Strange Things That Have Happened To You In Church

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Did this turn out to be Honey Boo Boo's mother?

Originally Posted by CC1

I am amazed that any preacher would continue a wedding ceremony with a drunk bride. The pastor should have called the wedding off and told them if they wanted to get married with her in that condition they would need to go to the Justice of the Peace or whatever local govermental entity in their town / state performed civil weddings.

My thoughts exactly! But since *Honey Boo Boo's mother demanded the wedding proceed... it did!

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Margies3

not at our church, but........ we have a lady who lives here in our town. She is very well-known (and everyone tries hard to avoid her!). She has told multiple lies to people from every church: her daughter is dead or her daughter is in jail or her husband is in jail for burning up her daughter or she never even had a daughter. No one knows which is truth. Soo............

So she's also been kicked out most of the stores and churches in our town for various reasons. Banned from almost all of them.

She is now banned from the local Catholic Church, for two reasons. First they found out that when the people went up to receive communion on Sunday mornings, she was going thru the women's purses and helping herself. And then the real kicker - they caught her red-handed back in the room where they store the communion elements (real wine, remember), loading up the inside pockets of her coat with liquid refreshments. Good grief!!!

You know, most Stephen King novels have a crazy lady which probably acts a lot like this one.

[Disciple4life]

Years ago me and my wife and her mom and dad we visited a new church. It was a country church, this is the kind of church that they loved. Fortunately this one had indoor plumbing. That is beside the point though.
The church had old, old theater seats instead of pews. This little old man came in and flopped down into a seat and it broke. He jumped up and started cussing that it wasn't his fault. Mind you this guy was probably about 100 pound. I really don't think it was his fault but he handled the situation very poorly.
It was funny though everybody started laughing. We couldn't help ourselves.

[Disciple4life]

A friend that I worked with attended a PAW? church and told me this story.
He played bass for the worship service for his church. One Sunday the service was really blessed and they were having a good time worshiping the Lord. The band it just playing a mellow old time gospel type of song. No one was singing the band was just playing worship music while people praised the Lord. Well he did this little fill/riff on his bass where he slapped the string about three times to brake things up and make the music more interesting. No one probably noticed. But the preacher starts screaming into the microphone STOP!!! STOP!!! STOP!!! Then proceeds to reprimand my friend who was playing the bass in front of the whole congregation. This went on for about five minutes. The preacher said the devil and his music would have no place in his church.

My friend was very hurt. He was a preacher also. He kept his mouth shut but he thought all these people are worshiping the Lord and are being blessed and you stop it so you can belittle someone.

[Jack Shephard]

I once saw a man have a stroke in the middle of service. Men in the church carried him out, called for an ambulence and they took him away. The pastor still preached his sermon after we prayed for the man. That may be the sadest.

The funniest was at a church I went to where the they had a tv ministry. During a taping of the Sunday morning service to be broadcast the week after the choir was being introduced prior to singing their first song. The pastor said, "Worship with the choir as they come to sing Let Everything That Has BREASTS, I mean Breathe Praise the Lord." We should have stopped the taping to laugh it off, but that didn't happen. We recorded the rest of the mornings service and they editted the flub out, but all had grins all over our faces the rest of the service. At the end of the taping the choir would sing an outro song. Once the camera lights all lit up that meant the broadcast taping had ended. When the lights on the camera when off we literally ALL stopped singing and laughed like crazy. It was very, very, funny.

[MarcBee]

Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

...and just as she reached the front of the church, she passed out! My husband managed to catch her and blunt her fall. After we got her to come to, she sat on the front pew for a while, and her mother demanded that we continue the ceremony... as did the groom... so the wedding proceeded.

Of course the wedding proceeded. The Holy Bible says, "Marriage is honorable in all,..." Hebrews 13:4

[Abiding Now]

Visiting preacher was really getting excited about preaching and the church was on their feet enjoying the message.

Just as everyone was quieting down and returning to their sits, a visiting homeless guy says really loud, "now that's some d_ _n good preaching".

The visiting preacher says it was one of his best compliments.

[seekerman]

I've seen false teeth spit out while the person was preaching....grabbed them and put them right back in and kept on preaching.

Had a preacher get a 'word from the lord' about me one night while he was preaching, made a show about it from the pulpit, pointing at me and naming me by name, But the thing was the 'word' he got wasn't true. And everyone in church knew it. I don't think he preached at that church anymore.

Saw a man get his nose broken when a shouter fell on him while he was at an altar bench praying with his head down. Blood everywhere.

A kinda heafty man shouted through the wooden floor of our old church. They had to replace a few floor boards before the next service.

Good memories.

[Abiding Now]

The pastor receives the offering and places the offering plates in the pulpit.

After church a kid about 10 years old comes up, casually leans on the pulpit while reaching in and taking a hand full of money out of the plates and stuffing it in his pocket.

I told the pastor, "now there's a kid that really gets something out of going to church".

[Sasha]

I once attended a church where there was a man who would pace back and forth in the back of the church. It was clear there was something wrong with him but everyone knew him and didn't seem to mind.

He was pretty quiet as long as everyone was singing. Actually, the singing 'drowned his epithets out...until the preaching....

While everyone was saying 'Amen!' and 'Hallelujah!', he was in the back, raising his hands and shouting, "That's bull(#^$!" or "(#&$ you!'

No kidding. My mom finally had to stop bringing him to church with her because it was just too embarrassing. Now he only does that in restaurants.