Those "you've been framed" worship moments II

[t_rib]

That is funny, (sorry Luke)! You know we love you really, don't you?

[t_rib]

Today we had an interactice service at Church where the youth prepared & took the service. Well, their theme was "worship" and they asked various things about worship - one was "what can hinder worship?" one young boy stood up and said "parents". A while later we had another question - "what makes us worship?" and that same boy stands up again and says "parents" we all burst out laughing...

Of course, you have to be there to think it was funny! (sorry if it was not funny at all, but I felt a little left out cos I had not put anything funny up yet!?)

[Tim.C]

Some of these stories are going slightly away from 'Worship Moments' , but that's fine, and let's me add one.

Not up to the high standard of james but anyway....

Back in the days when I went to church as a non-Christian, (and everyone there new I wasn't a Christian, just the boy friend of Rachel visiting for the weekend) I only used to go to the family service.

However, one week Rachel decided to go to communion as well, and I said I would walk up to church for the family service that starts after a coffee break between the two.

Anyway, I got up late, everyone had already gone, but I knew where and when to go.

So I dutifully walked up to church, making sure I arrived at 5 to 11:00 - couldn't bear the embarresment of walking in late !!
I walked through the one door into the church (straight in, no lobby or anything) and into......

you guessed it - the finally prayers of the communion service, due to finish at 11:00 - right in a silent bit, creaky door and everything.

D'Oh

I've never got the time wrong since !!!


Tim.C

[revjames]

T - his reaction was to stand there like a stunned mullet! and no actually (for a change) it wasnt me although I may have contributed some flour!


Mark, you should have done the Darth Vader post on 4th May. Then you could have said to Luke "May the 4th be with you"!!!!

Sorry

[Alyson]

I can really empathise with you on that one, Tim. About three years ago I had driven up to Leeds to collect our daughter when she finished work on Christmas Eve. We were almost back on home territory when she asked if we could get to our Parish church for midnight communion. Time at that point was just gone 11.30. (Well, we thought midnight communion meant what it said! ) We made good time on the last stretch of the journey and went rushing up the church path around 11.50.

Like you, we had the creaky door... which opened at the side of the church where folk were already well into queuing up for communion.. so we joined in..... then spoke to loads of friends a few minutes later, at the end of the service (around midnight! ) and explained why we were so late... well, we had just been driving for over 3 hours, so it wasn't bad really!

We went to the same service this year, but daughter was already home so there was no late night dash and I made sure I found out what time the service actually began!

God bless.

Alyson

[revjames]

T - thats so true about parents!!!


We had one bloke (with the Lord now) who always without fail would put his clock the wrong way when it came to daylight saving. He would either be standing on the doorstep wondering where everyone was or would come in at the end of the service wondering why it had started early! If you put your clock the wrong way (ie back instead of forward) then you will be 2 hours late/early!

[Green78]

Well, I have nothing real to offer on this one, though I can think funny hypotheticals.

Ok, humour is subjective and I'm afraid I still laugh at toilet based stuff That "set our farts on fire" thing cracks me up, its good to laugh isn't it? Do you think and Jesus wept included when he was laughing at such stuff.

Anyway, will anyone admit to letting rip in a time of worship? Come on, you know you all have... Someone confess their sin first (I'm admitting nothing!)

[Tim.C]

The idea is that he will show photo's of the father's of the blokes on stage on the screen and the congregation have to guess which dad belongs to whom.

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On a similar topic - how scary is this ??????

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Tim.C

[t_rib]

Now Tim,

Is that you when you were younger - or your dad? Be honest! (I think it looks just like you!)

T

[Tim.C]

Actually, that picture (of my Dad in 1957) looks more like me than my Avatar !!!!!!!!!



I have a picture of me somewhere I was going to put up as comparison, but couldn't find it. (have remembered which it is now though - note to self - Spiney !)

Tim.C

[ekim]

what can I say? There have been some awsome stories on this thread. I made the mistake of reading them at work and at one point had to cover my mouth because all the laughing was getting out of control. I think I'm gonna have to look in my drawer of "memories" and see if I can find some stories to compete with.

[Luke]

That is funny, (sorry Luke)! You know we love you really, don't you?

I must admit, I did laugh out loud - As I said to the pastor: It's the first time anyone's made a connection between my name and Star Wars... ...TODAY!!!

When I was growing up 'Luke' was about as normal a name as 'Jehosaphat' or "Nebuchadnezzar" but then Star Wars was released and it's gradually become more popular.

Actually I've always been proud of my name - it means 'light' and my mum & dad said that they chose it cos I was the 'light' of their lives he he

[hev1]

It was sunday morning service, and it was my turn to bring out the bread and the wine ready for the communion table. The church was full and was about to settle down as I walked through the door carrying this communion tray in both hands. As I came down the ramp and onto the platform my underskirt slid to the floor and was around my ankles on the floor! I quickly stepped out of it and carried on as if nothing had happened, only thing was I forgot that my underskirt was still on the floor! I had sat down before I realised what I had done, there were many smiles and giggles, and hands over mouths as I raised my eyebrows and picked it up and slunk off to my seat!

[hev1]

I was in the worship team on a sunday morning, the holy spirit was so beautiful that day, and spoke to many of us during the service. After the service a woman came up to me and said "The Lord really spoke to me through you on the platform this morning" obviously I was pleased that the lord had used me, she then said " I was praying Lord I dont know if this is the town that you want me to live in, I believe Im on the right track but feel as if your turning me inside out" I began to wonder what the Lord had revealed to her from watching me worship, she then said "God has a wonderful sense of humour Heather, as I prayed that prayer the lord told me to open my eyes to look at you, my eyes fell upon your skirt, there flapping in the breeze was a lable on the side seam, and I realised that you had your skirt on inside out! I knew then that the Lord was showing me that my thoughts were right. I looked down, and sure enough there it was, inside out labels on display for everyone to see, and every one had seen, and didnt let me forget it either!

[Jonny]

I thought it was about time we resurrected this thread - especially after what happened to me on Sunday.

For a change I was playing guitar rather than bass, and our 2nd pianist was on. She looks to me for a lead and follows what I do. I guess that was the first mistake.

Second mistake was trying to keep singing all the verses of "O God of burning cleansing flame". I'm not that familiar with the verses after the 2nd one and I realised that I had lost my place in the music after playing a wrong chord in a particularly bad place. So I was concentrating on trying to get back to the right place and for some reason thought - Oh yes, we're going for the ending here - big splash, big ending, rall on the last repeat of "send the fire today".

So we all stopped. Guitar. Piano. Bass. Drums. Clarinet. Congregation. And then I'm aware that everyone's looking at me.

"I don't know how many verses you've got in your music" says the minister. "But we've all got another one!"

Yes, I had successfully pulled the congregation up one verse too soon. How embarrassing.

Mind you, afterwards people said that at first they all thought they must be wrong because that's the first time they can remember me making a mistake like that and I looked as though I knew what I was doing, so they all thought I was right and they were wrong. For a couple of seconds until realisation set in ...