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Author unknown<\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n (Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones wrote that one of the problems with modern church folk is that they either see things “fuzzy or double”. He went on to say that often it is easier for if they saw clearly, they would have to do something about it.)<\/strong> <\/p>\n This story reminds me of the one I tell about the minister hearing of the biblical illiteracy in the school system, so he goes and asks the question of student, teacher, principal and school board. Oh well, it will take a while and you had just better ask me to tell it… (JCS)<\/strong> <\/p>\n ————–<\/strong> <\/p>\n A church board was examining a candidate for a CHURCH MEMBERSHIP<\/u>. One of the board asked the candidate:<\/strong> Once upon a time a man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves; and the thorns grew up and choked the man. And he went on and met the Queen of Sheba, and she gave that man, a thousand talents of gold and silver and a hundred changes of raiment. And he got in his chariot and drove furiously. And when he was driving along under a fig tree, his hair got caught in a limb and left him hanging there. And he hung there many days and many nights, and the ravens brought him food to eat and water to drink.<\/strong> <\/p>\n And one night while he was hanging there asleep, his wife, Delilah came along and cut off his hair and he dropped and fell on the stony ground; and it began to rain, and it rained forty days and forty nights. He then hid himself in a cave. He went out after a time and met a man that said, ‘Come and take supper with me’. But he said ‘I cannot come, for I have married a wife’. The men went out into the highways and the byways and compelled others to follow him. He went on and came to Jerusalem and saw Queen Jezebel sitting high up in a window, and when she saw him she laughed, and he cried, ‘Throw her down, and she perished, so now he wondered whose wife she would be in the judgment.<\/strong> <\/p>\n There was no one on the board who felt qualified to question the candidate further, for each one had a deep suspicion that his own organized Bible knowledge was sketchy – just like that of the candidate. SO the applicant was voted into membership.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Author unknown (Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones wrote that one of the problems with modern church folk is that they either see things “fuzzy or double”. He went on to say that often it is easier for if they saw clearly, they would have to do something about it.) This story reminds me of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
What part of the Bible do you like best?<\/strong>
I like the New Testament best.<\/strong>
What book in the New Testament?<\/strong>
The Book of Parables, sir.<\/strong>
Would you kindly relate one of those parables to us?<\/strong>
So the uncertain candidate bluffed his way as follows:<\/strong><\/b> <\/p>\n