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* irenic *
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 Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:20 am Post subject: I am the very model of a modern parish minister |
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I am the very model of a modern parish minister;
My versatile efficiency seems positively sinister,
With youth I'm awfully jolly, and with older folk refined.
I'm a staunch denominationalist, yet ecumenically inclined.
I'm very much au fait in matters modern theological -
The 'myths' of Genesis 1 correlate with dogmas geological.
I am chummy with the Rotary, and with women's groups the same.
I present the social gospel in a way that brings no shame.
I polish resolutions up for all assemblies solemn,
And for the local paper write a brightly pious column.
I can publicize a triumph and soft-pedal a disaster.
I am the very model of the dynamic modern pastor.
I am up-to-date in Culture; about Art I wax rhapsodical.
In church administration I'm fantastically methodical.
I am very good at counselling and I preach a snappy sermon;
And stewardship potentials I can skillfully determine.
I was learned in liturgies and I'm ceremonially adept,
Yet the bounds of taste and safety I have never overstepped.
My versatile efficiency is positively sinister -
I am the very model of the modern parish minister.
(Origin unknown. A note in an old Expository Times says it comes ofrom a
'religious weekly' over the initials 'M. S. P.')
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I am the very model of a modern Evangelical -
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/17157.htm
And a few others! (Including 'trendy faux bisexuals', 'scientologists',
'Unitarians' and many more...)
http://www.luxumbradei.com/parody/piratesidx.html
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Shalom! Rowland Croucher
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(17,000+ articles, 4000 clean jokes/stories)
http://victoriaconcordiacrescit.blogspot.com/
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CaptainCatechism
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| Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:47 am Post subject: Re: I am the very model of a modern parish minister |
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"I was learned in liturgies and I'm ceremonially adept,
Yet the bounds of taste and safety I have never overstepped. "
Is this a problem Rowland?
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* irenic *
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:48 pm Post subject: Re: I am the very model of a modern parish minister |
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"CaptainCatechism" <captaincatechism@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | "I was learned in liturgies and I'm ceremonially adept,
Yet the bounds of taste and safety I have never overstepped. "
Is this a problem Rowland?
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Nope
(Yet I remember an Anglican priest who led a eucharistic service at a clergy
conference doing everything which such wristy flourishes, that it was
distracting... 'Ceremonially adept' had a special meaning for him, I guess).
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Shalom! Rowland Croucher
"If only it were so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere
insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary to separate them
from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil
cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy
a piece of his own heart?" Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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CaptainCatechism
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:00 am Post subject: Re: I am the very model of a modern parish minister |
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* irenic * wrote:
| Quote: | "CaptainCatechism" <captaincatechism@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1144640846.022101.55490@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
"I was learned in liturgies and I'm ceremonially adept,
Yet the bounds of taste and safety I have never overstepped. "
Is this a problem Rowland?
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Nope
(Yet I remember an Anglican priest who led a eucharistic service at a clergy
conference doing everything which such wristy flourishes, that it was
distracting... 'Ceremonially adept' had a special meaning for him, I guess).
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Shalom! Rowland Croucher
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Sounds like it wasn't "about him" instead it was "what God does for
us."
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