

A Deacons Ordination
"Sam, what part of the Bible do
you like best?"
"Well, Sir, I like the New
Testament best, Sir."
"What book in the New
Testament?"
"What book, Sir? What, book? I
think it's the book of parables, Sir."
"Would you kindly relate one of
those parables to this council?"
Poor Sam was up against it, but
there was a possibility that the members of the council knew no more about their
Bibles than he did. He decided to make a bold attempt, and proceeded as follows:
"Once upon a time a man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among
thieves and the thorns grew up and choked that man and he went on and he didn't
have no money and he met the Queen of Sheba, and she gave that man - she gave
that man, sir, a thousand talents of gold and silver and a hundred changes of
raiment's. And when he was driving along under a big tree, his hair got caught
in a limb and left him a hanging there. Yes, Sir. And he hung there many days
and many nights and the ravens brought him food to eat and water to drink. And
one night while he was hanging there asleep, his wife, Delilah, come along and
cut his hair off, and he dropped and fell on stony ground and it began to rain.
And it rained forty days and forty nights. And he hid himself in a cave. And the
man went out into the highways and byways and compelled him to come in. He went
on and come to Jerusalem and he seen Queen Jezebel sitting high up in the window
and when she saw him she laughed and he said, "Throw her down out of there," and
they threw her down. And he said, "Throw her down again," and they threw her
down, seventy times seventy and the fragments they picked up were twelve
baskets full. Now whose wife will she be in the days of judgment?"
There was no one on the council
who felt qualified to
question the candidate further,
and he was passed.
~~Author Unknown~~








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