciples of Christ)
Inviting all to worship,
fellowship and serve.
Rev. Jack Mullins, Minister
1203 N. Fulton Street
(Just South of Hwy. 380)
(940) 566-4990
www.fccdenton.org
SUNDAY
BRIEFLY
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
940-382-5478
201 S. Locust
www.fumc-denton.com
Gateway United Baptist Church
BELL AVENUE CHURCH
2401 N. Bell Avenue
Denton, TX 76209
(940) 382-9367
Pastor - Charles C. "Buddy" Owens
SUNDAY SERVICES
Morning Worship ..8:30 a.m., 10:55 a.m
9:45 a.m
6:00 p.m
Sunday School....
Coffee Fellowship
Worship...............
...9:30 a.m.
.10:30 a.m.
.11:00 a.m.
ACROSS THE NATION
Don Lee, Lead Pastor
Child Care Provided
SUNDAY SCHEDULE:
Traditional Worship
(Sanctuary)........8:30 a.m.
Sunday School........9:40 a.m.
Visit us at
http://tpcdenton.org
Washington
Watchdog: Comey not
biased in Clinton probe
In a stinging rebuke, the
Justice Department watchdog
declared Thursday that former
FBI Director James Comey was
“insubordinate” in his handling
of the Hillary Clinton email in-
vestigation in the explosive final
months of the 2016 presiden-
tial campaign. But it also found
there was no evidence that
Comey’s or the department’s fi-
nal conclusions were motivated
by political bias toward either
candidate.
President Donald Trump
had looked to the much-antic-
ipated report to provide a fresh
line of attack against Comey and
the FBI as Trump claims that a
politically tainted bureau tried
to undermine his campaign
and, through the later Russia
investigation, his presidency.
Clinton and her supporters, on
the other hand, have long com-
plained that she was the one
whose election chances were
torpedoed by Comey’s investiga-
tion announcements about her
email practices, in the summer
and then shortly before the elec-
tion.
policy that is resulting in hun-
dreds of immigrant children be-
ing separated from their parents
after they enter the U.S. illegally.
Sessions, speaking in Fort
Wayne, Indiana, on immigra-
tion, pushed back against crit-
icism he had received over the
policy. Sessions said many of the
recent criticisms were not “fair
or logical and some are contrary
to law.”
Sunday School .
Sunday Worship
(Handicapped Accessible.
Nursery Provided)
WEDNESDAY
Wednesday Night Live
Youth Groups..............
...9:30 a.m.
.10:50 a.m.
Sunday School..
Evening Worship
WEDNESDAY ACTIVITIES
Morning Bible Study......
Children/Youth Activities
Prayer/Bible Study.........
SENIOR ADULT ACTIVITIES
I.Q. Breakfast (1st Tuesday) ...8:30 a.m
JOY Lunch (3rd Thursday)... 11:30 a.m.
Mosaic Worship (Monroe Fellowship
9:45 a.m.
10:00 a.m
. 7:00 p.m.
..7:00 p.m
Building)
%
.6:00 p.m.
.7:00 p.m.
Celebration Worship (Sanctuary) (Also
televised on channels Charter 191 and
Verizon 39).
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.11:00 a.m.
u
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Open Worship
(Flinn Hall)......11:00 a.m.
Bilingual (Flinn Hall).
HIGHLAND BAPTIST CHURCH
600 Thomas Street
Brandon McCarroll, Pastor
NORTHPOINT CHURCH OF CHRIST
Philip Smith, Preacher
4224 N. I-35 - 940.220.9931
Greenway Plaza - Past Cracker Barrel
www.northpointcoc.com
northpointcoc@hotmail.com
Sun. Morning.
Sun. Evening.
Wed. Evening
387-1745
,12:30 p.m.
SUNDAY:
Bible Study..........
Morning Worship.
Sanctuary Choir..
Evening Worship
WEDNESDAY:
Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m.
www.saint-andrew.com
3rd Day Family Service (3rd Sunday of
every month) (Monroe Fellowship
11:15 a.m.
...9:30 a.m.
.10:45 a.m.
...5:00 p.m.
...6:00 p.m.
Sunday School.
Worship Service.
..9:30am
,10:30am
Building)
9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.
......................1:00 p.m
......................7:00 p.m
Our mission: To make disciples of
Jesus Christ for the transformation
of the world.
300 W. Oak Street, Denton TX 76201
940.387.3897
SHERMAN DRIVE
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Preacher Weylan Deaver
SUNDAY
“I would cite you to the Apos-
tle Paul and his clear and wise
command in Romans 13, to
obey the laws of the government
because God has ordained them
for the purpose of order,” he said.
“Orderly and lawful processes
are good in themselves and pro-
tect the weak and lawful.”
— The Associated Press
www.highlanddenton.org
email:
highlanddenton@highlanddenton.org
Televised Live each Sunday, 11 a.m.
on Cable Channels
191 &39
Senior Pastor: Richard B. Culp
Classes.
Worship.
Worship.
...9:00 a.m.
.10:00 a.m.
...5:00 p.m.
Associate Pastor: Lisa Patterson
Washington
Sessions cites Bible
to defend policy
Attorney General Jeff Ses-
sions cited the Bible on Thurs-
day in his defense of his border
TOWNE NORTH BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor, Ken Gray
526 Hercules Lane
Denton, TX 76209
(940) 565-9218
Sunday Services:
Bible Study for all ages............
Worship Services
10:30 a.m. & 6:00 p.m
Wednesday Evening Services
RAs & GAs......
Youth Activities...
Adult Bible Study
TUESDAY
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