(The Further Adventures of Eugene Davis, Sophomore Christian)
“Have you seen this?” asked an angry voice one Sunday morning.
Yep, it was Eugene Davis, sophomore Christian and resident expert on what everybody else should and shouldn’t be doing.
“Seen what?” I asked politely as Eugene shoved a Sunday bulletin in my hand.
“All these parties!” he said.
In the midst of the activities list, Eugene had highlighted three youth fellowships in one week: the Jr. High, the Sr. High, and the All-Youth Pizza Pig-Out and Christmas Party that night after church.
“Well, there’s never a bad time to eat pizza,” I joked. “Don’t you know the wise men caught up with King Herod at Pizza Hut?”
But Eugene was in no joking mood.
“That’s not the point,” he fumed. “It seems like all we ever do with these kids is feed ’em pizza and take ’em on trips. When I was a teenager, we learned to give and do for others.”
“When you were a teenager, you were lost,” I replied. “Furthermore, when you were a teenager, Chicago was a cow pasture.” [click to continue…]
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