Ever started laughing in Church and not stop.
 

Ever started laughing in Church and not stop. :killinme

Laughed so hard you snorted and wet your pants?:slaphappy

You do that while playing the bass?

YES!!!!!! Obviously I missed the wetting my pants and snorting - NO on that one!

:killinme no!

All except the wet your pants part.... Yes. :D

My pastor is ALWAYS saying something to make me laugh.... A couple of times I've had to get up and walk out into the fellowship hall to regain my composure so that I could listen to the rest of his sermon.

We used to have a Bible study on Tuesday mornings. One of the meetings I was getting ready to teach. One point I was going to make was about jesting. As I got ready to teach I began to lose control.

I began laughing. Pretty soon everyone was laughing! And I mean hard! One of the Elders ran into another room trying to get a grip. We heard him laughing outrageously loud.

After a while we began to settle down. As soon as I opened my mouth to speak it hit all over again. This time it was so hard I couldn't take it! I closed my Bible and ran for the door. In the Car driving home I liked to never stopped laughing.

It may be the first time a Church meeting was ever cancelled because of uncontrolable laughter. I believe it was the Lord showing us HIS JOY versus the joy of the world.

I would like to experience that again as wild as it was!

I call that the shoulder shakes and I've had them many, many times!

Can't say that I've ever snorted or wet my pants though.

Steadfast has told this story before and it's a hoot!

Story by Steadfast:
Kind of like the Youth Camp I preached a few years ago in a super duper ultra conservative environment when the 55 (or so) year old 'Principle' of the camp got up right before I preached and was giving them the 'campground conduct code'. He said, (and, yes, I'm serious) "We're going to respect the House of God by utilizing a proper dress code to these night services. For example, I want every girl in the building wearing thongs to stand up right now...."

Obviously he meant what we call 'flip flops' but he insisted one progressing in that vein by saying, "Come on now, I've been looking closely at some of you and there are more thongs still sitting in those pews!"

My youngest son, who was sitting beside me on the front row, said, "Oh Lord, Dad! What in the world is he doing!" I said, "Son, he's talking about 'flip flops'." My son - MUCH younger at the time - leaned down like he was picking up his Bible and said, "They aren't wearing flip flops, Dad!"

Ironically, just as I wanted to kill my son, the man in the pulpit said, "There will be NO thongs in the evening services! If you have to wear thongs then stop on your way in, pull them off and leave them in a pile at the front door!"

Yep, it was pretty much over at that very moment.

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I am sitting here with tears running now because I am laughing so hard!!!!! In fact, I called my friend (who is not now nor ever has been Apostolic) and read it to her and she is laughing as hard as I am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing this. :killinme:killinme:killinme:killinme:killinme:kill inme

My wife was at a lady's retreat a couple of years ago and the main speaker told a story about Bill Gaither (of the Gaithers). I don't know if anyone here ever heard THAT one. But my wife still starts blowing whatever she was drinking out of her nose when she thinks of it......

This is horrible - the very FIRST time I brought my oldest sister to church! It was a home mission work in her town. I had never met the pastor or his wife.

Well, he is preaching on out of Hosea and mentions, "Gomer"!!!! Oh my Lord, we couldn't stop laughing. The pastor even started laughing - Mayberry RFD. :killinme

:slaphappyoh my gahhhhhhh!!!:killinme

Could you imagine being in this service?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JzSLIhhd5s

The pastor brought a little girl to the platform once for an illustration. Gave her a spoonful of flour or something like that, and she spat it out in big puff of dust! I couldn't stop laughing!

POOF! :killinme

I remember a spider causing quite a disturbance once.

While my pastor was preaching, a spider started slowly descending from the ceiling right above a young couple sitting on the front pew.

Some of the saints noticed it and pointed it out to other saints and thus it spread.

The spider would descend a few feet, then go back up, descend and go back up and occasionally the descents were sudden instead of slow drops. Every time it dropped suddenly, those watching would gasp and snicker, anticipating this spider landing on or very close to the young lady.

The young couple was unaware of the spider or what was going on behind them.

This went on for about 15 minutes with saints snickering, pointing and gasping on occasion. All while my pastor was preaching.

He finally had enough of it and angrily asked what everyone was finding so entertaining?

The young couple turned around looking confused as someone pointed and explained that there was a spider coming down from the ceiling. My pastor couldn't see it, and clearly annoyed said "A what? Where?" And as several people pointed the young couple looked up just as the spider DROPPED completely to the floor at the feet of the young lady.

I've never seen anyone jump pews like that girl! She set a record getting off the floor and safely onto the pew away from that spider. Her husband squished it, the whole place was in stitches and the pastor had a very hard time getting everyone back to his message.

On Mothers day Sunday, our Pastor ask all the Mothers to stand. My husband who is hearing impaired stood too, but I was interested to know what the Pastor had to say to us so I hadn't noticed him standing up. Then my husband leaned into my shoulder and lowly said " what are we standing up for"? I said it's only for the Mothers to stand and he sat down. Then I got the sniggers, the shoulder shakes, then the sputtering, and then had to step into the foyer for a moment. Needless it say when I came back to my seat and looked at the ladies sitting across the aisle from us that had witnessed it all, I actually sputtered again. You always get the most tickled when it is not appropriate to laugh. I was embarrased, because everyone didn't know what had taken place.

Many years ago at my home church a dear elderly lady brought her grown, yet not quite right in the head son to church for some special occasion like Easter or something where we were having a large attendance push….LOTS of visitors.

As the service progressed, he kept looking around with this wild eyed silly grin that got most peoples attention.

Well, as normally happens in Pentecostal services things are noisy up unit the preaching starts and then there are lulls in the action.

So the pastor starts preaching and when he paused the first time, this guy stretches his abnormally long neck, pats himself on the head and exclaims in a VERY loud thickly accented southern/redneck draw “WANT A DRANK!”

Mind you because of his actions during the prelims of the service, and his odd actions, many people were already watching him.

So “WANT A DRANK!” became even MORE of a distraction.

Now everyone realized this guy wasn’t right so most were trying to keep their composure but after the fifth or sixth time, this one deal lady (and good friend of my mothers) who weighed at least 350 pounds got to laughing. I don’t mean, giggling, I mean really uncontrollably laughing! She almost broke the bench. The preacher got distracted, lost his place, repeated himself and generally stuttered. They almost had to just dismiss church.

Even to this day, and it has been 30 odd years, you can say “WANT A DRANK” and people back home will break out in laughter.

That was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in church.

I fell asleep playing "Heart Mender" on the bass in Ohio, he he he!!

Started laughing...yes........but once Mom got ahold of me I stopped laughing and ...........well you can probably guess.....Man o man my Mom could pinch, then she'd whisper, in a horrible to hear tone, "Don't you make a sound!" :slaphappy:slaphappy:slaphappy:slaphappy

Uh Huh, I know whatcha talkin bout!!.....mine could also give a "look" that would make ya wanna send out........:sos

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I'm ashamed to admit I got to laughing so hard one time, I had to leave the auditorium, cuz my tears were starting to worry people sitting near me.

We were at a Teacher's Conference, and there was a dear elderly man giving the lesson that afternoon. He was old enough that his chin would make this unique kind of 'quiver' while speaking. It was a fairly serious topic, and we were all in a pretty serious frame of mind. I made the mistake of looking over at my older, more serious-minded friend, who is almost NEVER silly, and she made her chin make that same 'quivering' action with the most comical look on her face.

I got to giggling so bad that I had to plant my face in the pew...and when the tears started coming, and I couldn't keep my sniffles and wheezing to myself, I exited the sanctuary as quickly as I could!

I'm almost positive that fit of laughter was the result of an enormous amount of stress and a LOT of stress was relieved that day, but I will never forget that image of her face immitating that dear, sweet man...I laugh about it to this day! :lol

I will share a story about something that earned me quite a bit of ribbing from the brothers and sisters in this church I used to attend. It involves a testimony service.

I got home from work that day at my usual time. You need to understand that if I get home from work and the first thing I smell is Pine-Sol I get in a very good mood. You also need to understand that my wife went through a time when she was trying to do her hair in different hairstyles. She has kinky hair so basically only had the option of putting it in a bun when she stopped cutting it.

Like I was saying, I get home from work. I walk through the door and immediately smelled Pine-Sol. I was pretty surprised because it was church night and I rarely get to smell Pine-Sol (he that hath an ear hear what the fat man sayeth), so I knew the house had gotten a good cleaning. My wife walked out of the bathroom with her hair done up in the nicest hairstyle I had ever seen her in.

I mean to tell you she looked HOT! She was all dressed up in her church clothes, with her new hair style and all. Well, I am sure you are all guessing what immediately came into my mind. :D I am, afterall, a healthy young man.

After I got my fill of checkin out this hot lookin babe I was lucky enough to be married to, I said the first thing that came to my mind. I said, "Honey, you lookin so good we may not even make it to church tonight!!!" Seeing her that way immediately made me want to partake of the marital blessing. :D

We did go to church that night and, during testimony service, I wanted to brag on my wife a little bit. My intentions were to give God the glory for blessing me with a woman who cared enough to look good whenever we stepped out. Well, I never got even close to giving God any glory.

Instead of keeping it short and sweet, I went into all the details about coming home to a clean smelling house and finding my wife with this new hairstyle and ready to go to church. I shared with the church exactly what I said to her and for a second or two you could have heard a pin drop. All the movement normally associated with a large group of people in one room stopped. Then it happened.

In almost perfect unison, everyone burst out laughing! They laughed and laughed! No matter how hard I tried to dig myself out of saying I almost didn't make it to church because I wanted to have sex with my wife I was unable to get it done. With every comment I made people just laughed that much harder. This continued for about 10 minutes too! Needless to say, the pastor didn't call on me to testify for a few weeks after that! :lol

There was this wedding announcement I heard about once...

If I had been there I think I would still be laughing. :slaphappy

Keep it up, rrford... payday is sometimes a terrible thing!

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Ferd,

God was trying to get this preachers attention to change his message to "thirsting after righteousness". :D

Several times!! But once I remember well was when I was about 9 and my brother was about 12. We sang together and we were singing one Sunday morning in a little country church. Dad had us sing a particular song - "It Happened Like He Said" (won't ever forget it!) and because my brother had been acting goofy one time when we were singing that song in the car, we got to a place in the song and he remembered the goofy thing he did and I did as well and we got tickled. We finally just had to stop singing. Needless to say my Preacher Dad didn't think it was quite as funny! We didn't sing that song much anymore after that!

RICO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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uh....skipped your lithium for a few days huh?:noidea

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My brothers and I used to sing as a Trio and we started singing when we were quite young. We used to sing a song that some of the words stated that "many are called but few are chosen. I can't even remember all the words now, but we used to live in the cold cold northeast. There was one Sunday that it was sooooo cold the furnace was having a very hard time to keep up with heating the building. Well, my brothers and I used to goof around with this song and sing the words, many are cold but few are frozen. We used to tell ourselves to stop or we would sing those words sometime in church when we didn't mean to. Well guess what? On this very coincidental Sunday Morning we were in the upstairs part of the church to be warmer although it was not helping much. We were singing this song and at least 2 of us sang the wrong words. We may as well have just sat down cause we didn't get anything out of the song after that. We have never forgotten it and it is a memory with mentioning any time we get together which is not nearly often enough.

Okay, her's my story:
I remember when I was 2 or 3 years old, I was sitting in momma's lap, when this other sister in the church who had a daughter about my age accidently lifted her dress for me to see. When I saw the ruffles on her undergarment, I laughed so hard that my mother had to leave the sanctuary to calm me down, after a good while she came back to the same pew. The sister that was sitting next to us knew why i was laughing, so she let me once again see the girl's ruffles, I laughed so hard that she had to leave church that night. I don't know why I would remember something like that, I'm not even sure why I thought it was funny then.