I stand behind most of what I preached over my thirteen years on the Grace Southwood stage (the only preacher without any speech-related regrets was Jesus!). But there is one lesson I taught multiple times in early sermons that I do wish I could take back. When preaching on the biblical concept of “service,” I sometimes falsely equated serving God with service within the programs of the organizational church. Serving a ministry of the local church certainly does count as serving God, but so do many other types of service that occur outside the walls of the church.