Things You Never Would Expect In Church
 

One night (back in the seventies when I was a kid), my pastor had decided to show one of those scary demon films in the hopes that someone would get the Hell scared out of them (really).

The lights were all out. The film was just starting.

A little toddler had rolled out in the middle aisle. His aunt (quite prudish and a real snit) had just decided it was time to make a bathroom visit.

As she stepped out in the aisle, her toddler nephew stood up. She screamed hysterically as she realized someTHING was in the area of her posterior extremity and UNDERNEATH her dress.

The whole place went nuts.

Some things are scarier than demon films.:toofunny
I don't know who was scared the most. The lady, or her nephew.

Too funny!!! Kinda like the Mississippi Squirrel Revival.

I remember one night at youth camp in Illinois, it was storming so bad. Right as the altar call was given, lightning hit the tabernacle and I think every prodigal got saved. It was awesome! Not sure how much of it stuck though by the next day.

PP - what made you think of that?

One year at Ark. youth camp the preacher was preaching about the Lord coming. He had someone poised and ready to blow a trumpet and right before it was time for his cue to blow the trumpet a train laid down on it's horn so long and loud that they were running over each other to get to the altar.

I think even the trumpet playing had jumped over a few preachers to get to the altar!

LOL... yep.. there are train tracks right across the road from the upc campgrounds there..

We had an evangelist preach for us. His title was on Hell. He wore a red jacket and instructed the sound man to turn off the lights when he gave him a sign.

An older man, that was visiting, wet all over the pew.

That is pitiful.

A Well Known Preacher in the 80's employed certain Bible School Students to create a tape he used at altar calls. They took bacon frying in a pan, and tickled a 7 yr old, who then screamed- Help Me!

They used to turn off the lights and play this tape. weird.

We had been trying to get an elderly man to come to church... His daughter was already in church and she had been working on her Dad for a awhile... but he would tell "if I walk in those doors the roof will cave in on me"....

Well he came to church and it was his first time in a church in Years.. he was 94 years young.... Well during the song service...


He died.....his bowels released.... and a registered nurse in our church said he had NO pulse... and called 911...

We went back and laid hands and prayed... and God brought this man back to life... while the firemen were taking him out on a stretcher...





He never came back....

That is quite disturbing...

Some of these made me laugh

I would have cried otherwise

revrandy's post is even more disturbing! :(

Humorous and Sad...both...

What the man had predicted had somewhat come true... but God raising him back to life was a miracle that he decided was more a "sign" to him that he wasn't welcome back in the house of God...

We tried and tried to get him back... to no avail...

We were visiting a church in LA and had two rows of family sitting together.

During the congregational singing the pew behind us broke and they all slid to the middle in the floor. My brother, SIL and their kids were sitting there.

It was hilarious! No one was injured, but they were so embarrassed. Everyone was helped up and the ushers took out the broken pew and brought in an extra one they had in the back.

Sherri I aslo lived in IL for a little while in the Peoria area. I went to camp meetings and there are still people talking about that. My pastor there told a story that one year at camp a lady had been seeking fo the HG and everynight of camp she spoke in tongues and danced, but she said she did not have the HG yet. My pastor asked her what she was waiting on and she said the see the BIG Flash of light. At the end of camp lighting hit and a light exploded and she opened her eyes from praying long enough to see that and she went to talking in tongues. She said that night she got the Holy Ghost. I wonder if that was the same year?

One time we had a lady praying down at the altar and when she got up to walk back to her pew her slip fell down to her ankles!! LOL.. she tripped and almost fell but she caught herself.. she was quite embarrassed to say the least. we all got a good laugh though!