Pastoral Candidate Number 4.5

Update from the Search Committee

(an excerpt from a recent interview)

Committee Chair: What is your favorite hymn and why?

Candidate 45: “Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus,” because this hymn, more than

                         any other, describes my call to the pulpit.

Committee Chair: Because of a call to evangelism and commitment to

persevere for the gospel at any cost in your preaching?

Candidate 45: Maybe . . . I suppose . . . but I don’t really preach. It’s more “stand-up . . .

for Jesus.” Like Billy Joel says in "Only the Good Die Young,"  I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. I want to bring in the lost sheep laughing all the way to heaven. There’s no crying in evangelism - or was that in baseball?

Committee Chair: OK. I think we’re ready for Candidate 46.

Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! (1 Corinthians 9:16)