By David Hegg

Every year, our church employs an outside auditing firm to scrutinize our financial practices. We do so because we intend to handle the charitable donations of our church family in a way that is above reproach. Our auditors perform a crucial service when their team arrives, takes over our conference room, and reviews all our records, looking for mistakes and discrepancies. That’s what auditors do. They look for transgressions, fraud, lack of proper oversight, and anything else not up to GAAP … generally accepted accounting principles.

In business, auditors are essential and highly valued. They point out areas where risk is hiding just around the corner, so we can prevent it from causing real problems.

But when it comes to regular human interaction, those who constantly point out what they find objectionable make the world miserable for the rest of us. You know who you are!

You self-identify as everyone’s auditor, always ready to point out how we have failed to live up to your opinion of what is right and best. And all the while you fail to realize just how hard you are to live with, and how petty your criticism makes........

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