Joke of the Week

FUNNY BAPTISM STORY

The following story occurred at a small church in back-country Georgia during a husband-and-wife immersion:

From what I was told, it was one of those cozy arrangements in which the deacons have to move the pulpit and lift the floorboards to expose the baptistery. Sheets were hung over wires to form a "dressing room" on each side of the baptismal tank. The husband had already been baptized and returned to change into his clothes when his overweight wife descended the rickety stairs to the water. But the last step cracked and collapsed under her. As she lunged forward staggering past the pastor, her arms wildly flailing out for something to grasp, she caught the sheet on the opposite side and tore it down, exposing her shocked husband to the whole congregation. As he stood there without his robe, he made a quick and stunning decision. Diving headfirst into the baptistery, he disappeared for safe hiding. I don't know how many hymns they had to sing to bring the congregation back into line after that performance.