A young clergyman

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A young clergyman, fresh out of seminary, thought it would help him to
better understand the fears and temptations his future congregations
faced
if he first took a job as a policeman for several months. He passed the
physical examination; then came the oral exam to test his ability to
act
quickly and wisely in an emergency.

Among other questions, he was asked, "What would you do to disperse a
frenzied crowd?"

He thought for a moment and then said, "I would take up a collection."

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In a cartoon simply dated 2000, Tim Walburg of Wyoming, Michigan, depicts
what many of us preachers have experienced: The service is over and people
are leaving church. The pastor is greeting each person as he walks past. One
man grabs the pastor's hand and says with enthusiasm, "Excellent sermon,
Pastor!" and the pastor says, "I didn't preach today!"
The caption at the bottom of the cartoon reads, "Sometimes it's easy to
tell who slept through the service." :wink:

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The preacher had just concluded a hot and scathing sermon on the sin of
swearing. He had stated several times that he knew that one of his hearers
was guilty.
The service ended. The worshippers one by one filed out the door. The
first to go was a woman never suspected of using foul language. With a red
and angry face she exclaimed, "I will never darken this door again." Before
the astonished preacher could recover from this blast, another said, "Well,
brother, if I had known you were near last week, I would have been more
careful of my language."
A third said, "I think that you might at least have come to me privately
about it, rather than telling it to the whole church." A fourth remarked
angrily, "I was never so embarrassed in all of my life."
Then came the real culprit-the one at whom the preacher had aimed all his
remarks. With a bland and innocent smile he grasped the hand of the preacher
and said, "Brother, that was what I call a real sermon. You certainly did
pour it on them today!"