A Pious Man
Charlie Jones was a pious man who had been the head usher at Central Church for seventy-five years.
On his one hundred-fifth birthday he stopped going to church.
Alarmed by the old fellow's absence after so many years of faithful service, Pastor Anderson went to see him.
He found Charlie is excellent health, so the minister asked, "How come after all these years we don't see you any more?"
The old man looked around and lowered his voice, "I'll tell you Pastor," he whispered, "when I got to be ninety, I expected
God to take me home any day. But when I got to ninety-five, then one hundred, then 105. So I figured that God is very
busy and must've forgotten about me--and I don't want to remind Him."
[This joke was published in World's Greatest Collection of Church Jokes, Compiled and Edited by Paul M. Miller, and
published by Barbour Publishing, Inc. The book was given to me by Pastor David Sparks, Flat Rock Pentecostal Holiness Church
in Mt. Airy, NC.]
Charlie Jones was a pious man who had been the head usher at Central Church for seventy-five years.
On his one hundred-fifth birthday he stopped going to church.
Alarmed by the old fellow's absence after so many years of faithful service, Pastor Anderson went to see him.
He found Charlie is excellent health, so the minister asked, "How come after all these years we don't see you any more?"
The old man looked around and lowered his voice, "I'll tell you Pastor," he whispered, "when I got to be ninety, I expected
God to take me home any day. But when I got to ninety-five, then one hundred, then 105. So I figured that God is very
busy and must've forgotten about me--and I don't want to remind Him."
[This joke was published in World's Greatest Collection of Church Jokes, Compiled and Edited by Paul M. Miller, and
published by Barbour Publishing, Inc. The book was given to me by Pastor David Sparks, Flat Rock Pentecostal Holiness Church
in Mt. Airy, NC.]