Funny moment at Sunday's Easter Service
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Funny moment at Sunday Easter service
So my family went to church at my mom’s church on Sunday. My wife and I had never been. We’ve tended to go to my wife’s Baptist church with her folks. It’s the church we got married in but it’s turned into wannabe mega church (seats at least 1,500). Pure right wing Christian persecution victimization bullshit. My moms church in another part of the Shenandoah Valley.
My mom’s church is Presbyterian. I used to joke it was like religion without really trying. Mom’s church split in half a few years ago over homosexuality. The pastor officially says “Let God figure it out” but won’t perform ceremonies for gays in or out of the church. Mom stayed away from the dark side and stayed in this church. Sadly she is brainwashed from Fox News being in constantly at her house.
Stay with me. We are getting to the funny.
Beautiful little church with a massive 125 year old organ. About 100 in attendance. Almost no kids other than my daughter (13). The church was old wooden pews and could sit maybe 300. Very warm and welcoming.
Okay so the pastor (fairly young guy) begins the actual Easter sermon. I was astonished. He calmly discussed Christianity’s merits. Yes much of the story of Easter defies logic and physics and rational thought but it’s a matter simply of faith....and action. How you treat other people makes you a Christian not simply being at church or claiming to be Christian. He kept going back to arguments against Christianity but there were no straw men, no victimization, all positive.
Then he started telling a story about he and his wife traveling through France. He and their host pastor had discussions in which our pastor kept asking “Why...?” this and “Why...?” that. Finally his host replied WHY NOT?
This was the basis of his sermon. Sort of a Pascal’s Wager sort of thing. It became the theme of their trip.
Want to go for a hike? WHY NOT
Want to go to this little village? WHY NOT
Another round?
——this voice from the back of the room screams out WHY NOT
Everyone cracked up.
Okay that was it. Boy I went for a walk in the woods there.
One more. The Lord’s Prayer for Presbyterians doesn’t say the “trespass” stuff saying “debt” and “debtors” instead. This really tripped up my wife and I. We laughed about it later. I said to her “You should know that. YOU went to church your whole life. I learned the prayer from kneeling after high school football games”
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