You Know You Might Be Lutheran if... - Page 4
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...change means wearing your brown suit instead of your blue suit to church.
...you read your Catechism and start arguing theology with yourself because no one else is around.
...the most mail you receive all year is from the Stewardship Committee.
...you take your grandfather to McDonalds for breakfast and he asks for a large order of McLefsa.
...you win $10 million in the lottery and decide to throw a party and money is no object, so you advertise in the church bulletin, rent the parish hall, and ask all of your friends to bring a side dish or salad.
...every time something changes, the old one was better.
...you hold your family reunion in the church basement.
...a capital fund drive is needed to finance the new one million cup coffee urn.
...you serve Jell-O as a vegetable.
...your biggest fund-raisers are bake sales instead of bingo.
...you can't have a meeting without having a meal.
...you refer to your trip to Minneapolis as a pilgrimage.
...sharing the peace during the service takes more time than the sermon.
...all of your casserole dishes have your name on the bottom.
...you're willing to pay up to one dollar for a meal at church.
...the third service each Sunday is coffee hour.
...all your relatives graduated from a school named Concordia.
...potluck dinners are your favorite indoor sport.
...you ask for "A Mighty Fortress" on the love song request line.
...you automatically sing 'amen' at the end of every song you sing.
...you count coffee among the sacraments.
...you actually understand the folks from Lake Wobegon.
...your coffee cup is permanently stained.
...you consume some form of Jell-O at every holiday meal.
...you don't question why the seat you sit in at church is called a pew.
...you have a relative named Einar.
...you wish MTV, VH1 and CMT had hymns.
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