posted by: PirateGirl (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (6:48 am)
...It was a dark and stormy night...
Good start to your Novel PD! - ( I think the butler did it )
posted by: surrogate (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (6:54 am)
Sweet Lady says that wouldn't be sufficient reason to cancel worship services in a Baptist Church.
Might make coffee hour a little stilted though.
posted by: emerging (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (7:17 am)
A good guest preacher would leave him hanging and use him as a sermon illustration.
Has it been a bad week? This isn't a sign of things to come at your church, I hope?
posted by: PastorDave (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (7:17 am)
Reply to: PirateGirl
Maybe the Chairman Of The Deacons did it?
posted by: PastorDave (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (7:20 am)
Reply to: surrogate
Oh, there would be a guest minister in by the next Sunday. A fine memorial service would ensue, and the church would experience a growth spurt in the next three weeks. And they might plant a tree in the courtyard in memory of the pastor, complete with a plaque and a noose hanging from the limb.
posted by: PastorDave (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (7:25 am)
Reply to: emerging
Sermon illustration? Fine idea!
No, it's been a good week. Like most ministers I guess, on Mondays I am exhausted from the emotional drain of the weekend. The old saying is that every minister resigns on Monday. But I actually know of an account, at a Baptist church, in which the pastor hung himself in the baptistery. Many of the church members surmised he was probably going to Hell, since he committed "the unpardonable sin". And this is a pretty negative direction for me to go with what is intended as a light-hearted post. Well, just how lighthearted can I be with the subject? Guess I'd best shut-up for now....
posted by: PirateGirl (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (7:28 am)
Reply to: PastorDave
Hmmmmm....curiouser and curiouser!
posted by: emerging (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (7:32 am)
Reply to: PastorDave
Pretty typical - people standing around conjecturing about where the preacher ends up, but not much introspection about how they might've contributed to sending him on his journey in the first place!
posted by: OldSchool (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (8:13 am)
Maybe there was something funny put in the incense...
Maybe he had partaken in a little too much of the holy wine...
Maybe it was a gang of unhappy parrisioners who did and made it look like a suicide...
The possibilities are endless.
posted by: auntconi (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (8:15 am)
What a friend we have in Jesus!
Amen!
posted by: bawdy (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (11:41 am)
He left the light on? Way to waste electricity. Good riddance!
posted by: PastorDave (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (12:30 pm)
Reply to: bawdy
You would make a fine church member. How dare that preacher waste electricity!
posted by: PastorDave (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (12:31 pm)
Reply to: auntconi
What a friend we have in Jesus
All our sins and griefs to bear.
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer.
Good song.
posted by: PastorDave (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (12:32 pm)
Reply to: OldSchool
So, it seems, you think this novel has promise. I'll share the first chapter as soon as it is written.
posted by: fractalmom (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (1:10 pm)
old school doesn't know the baptists very well LOL
posted by: PastorDave (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (1:17 pm)
Reply to: fractalmom
Well, his 3rd suggestion could work....
posted by: auntconi (reply)
post date: 05.26.08 (7:04 pm)
Reply to: PastorDave
That is a favorite song of mine!
posted by: fractalmom (reply)
post date: 05.27.08 (10:20 am)
Reply to: PastorDave
now THAT one is possible ::grin:::
posted by: ggirl (reply)
post date: 05.30.08 (11:15 am)
Yikes. I've heard several stories of suicide by ministers and priests. I don't think I've ever heard of one that occurred in the church, though.
I have you're rested now.
