{"id":32471,"date":"2022-09-10T16:10:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/4-church-easter-service-fails-you-have-to-see\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T16:10:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:10:51","slug":"4-church-easter-service-fails-you-have-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/4-church-easter-service-fails-you-have-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Church Easter Service Fails You Have to See"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><\/div>\n<p><em>By Aaron Earls<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For Christians, Holy Week is usually a somber time capped with a joyous Easter celebration, but sometimes you have to laugh at what happens at churches.<\/p>\n<p>Congregations often use the season to do special services with an eye toward potential guests in the building. Those special services don&#8217;t always go as planned.<\/p>\n<p>Here are four church Easter service fails to make you laugh today.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>1. Off the Cross a Little Early<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Christians can rejoice that Jesus did not stay on the cross, but this Jesus got down a little too soon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">  <\/div>\n<h3><strong>2. Unforgettable&nbsp;Illustration<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If the point of a sermon illustration is to help you remember the message, I&#8217;d say this one worked\u2014but probably not the way the pastor intended it.<\/p>\n<div class='code-block code-block-1' style='margin: 8px 0;clear: both'> <\/div>\n<h3><strong>3. Resurrection on Fire<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Just wait for it. You&#8217;ll see why they picked the absolute best person to play Jesus. A flaming tomb? No worries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">  <\/div>\n<h3><strong>4. Twisted Ascension<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s best in this attempt to portray Jesus&#8217; ascension: the Hallelujah chorus or the sudden realization on Jesus&#8217; part that this is going wrong and there&#8217;s nothing he can do about it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">  <\/div>\n<p>Have you had any funny fails at your church&#8217;s Easter presentations or egg hunts?<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#32373c\" class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-profile-box square gb-has-avatar gb-font-size-18 gb-block-profile gb-profile-columns\">\n<div class=\"gb-profile-column gb-profile-avatar-wrap\">\n<div class=\"gb-profile-image-wrap\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gb-profile-column gb-profile-content-wrap\">\n<h2 class=\"gb-profile-name\" style=\"color:#32373c\">Aaron Earls<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gb-profile-title\" style=\"color:#32373c\">@WardrobeDoor<\/p>\n<div class=\"gb-profile-text\">\n<p>Aaron is a writer for LifewayResearch.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"gb-social-links\"><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-box su-box-style-default\" id=\"\" style=\"border-color:#000000;border-radius:0px\">\n<div class=\"su-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#333333;color:#FFFFFF;border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px\">Dig Deeper at Lifeway.com<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-box-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px\">\n<div class=\"one-third first\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"two-thirds\">\n<h3>Laughing On Purpose DVD<\/h3>\n<p>Comedian Michael Jr.<\/p>\n<p>  FIND OUT MORE <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-thumbnails'>\n<h3>Related posts:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"yarpp-thumbnails-horizontal\">  Pastors, Churchgoers Tired but Hopeful for Easter 2021  4 Principles for Recalibrating Your Ministry Vision <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Aaron Earls For Christians, Holy Week is usually a somber time capped with a joyous Easter celebration, but sometimes you have to laugh at what happens at churches. Congregations often use the season to do special services with an eye toward potential guests in the building. Those special services don&#8217;t always go as planned. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/4-church-easter-service-fails-you-have-to-see\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;4 Church Easter Service Fails You Have to See&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}