Posted by Denise Bethea on October 8, 2009 at 9:54pm
The Dead ChurchA new Pastor in a small Oklahoma town spent the first four days making personal visits to each of themembers, inviting them to come to his first services.The following Sunday the church was all but empty. Accordingly, the Pastor placed a notice in the localnewspapers, stating that, because the church was dead, it was everyone's duty to give it a decentChristian burial. The funeral would be held the following Sunday afternoon, the notice said.Morbidly curious, a large crowd turned out for the "funeral." In front of the pulpit, they saw a closedcoffin, smothered in flowers. After the Pastor delivered the eulogy, he opened the coffin and invited hiscongregation to come forward and pay their final respects to their dead church.Filled with curiosity as to what would represent the corpse of a "dead church," all the people eagerlylined up to look in the coffin. Each "mourner" peeped into the coffin then quickly turned away with aguilty, sheepish look.In the coffin, tilted at the correct angle, was a large mirror.Author is Unknown
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