Importanţa contextului

The preacher got up in church one Sunday morning and told the congregation, „Brothers and sisters, we are going to have to do something about people parking behind the church at night. I was out there this morning and there are enough beer cans out there to build a car.”

One of the old sisters stood up and said, „Amen brother and enough rubbers to put tires on it.”

A young boy called the pastor of a local „corner” church to ask the pastor to come by to pray for his mother who had been very ill with the flu. The pastor knew the family and was aware they had been attending another church down the road. So the pastor asked, „Shouldn’t you be asking Brother Simon down the road to come by to pray with your mom?”

The young boy replied, „Yeah, but we didn’t want to take the chance that he might catch whatever it is that Mom has.”

Deturnare

The priest is repairing the church fence. A boy is standing nearby for a long while. The priest asks him: „Do you want to speak with me, my son?”

„No, I’m just waiting.”

„Waiting for what?”

„Waiting to hear what a priest says when he hits his finger with a hammer.”

A hat was passed around a church congregation to take up an offering for the visiting minister. Presently it was returned to him… embarrassingly empty.

Slowly the parson inverted the hat and shook it meaningfully. Then raising his eyes heavenward, he exclaimed, „I thank you, Lord, that I got my hat back from this congregation.”