Preaching To Bears

Not much time this morning so I thought I'd leave you with this funny to start your day with..

Priest, a Pentecostal Preacher and a Rabbi, all serving as chaplains at a university, would get together two or three times a week at a coffee to chat. One day, someone made the comment that preaching to people isn't really all that hard, that a real challenge would be to preach to a bear. One thing led to another and they decided to try an experiment. All would go out into the woods, find a bear, preach to it, and attempt to convert it.

One week later, they came together to discuss the "experience."

Father Flannery, his arm in a sling, and on crutches, with various parts bandaged,
went first. "Well," he said, "I went into the woods and found a bear. I began to read to him from the Catechism. Well, that bear wanted nothing to do with me and began to slap me around. So I quickly grabbed my holy water, sprinkled him and said, "Holy Mary Mother of God." At that, he became gentle a lamb. The bishop is coming out next week to give him first communion and confirmation."

Reverend Billy Bob spoke next. He was in a wheelchair, with an arm and both legs in
casts, with an IV drip. In his best fire and brimstone oratory he claimed, " WELL
brothers, you KNOW that we don't sprinkle! I went out and I FOUND me a bear. And
then I began to read to my bear from God's HOLY WORD! But that bear wanted
nothing to do with me. So I took HOLD of him and we began to wrestle. We wrestled
down one hill, UP another and DOWN one more until we came to a creek. So I quickly
DUNKED him and BAPTIZED his hairy soul. And just like you said, he became gentle
as a lamb. We spent the rest of the day praising Jesus."

They both looked down at Rabbi Lipschitz, who was lying in a hospital bed. He was
in a body cast and traction, with IV's and monitors running in and out of him. He was in bad shape. He looked up and struggled to speak to the others. "Looking back on it, circumcision may not have been the best way to start things out."