A MOST UNUSUAL FUNERAL SERVICE

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Once upon a time, a church extended a call to a minister. The necessary amenities took place and he accepted the call. However, he had not long been at his labors before he decided that if the church was not dead, it at least was as close to this condition as possible. Therefore, exactly one month after his arrival, he sent out the following letter to the members of the congregation.

“Dear Members:
On next Sunday morning, a funeral service will be held for our church. You are urged to attend and pay your last respects.”

Needless to say, on the next Sunday morning, church attendance looked like Easter, Christmas and Judgment Day all rolled up into one. Curiosity as to exactly what a funeral service for a dead church might be like had stirred up, shaken out and brought forth members who hadn’t been seen for years. As each entrant moved through the doors into the sanctuary, the very first thing they saw was a plain, gray closed casket just beneath the pulpit and at the head of the aisle. There were no flowers. The music was played so soft one had to strain to hear it. Soon there no longer room inside so chairs were set up on the lawn and a makeshift loud-speaker system was activated.

At last, the minister entered from a side door, moved forward and began to speak;
“Dear friends, it does my heart good to see this church had so many who cared and that it has not been forgotten in this time of sorrow.”

He made several other comments about its untimely death and how the community would feel its loss and then he said, “I will now ask the undertaker to remove the lid from the casket so that you may each view the remains of your dead church.”

Slowly the members of the congregation came down the aisle and to the casket and looking down each one saw his or herself reflected in a mirror.

“I pray that your hearts will be flooded with lights so that you can see something of the future He has called you to share. I want you to realize that God has been made rich because we who are Christ’s have been given Him! “ Ephesians 1: 18 TLB

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