Saturday, September 10, 2011

How well do you know the Bible?

A pulpit committee invited a young minister to come to their church for an interview. The committee chairman asked, "Son, do you know the Bible very well?"

The young minister replied, "Fairly well, sir."

The chairman then asked, "Which part do you know the best?"

He said, "I know the New Testament the best."

Continuing, the chairman asked, "Which part of the New Testament do you know best?"

The young minister replied, "Several different parts."

The chairman said, "Why don't you tell us the story of the prodigal son."

The young man said, "Sure...there was a man named Nicodemus, who went down to Jericho by night and he fell upon stony ground and the thorns choked him half to death. The next morning Solomon and his wife, Gomorrah, came by, and carried him down to the Ark for Moses to take care of. As he was going through the Eastern Gate into the Ark, he caught his hair in a limb and he hung there forty days and forty nights and he afterwards did hunger. Then the ravens came and fed him. The very next day, three wise men came down to the boat dock and he caught a ship to Nineveh. When he got there he found Delilah sitting on a wall. He said, 'Chunk her down boys, chunk her down.'
And they said, 'How many times shall we chunk her down?'
And he said, 'Seventy times seven.'
So they chunked her down four hundred and ninety times. Then she burst asunder in their midst. They picked up twelve baskets of the leftovers and asked, 'At the resurrection whose wife shall she be?'"

The committee chairman suddenly interrupted the young minister and said to the remainder of the committee, "Fellows, I think we ought to ask the church to call him as our minister. He is awfully young, but he sure does know his Bible."

Is this how well you know your Bible?

1 comment:

Owen Mannin said...

Sure, I recognize all those Biblical stories. They all touch, point to our—mankind—being a prodigal from the Father of Truth. Unfortunately, not all come home for the ring of the Father, to be heirs with King Jesus Christ. Then again, I doubt you were taking a metaphorical route with your message. Thanks Randy, always remind us to stay rooted in God’s Word, prayerfully gaining knowledge and truth.