The Funeral

[Accountable]

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 Sabbath 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

Sabbath 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!!

[Sheryl]

Now there's a way to get the attention of your congregation. :-2

[Frederick]

Sheryl wrote: Now there's a way to get the attention of your congregation. :-2


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