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A minister wound up the services one morning by saying, ''Next Sunday I am going to preach on the subject of liars. And in this connection, as a preparation for my discourse, I would like you all to read the seventeenth chapter of Mark''. On the following Sunday, the preacher rose to begin and said, ''Now, then, all of you who have done as I requested and read the seventeenth chapter of Mark, please raise your hands.'' Nearly every hand in the congregation went up. Then said the preacher, ''You are the people I want to talk to. There is no seventeenth chapter of Mark.''
 

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There are some jokes you just can't tell a good pastor, mine cut me off before the punchline, "There ISN'T a seventeenth chapter!" Great joke though, for people who don't have the New Testament memorized!
 
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The_White said:
Said it before, I'll say it again.
I would like to see someone do this as an experiment, be interesting to see what happens
I am a pastor, and I have done something similar, though not from the pulpit. When tiring of youth asking the ever ready question of why, I often resort to saying, "this is the way we must do it according to Hezekiah 5:13." The next week, I ask them if they are satisfied now that they've had time to look it up. Invariably, the answer is yes.
 
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