my friend bethany mentioned the other day that i’m overdue for a caption contest. ok – fair enough. found this one on jonny baker’s blog a while back (i think). let’s change the rules for this one a bit. the winning caption could be witty — OR, it could be insightful and semi-pithy! how ’bout that? whatcha got?
CONTENDERS:
After a month of Evangelism sermons, First Pres. decided to take a different approach for their float in this year’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. (robert)
“Would you like your church to be on the right, left, or in the middle?” (molly)
After Pastor John bought the new Dixie Chicks album, the IRS confiscated his buidling. (eric wakeling)
If Purpose can drive a church, why can’t Bubba? (darryl) (though, i think this would have been funnier as “the bubba-driven church”)
The Bubba-Driven Church (andy jack) (yeah, he just said what i said, but i gotta give him credit for creatively laying claim to what i said would be funny!)
The new era of church shopping – we come to you! (scott)
as they approached the on ramp to I95, a twinge of doubt filled pastor Bob’s mind for a minute. He wondered if this whole (holy) “mergin’” church stuff was really a little extreme… (mdaele)
I got it on eBay! (john)
See what happens when you forget CCLI…. (jeff moulton)
’screw those people in the ditches, we’re on the move’ (TCS)
AND THE WINNER IS….
I got it on eBay! (john)
lots of great entries this time around. funny stuff. but, in the end, “i got it on eBay!” was just the funniest. john, let me know what YS book you want!
Jeff Tracy had some concerns over ‘Brains’s’ latest Thunderbird since his conversion experience!
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After a month of Evangelism sermons, First Pres. decided to take a different approach for their float in this year’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
I wonder what that business meeting was like…
“Would you like your church to be on the right, left, or in the middle?”
ooh — molly’s funny caption just made me think of this, as i was looking at the pic again:
“the driver noticed that the church was leaning a bit to the left, and it concerned him.”
After Pastor John bought the new Dixie Chicks album, the IRS confiscated his buidling.
Who says God can’t move an ol’ country church!
Pastor Bob gives new meaning to ‘take your toys and go home’.
Matthew 16 (NIV)
18And I tell you that you are Peterbuilt,[a] and on this truck I will build my church…
If Purpose can drive a church, why can’t Bubba?
“So this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God in Jerusalem. From that day to the present it has been under construction but is not yet finished.” – Ezra 5:16
After having doing student ministry from a trailer for the last 2 years, I can relate to this picture. I think this would be a better option. Having to set up and tear down to do student ministry from a trailer is getting old.
Our new building should be done by june. PTL
Saulnier
“We’re gonna go plant us a church the old-fashioned way.”
“It’s going to take more than a “holy” paint job to get that thing off the ground, Mr. Rocket Farmer.”
or
“The town’s new “alternative church” is going to extreme measures to “reconnect” with church tradition.
“It’s not the size of your steeple that matters, but how you use your church.”
Why come to church, when the church can come to you?
Portable Church, the latest in the new iChurch line!
The Bubba-Driven Church
%$#@%[email protected] elder board!!!
uh, andy? were you being funny by “claiming” what i wrote in the “contenders” section above? or, did you just not happen to see that?
And You thought the NFL was going to go easy on those showing the Super Bowl. now First Baptist can attest to otherwise after this aggressive takeover by the NFL after winning a judgement in court. Moral: First Baptist should of been Raider fans. (That way showing the Super Bowl might not be in the future at all)
Pastor Jones has taken the missional church to the community!
Depends, which one gets me the prize?
Preparations are already under way for the Super Bowl XLII halftime show, which will feature the Gaither Vocal band, Ray Boltz, and what can only be described as a chapel-on-wheels-to-be-converted-into-a-stage, in what should be a Southern Gospel Extravaganza.
The fallout from the wardrobe malfunction continues…
The new era of church shopping – we come to you!
“Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire” has truly taken on a new meaning…
Great pic Marko!
as they approached the on ramp to I95, a twinge of doubt filled pastor Bob\’s mind for a minute. He wondered if this whole (holy) \”mergin\’\” church stuff was really a little extreme…
here is the church, here is the steeple. they’re putting it out to pasture because there aren’t any people.
I got it on eBay!
The New Emergent Church…meeting you where you are…
Wedding to Go! America’s Only Wedding Chapel that comes to you!
[Based on Mark’s floating chapel post]
Moving the building was easy enough, but relocating the cell tower concealed in the steeple proved almost disatrous to local ministry.
“Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!”
I don’t really have another caption, but, seriously, who do we call for this service?
Hey Ma, the new church plant is here!
See what happens when you forget CCLI….
Yeah, let’s see Ty and his crew top this one! Extreme Makeover – Church Edition
(organ not included….)
Thankfully, Ben Franklin’s second lightning rod was a bit more portable.
the latest Jesus Junk entry…a Christian My-Pod storage unit
This is what happens when you trade in your church for a brand new BMW!
(ref: A pastor in Ripon, CA sold the church and the rectory out from under the congregation in 2005, then bought a brand new BMW and drove it down main street! here’s the link: http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/california-pastor-stole-the-whole-church/20070212161209990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001)
First Fundamental: We choose the narrow road!
Ed took the idea of church planting a little further than most
The path is narrow…….That leadeth to the new church site!
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I’m trying to think of one, but I honestly don’t think I can top “I got it on eBay!”
That’s awesome.
Facing financial difficulties, not only was the pastor reduced to three-quarters time, but the church building as well, spending one-forth of the week 6 miles down the road as a Cracker Barrel.
‘headed to a museum near you’
or
‘screw those people in the ditches, we’re on the move’
Come Join us at First UMC…We’re a Church on the move!
Somebody at the Elder’s meeting misunderstood the phrase “The Church needs to go into the world.”