SERMONIC LEFTOVERS
A young pastor in his first charge announced nervously: “I will take for my text the words, ‘And they fed five men with five thousand loaves of bread and two thousand fishes.'” At this misquotation, an old parishioner said audibly: “That’s no miracle — I could do it myself.” The young preacher said nothing, but the next Sunday he announced the same text. This time he got it right: “And they fed five thousand men on five loaves of bread and two fishes.” He waited a moment and then, leaning over the pulpit and looking at the parishioner, he asked, “And could you do that too, Mr. Smith?” “Of course I could,” Smith replied “And how would you do it?” the preacher asked. “With the leftovers from last Sunday,” Smith said. From a flyer from Systems Forms
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