May 21, 20188 yr 16 hours ago, Suckrates said: He was talkin bout LOVE, I got that after the first minute. He could have stopped there....But twenty minutes later still yappin.... Did you see the guests faces ? They were NOT pleased. They got off easy. One long-ago summer Sunday in our little Southern Baptist church here, the preacher started his sermon at 11:30am, half an hour into the planned one-hour-long service -- but then a great big old thundershower broke out. Raining cats and dogs, and lightning and thundering like unto hell itself had opened up. So, to spare us having to make our way out to our cars in the men's suits & ties & the women's equivalently formal Sunday get-up with no umbrellas, he preached, and preached -- and preached! -- until finally the skies let up at 12:45pm or so. Lord have mercy! He was very good, though. There are no better homiletics teachers than at the Southern Baptist theological seminaries hereabouts. (Which BTW have nought but utter disdain for the intolerant ignorances that have for long now held sway at the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas [which may lately be changing; but we will withhold judgment until we see a lot more evidence]). One very good such school right up the road from me... https://www.sebts.edu/
May 21, 20188 yr Active Members 53 minutes ago, AdamSmith said: They got off easy. One long-ago summer Sunday in our little Southern Baptist church here, the preacher started his sermon at 11:30am, half an hour into the planned one-hour-long service -- but then a great big old thundershower broke out. Raining cats and dogs, and lightning and thundering like unto hell itself had opened up. So, to spare us having to make our way out to our cars in the men's suits & ties & the women's equivalently formal Sunday get-up with no umbrellas, he preached, and preached -- and preached! -- until finally the skies let up at 12:45pm or so. Lord have mercy! He was very good, though. There are no better homiletics teachers than at the Southern Baptist theological seminaries hereabouts. (Which BTW have nought but utter disdain for the intolerant ignorances that have for long now held sway at the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas [which may lately be changing; but we will withhold judgment until we see a lot more evidence]). One very good such school right up the road from me... https://www.sebts.edu/ OK, but this was The Royal Wedding, NOT the Rev Curry Show....... Noone was there to see HIM...... Plus the fact that he kept repeating himself... With a little editing, he could have been done in 5 minutes, which would have been MORE than enough.
May 21, 20188 yr 22 minutes ago, Suckrates said: OK, but this was The Royal Wedding, NOT the Rev Curry Show....... Noone was there to see HIM...... Plus the fact that he kept repeating himself... With a little editing, he could have been done in 5 minutes, which would have been MORE than enough. You must be a (Jewish) Methodist!
May 21, 20188 yr Active Members 29 minutes ago, AdamSmith said: You must be a (Jewish) Methodist! Shalom Aleichem ! (we can post in other languages HERE, right ?)
May 21, 20188 yr Active Members 2 hours ago, Suckrates said: OK, but this was The Royal Wedding, NOT the Rev Curry Show....... Noone was there to see HIM...... Plus the fact that he kept repeating himself... With a little editing, he could have been done in 5 minutes, which would have been MORE than enough. For years one member of my church's Board of Elders (governing body) sat in a second row pew. If the sermon ran over 12 minutes he would lean forward, shoot his sleeve, lay his arm ostentatiously over the back of the first pew and tap his watch. Since the Elders in our church hire, fire approve expenses and set the salary of the preacher, folks always got out in plenty of time to eat before settling in to watch the game on TV. The congregation was in general agreement that if you couldn't make your point in 12 minutes, you weren't likely to do any better in 30 and, in all fairness, the duration of the scripture reading the sermon was based on wasn't included in the 12 minutes.
May 22, 20188 yr 20 hours ago, MsGuy said: For years one member of my church's Board of Elders (governing body) sat in a second row pew. If the sermon ran over 12 minutes he would lean forward, shoot his sleeve, lay his arm ostentatiously over the back of the first pew and tap his watch. Since the Elders in our church hire, fire approve expenses and set the salary of the preacher, folks always got out in plenty of time to eat before settling in to watch the game on TV. The congregation was in general agreement that if you couldn't make your point in 12 minutes, you weren't likely to do any better in 30 and, in all fairness, the duration of the scripture reading the sermon was based on wasn't included in the 12 minutes.
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