I came across this great joke, and had to share it here.
Watch out for the moral of the story!
The Vicar and the Porsche
A vicar was leaving his parish and at the end of his last service, the parish decided to have a special celebration and bought him a wonderful retirement present — a brand new Porsche.
They asked the senior Churchwarden, a local Judge to come and make the presentation, but the Churchwarden was a bit late for church, so the vicar stood up and asked to say some words at the end of the service.
He said, “I am overwhelmed by your generosity. My wife and I will certainly enjoy it in retirement. However when I first came here I wondered what I had let myself in for. The first person who came to confession in the Confessional told me how he had cheated on his wife, fiddled his expenses, and had cheated his brother out of the family estate.”
“However as I got to know you all I realised that the church wasn’t like that and I have come to love you as a dear Christian family.”
Just as the vicar finished speaking, the Churchwarden arrived, breathless.
He stood up to speak and said, “We have been blessed with a wonderful vicar who really loves us — and you know, I had the privilege of being the first person to use the confessional when our vicar came……”
And the moral of the story is — Don’t be late for Church, you don’t know what you might have missed.
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Spectacular! I fear you may hear it in some of my sermons ….
I shall look forward to that! I can just imagine it in the sermon at someone’s induction service. It could well find its way into one of my sermons one day — of course, I’ll only be able to use it once.