Missing The Point
Isn’t it amazing how sometimes we get all tangled up with the words we speak
and end up not being clear about what we’re trying to say? Back when I was
in high school I had a poster that read, "I know you think you understand
what I said, but what you don’t understand is that what I said wasn’t what I
meant." Are you ever misunderstood? I’ve noticed that it happens everywhere,
at work, at home, at school. Believe it or not, it even happens at church.
Every so often, Abigail Van Buren in her column, Dear Abby, runs a list of
church bulletin misprints and church sign bloopers that prove that we in the
church occasionally have problems saying what we mean. Here are some recent
ones:
The bulletin of a church in Iowa announced: The Low Self-Esteem Support
Group will meet Thursday from 7 to 8:30p.m. Please use the back door.
Another church’s bulletin carried this announcement: Due to the Pastor’s
illness, Wednesday’s healing services will be discontinued until further
notice.
During a service one preacher made this announcement: "This being Easter
Sunday, we will now ask Mr. Vassilas to come forward and lay an egg on
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