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You know you're a Church of Christ if... 08-12-08 01:04am EST
1.Your bible comes equipped with your birthday, name in gold, and date of baptism.
2.Your ‘‘what I did last summer essay‿ involves Mexican children or building houses.
3.Bikini is not in your vocabulary.
4.You have a home-schooled friend that doesn’t bug you.
5.You married someone you grew up with.
6.Retreat romances are not uncommon.
7.Instead of playing homemaker, you played communion.
8.Disfellowship is your worst fear
9.Your Sunday lunch motto is ‘’Beat the Baptist’’
10.You own at least one shirt with a bible verse on it.
11.You are engaged, and you’re only 22.
12.You get laughed at when you explain you’re future college… and all its rules.
13.FC is known as "The Marriage Factory."
You grew up thinking contribution was part of the Lord's Supper.
15.Every church you've attended was named after the city or the road it was on.
16.You know the 1st, 2nd and 4th verses to nearly every song in the book.
17.You were 18 years old before you knew that "guardguideanddirectus" was not one word.
18.You can read shape notes.
19.You immediately reach for your wallet when you hear the phrase, "Now, separate and apart from the Lord's Supper..."
20.You always carry an extra mint or a piece of gum for "after communion"
21.If deciphering Elizabethan voice in English literature / Shakespeare is no problem from years of reading the KJV . . .
22.if your hands (not the rest of your body) have ever been blessed for preparing the meal.
23.You know you're a Church of Christ if you can quote Acts 2:38. 24. if you grew up as playing baptism as one of your pool games.
25.If you're 20 years old and you still have someone making sure you are in your room by 11:30!
26.you've been told "that's my pew" by someone older than your grandmother
27.If you think the Bible questions on Jeopardy are way too easy.
28.If you've been to a wedding or a funeral where "the invitation" was offered
If some part of the building has stain glass real or plastic, and lots of plastic ivy plants to spice up the stage on Sundays..
30.if your granddaddy was an elder, your dad is an elder, your uncle is an elder, and your brother is scared.
31.if your younger sister is commenting on Swiss cheese and you break out in "Holy, Holy, Holy"
32.if you pray for your Christian friends to "get baptized" instead of "get saved"
33.if you're indignant with the advent of gauchos, capris and Bermuda shorts--had they come along sooner, they would have made summer camp dress code SO much easier
34.Left Behind is a strange Baptist teaching.
35.You know what its like to wear a swimsuit, a (DARK!!!) t-shirt, and (DARK) knee-length shorts in the water (and shoes, where applicable).
36.If you haven't been allowed to read a scripture in class b/c you don't have the right version.
37.If you hear the steps to salvation at least once in EVERY sermon!!!!
38.When shaking someone's hand, you also grab their forearm or pat them on the right shoulder
39.If you have to warn visitors of what they can and can't do.
40.If you think going to church Sunday Morning, Sunday Night, and Wednesday Night = Heaven
41.if you've ever had to wait around at church because there was a "men's business meeting"
42.if the highlight of your summer is the midnight hike at camp
43.if you have a preference towards one kind of communion cracker over another
44.if you plan on teaching your children with flannel boards
45.if you have practiced the time-keeping hand motions while singing to yourself in the car
46.You have never seen the first half of the Super Bowl.
47.if you've grown up hearing the CoC referred to as "The Lord's Church" or "THE Church"
48.You know you're a coC if you have bets on which youth group couples will get married first.
49.You sign all letters, e-mails, and love notes messages 'In Him' or 'With Christian Love'."
50.You've seen someone pitch a song with a tuning fork.
51.you thought ebon pinion was a person
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