A brand new pastor dropped in on the 7th grade Sunday School Class on one of his first Sundays at the church. While there, he decided to test them a little, "Who can tell me who was responsible for the walls of Jericho falling down?"

There was dead silence. But finally one of the boys, obviously one who had several close encounters with disobedience, said, "I don't know, but it wasn't my fault!"

The pastor turned to the teacher who explained, "I know Johnny and his parents, and if he said he didn't have anything to do with it, he didn't!"

Well that thoroughly frustrated the pastor who brought the matter up at his first board meeting. There was long uneasy silence afterwards until the Chair of the Trustees finally said, "Look Pastor, that boy and his parents are all good people. If Jo…