What Would Jesus Do?

Two sweet old ladies got on the train this morning and sat near me. I warmed to the one next to me when she bought a cup of coffee from the trolley to “oil the wheels”, but specified decaf.

They chatted away to each other, discussing their work in the church, their friendship with the bishop and their dislike of medical science*. Clearly two God-fearing, church-going, upstanding members of the community.

Then the ticket man came along the carriage.

It turns out that the two pillars of the community were knowingly travelling on a peak-time train with invalid off-peak tickets. Thou shalt not steal?

What Would Jesus Do?

I think he’d own up to his mistake, apologise and pay the difference.

The two old ladies, however, decided the Christian thing to do would be to lie and say that “the times of the train had changed”.

As it was, the ticket man barely glanced at their tickets. Praise the Lord!

Jesus Loves Cheats