Subject: The Sermon
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 10:20:57 EST
"The Sermon"
A preacher became frustrated that a large part
of his congregation was going water skiing on
Sunday rather than coming to church, so he told
his wife, "This coming Sunday, I'm going to preach
about the evils of water skiing on Sunday."
"What?" she exclaimed. "That's a silly thing to
preach about."
"I don't think so," he said. "It's a problem we need
to address."
The next Sunday as they were driving to church,
the wife asked her preacher husband somewhat
warily about the day's sermon topic.
As I told you," he said, "I'm going to preach about
the evils of water skiing on Sundays."
"That's idiotic!" the wife retorted. "First of all, it's a
dumb topic for a sermon, and second, the people
who need to hear it most won't be in church. Why
don't you preach about sex or something most
people are interested in?"
"No. The Lord wants me to preach about the evils
of water skiing on Sundays, and that's what I'm
preaching about," he said firmly.
His wife said, "Well, I'm not going to sit through a
boring sermon like that. I'm staying in the car. You
can tell the congregation I'm sick or something."
And she stayed in the car.
As the preacher walked from the car to his study at
the church, he got to thinking that perhaps his wife
had a valid point, so he changed his mind and gave
a brilliant extemporaneous sermon on the proper
role of sex in modern society.
When the service was over, one of the parishioners
stopped by the preacher's car and remarked to the
pastor's wife, "I'm sorry you're not feeling well this
morning. "Your husband gave the finest sermon
today that he's ever given since coming to this parish."
"Hmmmpf. I don't know why he thinks he's such an
expert on the subject," his wife snapped. "He's only
tried it twice, and he fell off both times."
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