A little levity to help the summer heat :)
At a local river a Pentecostal pastor was holding a Sunday morning
baptism service, saying a couple quick words, dipping folks in,
submerging them, pulling them back up and each confirming their faith
with some small word of acknowledgement. A man stumbling home from
the previous night's revelry, yet intoxicated, happened his way into
line. Finally, he made his way up to the front of the line to the
preacher. The preacher, happy to see a new face in line, spoke a few
quick words, dunked the man under, pulled him up and said, "Have you
found Jesus?"
The drunken man, a little taken back, said, "No, sir, I haven't". The
preacher, not sure what to do with the response, dunked the man under
again, holding him under a little longer than the first time , pulled
him back up and asked, "Have you found Jesus?"
The man, a little more swaggered from the experience, hiccupped and
stammered, "No, ah hiccup, no, I haven't".
The preacher was getting a bit irritated with the responses, grabbed
the man, dunked him under and held him down for nearly a full minute,
yanked him back up and said, "For the love of God, man, have you
found Jesus?"
The man looked at the preacher and said,
"Um, hiccup, No. Are you sure this is where he fell in?"
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