Funny Things Happen in Church!

 I love funny stories of things that happened at church, weddings, and yes even funerals.

My dad was a photographer and photographed lots of weddings.  At one, the groom fainted as the ceremony started.  They sat him down on the front row and revived him.  He stood back up and they started again.  He fainted again.  They sat him down and revived him again.  Then, they started again.  He fainted the third time and they took him outside to revive him.  Brought him back in and pronounced them husband and wife.  I would have done the pronouncement after the first faint!

A friend of mine was doing a wedding and the bride began to spit up.  My friend said, "Let us pray."  He said he would pray a little and peek to see if she were done.  When she was finished, he said Amen and started again.  As he came to the conclusion, he was tempted to say, "Ok, it is time to prove your love and kiss her."

A friend attended a wedding where one of the Brides Maids was so nervous a muscle in her bottom began to twitch and captured everyone's attention.

A pastor friend was performing a baptism when the rather large lady panicked and began to struggle and flail her arms throwing water over the glass partition and drenched the members of the choir.

Another friend did a wedding where they had a dog come down the aisle with the rings attached to its collar.

I had just begun a ceremony when the groom and his guys had just come in and he leaned over to me and said, "Could you real quick say a little prayer?'  I asked why and he said, "I just realized my pants are unzipped."  I said, "Hold on and when I have everyone stand for the bride, they will look back up the aisle and you can zip them up."

At one church on Sunday night the youth all sat on the left side of the fan shaped auditorium.  They were doing baptisms.  One of the men being baptized had not worn any underwear under his baptismal gown and as he went up the steps out of the water, his bare backside was visible to the youth group.  They all collapsed with laughter.  No one else could see what they were laughing uncontrollably about and were furious at them for their mis-behavior during baptism.

Grady Nutt told of a friend of his who was doing a graveside service in Texas after a heavy rainstorm.  As he stood at the head of the casket and said, "Let us pray." he suddenly fell silent.  After a couple of moments of his silence, people began to look up and saw him climbing up out of the grave since the ground had collapsed where he was standing.

The pastor of the church where I grew up was baptizing a man when his toupee came off and floated to to the top. 

I hope you have had a smile today.  Have a great week and be aware of God's presence and work in and through your ministry!  And, I would love to hear your funniest church story.

Arliss Dickerson's book, A College Ministry Success Formula, is available at Amazon.com/dp/B091F5S1RF.