Come up with a good one? Why sure.
About twenty years ago I was regularly attending a Lutheran (ELCA) church until that one Sunday when.....
(Here’s where Paul Harvey would say “The rest of the story.”)
The pastor took as his text for the Sunday sermon not a passage from scripture but rather a chapter from the book “Jonathon Livingston Seagull.”
I was waiting for him on he church steps after the service, but he never showed. And he stopped returning my phone calls.
And of course, I took my young family elsewhere.
bttt
A combination of bad communication and horrible timing recently put us in a position to endure a service conducted by an ELCA pastor who contributed a non sequitur of a micro-sermon. At the conclusion, he practically ran out the door in his fancy new shoes and zoomed off in his gleaming new sports car. He was, however, not in such a hurry that he missed getting his "gratuity."
It was really quite the spectacle, and caused a number of attendees - of various denominations - to wax cynical.
Mr. niteowl77 (ex-ELCA)