Monday, October 31, 2005

Some Really Stupid Stuff

Every once in a while we come across something really stupid! There is a lot of Holy Junk out there. You know you want one for Christmas. Link to this site "Mr. Preacher" and check out some really stupid things actually for sale in the name of God.

Sunday, October 30, 2005

Hurricane Relief Gone Bad

This story comes from NBC news - we'll let you decide if this is stupid or not! But you can can guess what we think - it's posted here.


CLEWISTON, FL — Hurricane victims who wanted water had some difficulty finding it at a relief station in Clewiston Friday. The volunteer group running a supply center doesn't like the company that donated the water, so they decided not to give it to those in line for help.

Twenty-two pallets of the canned water, distributed free by beer company Anheuser-Busch, bears the company's label – and members of the Southern Baptist Convention refused to hand it out to those in need.

Resident lined up for miles to receive food and water at the distribution point. But the water was left on the sidelines by the Alabama-based group.

"The pastor didn't want to hand out the Budweiser cans to people and that's his prerogative and I back him 100-percent," said SBC volunteer...

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Stupid Choirs

This one courtesy of Monday Morning Insight...

The pastor of a Charlotte Harbor church had 16 church members booted from a service after they allegedly refused to stop singing and let the clergyman preach. Deputies were called at 10 a.m. Saturday by Pastor David Noel of the Seventh Day Adventist Church on Harborview Road. Noel told a deputy he was instructed by regional church superiors to involve law enforcement to remove the rogue choir.

The deputy issued trespass warnings to the group, and all 16 left the church without incident. The sheriff's office got another call from the church shortly before noon when a parishioner wanted to file assault charges against Noel.

Edourd Pierrelus, 57, of Port Charlotte, said Noel got mad at him, hit him in the chest and twisted his earlobe during a church service a week earlier. The man told the deputy the entire congregation of 25 witnessed the attack. Pierrelus said that because of the way the singing dispute was resolved, he now wanted to pursue charges of simple battery.

Deputies say the dispute is rooted in concerns about the handling of church funds. The members of the rogue choir told deputies they'd handle those concerns within the church.

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Paying Staff Based On Attendance

Mark Oestericher posted this one...

A pastor said to me that he loves to try new things. and the thing he’s trying right now that he thinks is such a good idea? [drum roll, please — and brace yourself] He’s paying his staff based on how many people, on average, attend the ministries they are in charge of. He grinned as he told me that, for example, one of the pastors has a fairly low monthly salary, because he’s new and his particular ministry is average-sized; but if the ministry reaches x-amount on average, his pay will bump to another level, and at xx-amount, to another level, which is a great salary for their area. He said it’s a great system because it builds self-motivation in automatically.

He waited for my response.

For reasons I won’t go into, it wasn’t the appropriate time for me to begin vomiting on his church carpet, or pummeling him in front of his church-folk. So I grinned an extremely uncomfortable grin and mumbled something like, “Well, i don’t know….”

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You've heard horror stories of the stupid things pastors and churches have done. Now you have a place to post them. Don't be offended...we've all done stupid things in ministry. We're not here to put people down. It's a fun way to laugh at ourselves and maybe an opportunity to learn from others.

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