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Baptist, or Anabaptist?

"Rev. Big Mike" sent me this. I laughed so hard I got tears in my eyes. I can't decide which is my favorite. ;-)

You might be a Baptist if:

  1. You believe you are supposed to take a covered dish to heaven when you die.
  2. You have never sung the third verse of any hymn.
  3. You have never put an IOU in the collection plate.
  4. You think God's presence is always strongest in the back six or seven pews.
  5. You think John the Baptist founded the Southern Baptist Convention.
  6. You clapped (or laughed) in church last Sunday and felt guilty about it all week.
  7. You judge the quality of a service by its duration.
  8. You also judge the quality of the sermon by how much sweat the preacher worked up.
  9. You think the Holy Land is Nashville.
  10. You are old enough to get a senior citizen discount at the pharmacy but not old enough to be promoted into the senior adult Sunday School Class.
  11. You think someone who says "amen" while the Pastor is preaching might be a charismatic.
  12. You complained because your Pastor only works one day a week and then he works too long.
  13. You think "Amazing Grace" is the national anthem.
  14. The first complete sentence you uttered was "We've never done it this way before."
  15. You think the epistles are probably the wives of the apostles.
  16. Your definition of "fellowship" has something to do with food.
  17. You wonder if Lottie Moon and Annie Armstrong will ever be paid off.
  18. You honestly believe the Apostle Paul spoke King James English.
  19. You think if the King James Version of the Bible was good enough for Matthew, Mark, Luke and John it is good enough for you.
  20. You think worship service music isn't supposed to be loud.

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patsmor
Sep. 6th, 2005 08:16 pm (UTC)
Revival Meetings, too -- you sing on and on and on and on .... so that every soul that's teetering on the brink of salvation will have time to make up his or her mind...
cvirtue
Sep. 6th, 2005 09:28 pm (UTC)
Some of the best stuff is in the verses they never sing. Sigh.
kayre
Sep. 7th, 2005 02:22 am (UTC)
They forgot the "invisible fermata" in every hymn. As a Methodist organist subbing in a Baptist church, I constantly found myself charging ahead while the congregation lingered lovingly on what they considered the climax of the tune, and having to regroup (and make a mental note for the next verse).
patsmor
Sep. 7th, 2005 02:25 am (UTC)
Oh, yeah! I forgot about that. And how mad our choir director used to get when we had to learn to pause, 'cause he never manage to get the congregation to sing with us ;-)
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