Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: credmond@watmath.waterloo.edu (Chris Redmond) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Christian jokes Message-ID: Date: 9 Nov 90 05:44:38 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Waterloo Lines: 36 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu If we are going to get into preacher-and-sermon jokes, here's a story (supposedly true) from 19th century Canada, when Presbyterians -- many of them first-generation emigrants from Scotland -- took their "kirk" very, very seriously. It seems that the young minister preached his sermon on the familiar text from Revelation 3:20: Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him. And after the service, the elders came up to have a word with the young man. "That was a verrry fine sermon, verrry fine," said the oldest of them. "And a verrry fine text, too, young man. But for our taste here, the second half of it is just a leeetle too Methodist." [Anybody require an explanation of the difference between Presbyterian-Calvinist theology, with its emphasis on God's sovereignty, and Methodist-Arminian theology, with its emphasis on the human response?] CAR credmond@watmath [Another joke on the same text. A preacher went to call on a member of his congregation. He saw movement in the apartment, so he knew someone was there, but no one would answer the door. He left a note saying "Rev 3:20." The next Sunday, a woman came up to him and handed him a note saying "Gen 3:10". Presumably he had come at a bad time... --clh]