Ok this thread is to share some of the funnier moments you have seen at a church service. I know God has a sense of humor and is laughing with us, not at us.
One time during communion time, our preacher usallly said a praqyer before dismissing those at the "table". During one of those prayers he said "firmed fixly on Jesus" instead of firmly fixed on Jesus. Of coarse the only ones that caught it were Lisa and I and his wife. We almost couldn't get up and make it back to our pew without laughing outloud.
Growing up my dad was a pastor of a few different but always very conservative churches with an organization called "Village Missions". It's an evangelical organization that places pastors in small rural churches and helps support the pastor and his family until the church gets on their feet. Anyways, we had a number of funny things happen but these were two of my favorites:
One Sunday we got to the church and there was a bat flying around and everyone was freaked out but nobody knew what to do. They ended up throwing hymnbooks at it until they stunned it and then someone picked it up and let it out of the church. Oh, hope that doesn't make the bat activists mad!!
The other time was when we had a guest musical group one Sunday night and as everyone was coming into the church a lady passed out in the lobby. The church was a very small a-frame building and there was just a curtain that you pulled to separate the lobby (which was a really only a tiny entryway). Anyways, the paramedics were there in the lobby with the lady and the service started. The musical group was from a much more charasmatic church then we were and they started to sing and encouraged everyone to get up and dance if they wanted to. My dad was at the back of the church helping to attend somehow to the passed out lady and he heard that and opened the curtain just long enough to stick his head thru and say "We don't dance here!" It was GOOOOOD times!!
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Going cold turkey isn't nearly as delicious as it sounds - Homer Simpson.
With our current pastor we do a type of prayer during our worship service where people can call out the names of people they want to pray for, then the congregation responds, "Lord, hear our prayer". Amy & I were sitting there one Sunday during this time and she wrote me a note saying she wanted to call out random things. I immediately thought, "peanut butter". Another week, Amy said (quietly), "ducklings". It cracked us both us and caused dirty looks from the pastor.
Thankfully, I know God has a sense of humor.
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Grace is the acceptance of that which is rejected. ~Paul Tillich
One time the preacher was finishing up his sermon and said "Stand up for Jesus" sounding like we were supposed to stand but is was just part of what he was saying and not meaning to have us stand.
As Teddy is one of the 'leaders' and likes to be the first one up it is great most the time except for this once! The best part was that he was in the chior front row, and it was a day that they didn't wear robes for some reason and he had to pull up his pants from sliding down. It was great we had a good ole' laugh at lunch that day.
