The Messenger February 22, 2017 • Volume 29, Issue 7 Mailing Address P.O. Box 390, Edmond, OK 73083 Physical Address 305 E. Hurd, Edmond, OK 73034 Phone 405-341-0107 | Fax 405-348-7921 Web www.fumcedmond.org | Email
[email protected] JUDGMENT-FREE ZONE “Well, isn’t that special?” This was the catch-phrase of the Church Lady played by Dana Carvey during Saturday Night Live in the late 1980’s. Church Lady would say this phrase in a sarcastic, mocking voice that indicated that the behavior in question was not special at all. The recurring character was a big hit for the show - possibly because she represented an archetype that many Americans had experienced at some point in their lives. Dana Carvey supposedly based her on older women that he had grown up with in church. One of my favorite episodes was one of the first where the Church Lady was interviewing Jenny Dana Carvey played the Church Lady Baker played by Victoria Jackson. Jenny was a girl from on NBC’s Saturday Night Live in the late 1980’s. the Church Lady’s congregation and had attended snap judgments against other people. Our hope is that worship consecutively for 200 times before she this characteristic doesn’t define us or our church. Yet missed. Rather than applauding the girl’s attendance, at the same time, good judgment is needed to preserve the Church Lady’s response was, “Well, I guess some our safety and the well-being of those we love. Where people only come to church when it’s convenient!” do we draw the line and what is appropriate when it The girl replied that the reason she missed was that comes to our judgment of someone else? her grandmother had slipped and fallen in the tub.