- The doors are never locked.
- The Call to Worship is, “Y’all come on in!”
- People grumble about Noah letting coyotes on the Ark.
- The Preacher says, “I’d like to ask Bubba to help take up the offering” — and five guys stand up.
- The restroom is outside.
- Opening day of deer hunting season is recognized as an official church holiday.
- A member requests to be buried in his four-wheel drive truck because, “I ain’t never been in a hole it couldn’t get me out of.”
- In the annual stewardship drive there is at least one pledge of “two calves.”
- Never in its entire 100-year history has one of its pastors had to buy any meat or vegetables.
- When it rains, everybody’s smiling.
- Prayers regarding the weather are a standard part of every worship service.
- A singing group is known as “The O.K. Chorale.”
- The church directory doesn’t have last names.
- The pastor wears boots.
- Four generations of one family sit together in worship every Sunday.
- The only time people lock their cars in the parking lot is during the summer and then only so their neighbors can’t leave them a bag of squash.
- The hat rack is full of John Deere and Red Man caps.
- There is no such thing as a “secret” sin.
- Baptism is referred to as “branding.”
- There is a special fund-raiser for a new septic tank.
- Finding and returning lost sheep is not just a parable.
- You miss worship one Sunday morning and by 2 o’clock that afternoon you have had a dozen phone calls inquiring about your health.
- High notes on the organ set dogs in the parking lot to howling.
- People wonder when Jesus fed the 5,000 whether the two fish were bass or catfish.
- It’s not heaven, but you can see heaven from there.
- The final words of the benediction are, “Y’all come on back now, ya hear?”
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