I'm late coming in on this thread but try this on for size:

CELL PHONES!!!!!

No matter how many times people are reminded to turn the blessed things off, they leave them on. And they ring in church.

Situation #1: in the middle of communion, a cell phone goes off. Does the guy w/ the phone turn it off? No. He answers it, hiking down the aisle, and conversing in a normal voice. "Oh, that's OK, I'm just in church." He's lucky the ushers didn't take him out.

Situation #2: at the very beginning, the priest takes his place at the end of the procession, he's about to open and....a cell phone rings. Absolutely fed up w/ the phones, he looks the person dead in the face and says, "Oh, maybe that's the Lord calling. Tell him to call back in an hour!" No other cell phones rang that day.........

There's others but that'll do for now.

Adrienne (PNAM-2003)
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Situation #1: What's wrong with that fool? Doesn't he know that Communion is probably the most sacred part of church service?? He deserves a pimp slap for this one. :mad:

Situation #2: I must admit I probably would've had to hold my laugther on this one.

1.Did anybody say anything about SEASONAL members Easter, Mother's Day, etc.)?

2.When people join the church and never come back.

3. The same devotional songs EVERY Sunday

LOL...we call them CME's- Christmas, Mother's Day and Easter churchgoers! :D

1. I cannot stand it when illiterate children read the church announcements! Not small kids either. Seniors in High School. Folks just clap and the parents look proud.... :rolleyes:

2. I visited a church that made a young, unmarried woman apologize to the congregation for "getting myself in this situation"... WTF? :eek: What about the man who got her pregnant?

Probably some of the fresh deacons that have a weekness for looking at booties.....................:p :D

And the Easter Sunday members are sitting there in their Sunday best, just as clean as they wanna be...........UNTIL you ask them what did the pastor preach about???:eek:

OHHHH!! When the lady next to me sings louder then the choir is singing.

OHHHH!! When the lady with the biggest and broadest hat sits directly in the front of me.

OHHHH!! When the pastor doesn't have a point.

crimsontide - i totally feel you with the whole preacher's wife thing. no way i could do that. i'd have too many choice words for some of those fake mofo's.
okay, let me see if i can think of any that aren't on here already.
1. parents letting their kids (old and young) do whatever they want, disturbing everyone around them. or when the parents hit their kids in church. NO! uncalled for, take them outside and take care of it.
2. the money thing gets me. i can't even go into it either. when that kind of thing happens at a church, i refuse to attend ever again.
3. the whole length of service thing does get to me, but for the same reasons as what was already said. when it's long b/c of announcements and not real worship and teaching.


shelley j
sigma k

1. When a tall azz family sits in front of you. You move, then another tall azz family sits in front of you.

2. People smoking cigs on the parking lot.

3. People attending multi-racial churches, yet bigoted as hell.

4. Being required to shake hands with our neighbors after worship. There's too many things going around for that.

5. Taking things to far.
a. The audience being required to stand up whenever the pastor walks to the pulpit.
b. Being encouraged to purchase books of other religions at Borders so you can burn them up. :eek: (thankfully this wasn't suggested at MY church, but the person from my church who told that story didn't find anything wrong with it, neither anyone else listening to her story)

when our organist rocks out like he's The Phantom of the Opera or something. I appreciate your spirit dude but take it down a notch...it's early in the morning. :)

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booyaka booyaka dey light come and me wanna go home???

Sounds like the church I just left....

This is so wrong on so many levels!!

I'm in a fairly unique position as to clothing. Before I joined my church, I met with the pastor, and as he teases now, "You were the first person who interviewed me!" I didn't want to be in a spiritually dead church, so I had a long list of questions!

My pastor has asked me to wear jeans to church, since there are families who can't afford to dress up. I'm okay with it, but there are times I just feel... funny. This church is right on the border between a well-off community and a not-so-well-off one, and it's growing by leaps and bounds (600 teenagers to Wednesday Night Live each week!!), so I understand the need. Maybe I need to get over my pride with this.

My pet peeve is with the second to the last church my mama attended: they always send the plate around twice (I have tithed since I was 21), but when they sent it around a third time, I was stunned! Worse, when my daddy died, she called the church, and two days later, one of the pastors called her to say that he had a meeting at 10:30, so if she could be at the funeral home at 10am, he'd talk to her - then didn't show up! No cards, no flowers, no pastor - nothing! Both my brother's church & my church represented well (two pastors from each), but my mama's heart was broken even worse by the abandonment she felt. Don't tell me that she slipped between the cracks - if your church is so large that you can't handle a death in the church family - split up the congregation!!

I know a lot of people who hate this idea, but I love love love churches who use name tags!! You get over 100 people per Sunday, you really do need them! The regulars will know each other, but the coming in off the street person will feel lost...

but this causes too much superficiaity in a place where were all supposed to equals under god, right? i mean, be preentable, dont come in something obviously inappropriate. the pants thing, IMO is not too bad. isnt the point is that eh person came, and for the same reason (hopefully) you did? would u rather have an inappropriately dresed attendee there for all the right reasons or a "propriately dressed" person sinning around town? your call.

and what about the folks that show up for the dinners? that killed me.

i remember when there would be dinners, and the older kids would use it as their excuse to get out of sermon to help out in the kitchen.

and how bout churches that have cake/candy sales? NOT feelin that. how u gon sell $1 MMs and say "its for the lawd"? gimme a break. and why was the pastor's wife of my (old) church selling her "handmake baskets"? glad she had a gift for craft, but keep that on the side, dont make it part of the announcements.

oh and remember when text mesage was big? all the kids were sending txt messages to each other during the sermon! i remember that. before txt message was the dear diary organizers that you could send messages through...

and the tithe box infuriates me!