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The Dead Church

Started by nards656, October 23, 2004, 12:29:52 PM

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nards656

Well, one more for the day, and then I'll quit....  We've picked on policemen, now let's pick on the church!


A new Pastor in a small Oklahoma town spent the first four days making personal visits to each of the members, inviting them to come to his first services.
       
      The following Sunday the church was all but empty. Accordingly, the Pastor placed a notice in the local newspapers, stating that, because the church was dead, it was everyone's duty to give it a decent Christian burial. The funeral would be held the following Sunday afternoon, the notice said.
       
      Morbidly curious, a large crowd turned out for the "funeral." In front of the pulpit, they saw a closed coffin, smothered in flowers. After the Pastor delivered the eulogy, he opened the coffin and invited his congregation to come forward and pay their final respects to their dead church.
       
      Filled with curiosity as to what would represent the corpse of a "dead church," all the people eagerly lined up to look in the coffin. Each "mourner" peeped into the coffin then quickly turned away with a guilty, sheepish look.
       
      In the coffin, tilted at the correct angle, was a large mirror.
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Pat

Oh, wow!  Good one, Nards and how true!

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Ruth Ann Bice

That's not only funny, but definitely makes us think a bit, doesn't it.

Ruth Ann
...his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.


Suzanne

That is the best one I have heard in awhile  ;D

Pat


Hi Suzanne!  Great to see you!


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