This weekend, thanks to a wedding at our building where we rent space, the congregation I am part of had a joint service with our other congregation and while I had some mixed feelings about sitting on the sidelines for a service after so many weeks of teaching, it actually ended up being quite enjoyable.
Now, I’m not saying I don’t want to teach ever again; in fact, I feel I’ve come up with one of my better commentaries in a while, for next week here, and I’m certainly thinking that I’ll be glad to be involved again.
But one thing teachers rarely get to do is be taught; it was a pleasure to be ministered to, rather than ministering, for a week. Though in the long run, I’m not sure I’d enjoy it if it lasted more than a week every once in a while. I just enjoy teaching too much to ever go back to being very casually involved.