What is the funniest thing you have seen in church?

[MennoSota]

Just yesterday, July 2, 2017, I witnessed something that was both mortifying and belly laugh funny at the same time.
I went to my mother's church where the pastor was on vacation. In his stead was an elderly man, probably early-mid 80s, who teaches Sunday School class and had preached for years.

Upon giving the message the man sat down on the stage for the closing hymn. When the hymn was finished he rose up and started shuffling toward the pulpit for closing prayer. As he moved forward, all of a sudden, his trousers dropped down to his ankles. At that moment I had a vision of Mel Brooks in a comedy routine, yet I imagine the man was mortified.

All I know is, when you think you've seen it all...you ain't seen nothin' yet. [emoji56]

So...what's the funniest thing you've ever seen in church?

 

[Rob_BW]

A full pants drop? Yikes.

 

[Scarlett O.]

Decades ago, when I was a teen - a woman came to the podium to sing the special music. She had a beautiful voice and was a dynamic Christian so she was asked to sing once or twice a month. Well, this time when she came to the podium, the pastor came to the podium with her and the pianist began playing an introduction to a song.....

.....obviously, it was going to be a duet. Well, the church had no idea that the pastor could sing.

Just before they took their breath to sing the first note, a little 4 year old sitting in front of me STOOD UP in her seat, placed her hand on the seat in front of her, and YELLED as loud as she could...[which was quite loud!]

"WHAT?!?! THE PREACHER'S GONNA SING!! I GOTTA HEAR THIS!!"

Needless to say, they didn't sing the first note and it took a few minute for everyone to compose themselves.

And when they did start up again, he did have a nice voice after all and they sang duets several more times.

 

[Yeshua1]

Just yesterday, July 2, 2017, I witnessed something that was both mortifying and belly laugh funny at the same time.
I went to my mother's church where the pastor was on vacation. In his stead was an elderly man, probably early-mid 80s, who teaches Sunday School class and had preached for years.

Upon giving the message the man sat down on the stage for the closing hymn. When the hymn was finished he rose up and started shuffling toward the pulpit for closing prayer. As he moved forward, all of a sudden, his trousers dropped down to his ankles. At that moment I had a vision of Mel Brooks in a comedy routine, yet I imagine the man was mortified.

All I know is, when you think you've seen it all...you ain't seen nothin' yet. [emoji56]

So...what's the funniest thing you've ever seen in church?

My former pastor has trouble saying versions of the Bible, so always came out as Virgins!

 

[MennoSota]

I was at a Christmas concert at a rather large church. The children's choir came up on the stage and prepared to sing. Just as they were getting ready to begin, one of the boys in back row lost all his supper all over this cute little girl in front of him. Vomit all in her hair and down her dress. It was simultaneously horrifying and hilarious at the same time. (Of course this was before I was married and had children of my own.) Single adult me was laughing hysterically in the balcony. To the parents of that little girl...if you're reading this...my sincere apologies. [emoji41]

 

[just-want-peace]

When I was about 6-7 YO, had a cousin visiting on a Sunday AM & we were sitting around the third row from the pulpit.
As kids will do, we were talking as the choir was singing. The choir got to a part of the anthem that was a strong crescendo & we upped our volume quite a bit just to be able to hear each other. Suddenly the director cut them off with no scale down, and the entire church could hear us yammering to each other before we realized that we were almost yelling. Very, very embarrassing & I have absolutely no recall of any parental involvement after church; perhaps selective memory!!??

 

[JohnDeereFan]

Just yesterday, July 2, 2017, I witnessed something that was both mortifying and belly laugh funny at the same time.
I went to my mother's church where the pastor was on vacation. In his stead was an elderly man, probably early-mid 80s, who teaches Sunday School class and had preached for years.

Upon giving the message the man sat down on the stage for the closing hymn. When the hymn was finished he rose up and started shuffling toward the pulpit for closing prayer. As he moved forward, all of a sudden, his trousers dropped down to his ankles. At that moment I had a vision of Mel Brooks in a comedy routine, yet I imagine the man was mortified.

All I know is, when you think you've seen it all...you ain't seen nothin' yet. [emoji56]

So...what's the funniest thing you've ever seen in church?

I was in a church that had the practice of passing the bread and juice around during the Lord's Supper, rather than having members come to the altar (and, yes, I know we don't have an altar). When the tray with the grape juice got around to my friend, Phil, the little shot glass he picked was stuck in its hole. Rather than just move on to the next shot glass and passing the tray, he decided he must have that shot glass. He pulled on it and pulled on it until he jerked the tray up and it went flying everywhere and showering everybody in the first three rows with grape juice.

My then-girlfriend had to get up and leave the service because she just couldn't stop laughing. When she finally composed herself, she came back in and sat down. I leaned over to her and started singing "Purple Rain" in her ear and she had to leave again.