FW: A New Church

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A New Church

A new Pastor in a small Oklahoma town spent the first four days making
personal visits to each of the members, inviting them to come to his first
services.

The following Sunday the church was all but empty. Accordingly, the
Pastor placed a notice in the local newspapers, stating that, because the
church was dead, it was everyone's duty to give it a decent Christian burial
The funeral would be held the following Sunday afternoon, the notice said.

Morbidly curious, a large crowd turned out for the "funeral." In front
of the pulpit, they saw a closed coffin, smothered in flowers. After the
Pastor delivered the eulogy, he opened the coffin and invited his
congregation to come forward and pay their final respects to their dead
church.

Filled with curiosity as to what would represent the corpse of a "dead
church," all the people eagerly lined up to look in the coffin. Each
mourner" peeped into the coffin then quickly turned away with a guilty,
sheepish look.

In the coffin, tilted at just the right angle, was a large mirror