Wisdom

"Mark 17"

A minister told his congregation, "Next week I plan to preach
about the sin of lying. To help you understand my sermon, I
want you all to read Mark 17."

The following Sunday, as he prepared to deliver his sermon,
the minister asked for a show of hands. He wanted to know
how many had read Mark 17.

Every hand went up.

The minister smiled and said, "Mark has only 16 chapters.
I will now proceed with my sermon on the sin of lying."

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"Wisdom"

A pastor and a soap maker went for a walk together.
The soap maker said, "what good is religion? Look
at all the trouble and misery of the world! Still there,
even after years--thousands of years--of teaching
about goodness and truth and peace. Still there,
after all the prayers and sermons and teachings.
If religion is good and true, why should this be?"

The pastor said nothing. They continued walking
until he noticed a child playing in the gutter.

Then the pastor said, "Look at that child. You say
that soap makes people clean, but see the dirt on
that youngster. Of what good is soap? With all the
soap in the world, over all these years, the child is
still filthy. I wonder how effective soap is, after all!"

The soap maker protested. "But, Pastor, soap
cannot do any good unless it is used!"

"Exactly!" replied the pastor.
Received on Sun Jul 15 07:21:00 2007