There are some good slips/blunders on the Ship of Fools site today. Here are some of the best ones which I thought you might chuckle at! I think they're all true.
ALAN HOWLETT writes: I was at a church in Aldershot around 1988 when the engagement of two of the church's young people was announced. There was much clapping, but only the groom was present. The leader of the meeting noted the absence of his bride-to-be and then helpfully suggested that the man should...
... give her the clap when he goes home.
RODNEY OLIVER writes: A priest in Ballarat, Australia, had been a professional musician before he was ordained. As a student he used to make pocket money by playing one of the few theater organs left. He bought a tiny keyboard ? one of the ones that seemed to have an endless range of imitating other instruments.
He took it to a Mothers' Union meeting and played all sorts of music on it. Next Sunday in the pew notes was a report of the meeting. It concluded with...
The Vicar spent the last half hour of the meeting entertaining the ladies with his little organ. They were all delighted, and are hoping that he will come again next month.
ISABEL CLARK from Peterborough, UK, writes: In the recent edition of our local Christian newsletter, our Friday night service was listed as...
A service of prayer and medication.
At the first meeting after the publication, she says, all the worship leaders were suffering from flu. Perhaps it was prophetic...
ADAM VAN WART writes from Burleson, Texas: This past Easter our church decided to have a special communion service. We are currently meeting in a borrowed auditorium with stadium seating. For everyone's convenience, there were two communion tables located down in the front of the room and one up at the top of the room in the back. The plan was for everyone to go to the nearest table, pray, take communion and then go sit back down.
My pastor got up to explain the process to everyone, as this is not the normal way we do communion. He explained it like this...
All of you interested in taking communion may do so as you feel led. For your convenience there are two tables here up front and one up in the rear of the room. So if you don't want to take communion down here in front, you can take it up the rear.
Needless to say, my wife and I took communion in the front of the room.