David Russell, a pastor in Union City, Tennessee tells about Nathan, a precocious three-year-old in his church. Nathan’s parents were trying to introduce him to what it means to be in church. One Sunday they gave him a one-dollar bill that Nathan was to place in the offering plate. When the plate moved down Nathan’s pew, his parents held it in front of him and told him to place the dollar in the plate. Nathan balked. Finally his mother gently took the dollar from him. She placed it in the plate, and it was passed on down the pew.

Suddenly the stillness of the offertory was shattered by a voice demanding, “I want my dollar back! I want my dollar back!” In Nathan’s eyes, he had been robbed and he wanted everyone to know it. His parents tried in vain to quiet their son, but he was insistent,…