Let’s face it … some people can flat out just make you laugh. I have read Greg’s stuff for a long time … never met him, but I do like to read his stuff. This post was just too funny not to pass along. I think we all could apply for that job: Minister of Awkward Moments. The High Fiving moment is classic.

from this article.

f there was a position in ministry called Director of Awkward Moments I would be promoted to it. Why? Because I have a tendency, in the words of my old pastor, to keep talking until I start making sense and to make appropriately funny jokes at flat-out inappropriate times. Sometimes my attempts at humor are misinterpreted as serious statements. Sometimes my serious statements are misinterpreted as attempts at humor. It’s always awkward when people don’t know whether to laugh, cry, punch you in the face or run away in terror.

One time, on a TBN-type live television broadcast, I high fived the host’s uplifted praise hand. I could see his hand go skyward out of the corner of my eye as I was telling a moving story of a changed life. My peripheral vision combined with my hands-are-for-clapping Baptist mindset, told me that this TV preacher was wanting to give me a high five in response to my story. But he was just raising his hands in praise to God. I quickly turned to him, and before I noticed his other upstretched hand of praise, I smacked the one closest to me so hard it stunned and bewildered him. The camera guys were laughing so hard that their lenses were shaking. AWKWARD!

I’ve had awkward moments as a pastor. While concluding a service I once misquoted Psalm 150 as “let everything that has breasts praise the Lord!” AWKWARD! I’ve had them as a counselor. Responding to a guy who told me that he was so spiritual that God told him he could divorce his wife I said, “God just told me something too. He said ‘You are full of crap!’ Now get out of my office before I throw you out!” AWKWARD! I’ve had them as a traveling evangelist. Once while visiting Europe a group of Scottish evangelists asked me what I thought of their sickening-sweet orange drink called Iron Brew and I responded, “If soda were gay this would be it.” Little did I know it was their national drink that they were immensely proud of. AWKWARD!

there is more. Here.

Source: Gregstier.org
http://www.gregstier.org/rants/awkward-is-awesome/

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