The week that you're broke, or the week you went to the evening service the day before, you happen to sit on the first row of your aisle. Moments later, the announcer prays for the offerings that are about to be received and you panic. You look down the row and there are at least 10 people there, including your friend who loves tithing so much he promised 10 percent of his children's time in the future to the church.
What do you do?
You can't refuse the offering basket. You can't hide your hands inside your shirt and pretend you were born that way because no one saw your Bible just float next to you.
So, you take the offering basket, pass the empty thing to the person next to you and watch your friend shake his head at you. For shame.
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Monday, May 27, 2013
Saturday, April 9, 2011
#41. The announcement guy who wants to be a pastor
Let's say you have a friend named Bob. Bob is a nice guy, loves his family, serves in the church. Everything was fine, a la Pleasantville style, until Bob was asked to be the announcement guy. It is apparent that your friend Bob is a frustrated pastor.
Somewhere along the way he may have heard the "call," but hit the ignore button instead. But you have no idea about Bob's frustration. You're at church, you go through the awesome worship and you're waiting to hear your pastor's 1 hour long message. Nothing wrong with that picture , so far. But then, they call Bob to make some quick announcements, and instead you get a half hour preaching, before the real preaching!
Bob's announcement card reads:
"Children's ministry moved to Room 2B"
What Bob says:
"Good morning everyone. How are y'all doing? That's good to hear! I just want to let y'all know tha the Children's ministry was moved to Room 2b. Now that's interesting because if you remember from your Bible, the children of Israel were moving constantly. First, they went through the desert, which was supposed to take only a few days but instead it took them something like 40 years give or take..."
Do you have any "Bob's" in your church?
Somewhere along the way he may have heard the "call," but hit the ignore button instead. But you have no idea about Bob's frustration. You're at church, you go through the awesome worship and you're waiting to hear your pastor's 1 hour long message. Nothing wrong with that picture , so far. But then, they call Bob to make some quick announcements, and instead you get a half hour preaching, before the real preaching!
Bob's announcement card reads:
"Children's ministry moved to Room 2B"
What Bob says:
"Good morning everyone. How are y'all doing? That's good to hear! I just want to let y'all know tha the Children's ministry was moved to Room 2b. Now that's interesting because if you remember from your Bible, the children of Israel were moving constantly. First, they went through the desert, which was supposed to take only a few days but instead it took them something like 40 years give or take..."
Do you have any "Bob's" in your church?
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