Win A Copy of CHURCHED
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I have a copy of Churched by Matthew Paul Turner that I would like to give away to a lucky reader. This is a great book that I thoroughly enjoyed reading (read my review) so I’m excited to share it with you.
“Churched” Contest Details:
We’re going to have a little fun with the giveaway. To enter, just leave a comment that starts with “I was/am so churched…” and finish the sentence with true or mostly true details about yourself.
Example: “I’m so churched that I can sing 135 Sunday School songs word-for-word” or “I was so churched that I was wearing clip-on ties to church before I was out of diapers.” Be creative. I’ll pick the best “churched” comment as the winner and announce it here tomorrow.
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this contest is no fun if you’re like me and didn’t start following Jesus until your 20’s!!! I only went to church like twice, and the last time I only remember an end times video… I wanted nothing to do with you freaks. But now I’m a pastor.
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I am so churched I still quote scripture from the KJV out of ingrained habit!
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I am so churched that I begin “stump” contests where people try to sing old vacation bible school songs and stump me with them. Give me gas in my ford, keep me truckin’ for the Lord…
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I am so churched that I get the tremors if presentations of the Gospel don’t take place on a flannel graph.
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I’m so churched when I was a teen that old ladies thought I was a sweet boy so they baked cookies and brought them in the classroom where I taught first grade Sunday school. This is also the same classroom where I made out with my girlfriend during lock-ins.
Thankfully, I’m a recovering hypocrite.
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@RyanGuard – Dude, you’re the lucky one for not growing up in the church! And if your impression of church was an end times video, how the heck did you ever become a Christian???
Everyone else – these are awesome! Keep em coming!
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I was so churched I still have my little plaid, powder-blue, clip-on bowtie sitting in my sock drawer from when I was 5
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I was so churched that I can sing any hymn and pick out any of the harmonies because being in a Mennonite church all we did for worship is use a pitch pipe and then we sang verses 1,2 and 4 (3 and 5 were outcasts)
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I was so churched I list everything in 3 points and a poem outline:
Today I am thankful for:
1. God
2. GJesus
3. GHoly Spirit
Today for lunch I ate:
1. Soup
2. Some Bread
3. Styrofoam cup full of Diet Coke
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@brad I came to church because I was offered a free lunch. a year of free lunches later I was convinced.
and there were pretty girls. met me one of them and married her
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@ Nick.. dude ur second comment was great.
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I was/am so churched that I can’t help but compete for more books about church related subjects.
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I am so churched that I don’t even go to church anymore!
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I am so churched that I know tons of old-school sunday school songs, didn’t listen to secular music until I was 17, didn’t smoke until I was 18, and gave that up after one week because I felt guilty. I still take notes during sermons and still play ‘Bible Challenge: the Board Game’, which is not all bad. The difference now? I actually have a relationship with God.
Sorry if that was too much…?
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i am so churched… i can recite the 1st, 3rd and 4th lines of the hail mary to the tune of ‘jehovah jirah’ all while alternating between the holy hop & the kick skip dance.
(don’t even get me started on my hair)
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@Carolyn – If you were to make a video of that I think there are some who would pay good money to watch it!
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I am/was so churched I asked for flannelgraphed walls instead of wallpaper in my room as a kid so that I could do my own illustrated Bible stories.
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I am so churched I just went and bought this awesome new Christian song called, “Our God is an Awesome God” – If you have not heard this song yet, go get it!!!
http://www.amazon.com/Awesome-God/dp/B00136S4IA/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1224179494&sr=8-2
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My apologies…
It has too much of a beat.
I will go and stand before my church and repent of my my sins now, that’s how churched I am…
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and now for the icing on the cake (the following is 100% true)…
I am/was so churched that my Christian Elementary school had Harvest Parties at Halloween, and you could only dress up as a Farmer or other Christian approved costume. I came as JIMMY SWAGGART for two straight years, and all of a sudden, right before the third year, my parents didn’t let me be Brother Jimmy anymore…and I couldn’t understand why…
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ok, brian… i really can’t resist. since you brought it up.
this is a true story.
i am so churched i attended jimmy swaggart bible college the year after the big no, no. when asked why i still went i said, “because god told me to go not jimmy swaggart.”
and while i learned much while i was there i am most proud of the mrs. degree i earned (e-hem, flirted for).
i have the best husband in the whole entire universe.
ok, not funny granted. but true none the less.
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@brad – hmmmmmmm.
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@Carolyn – That first one is great! Very funny…So when are you going to do it and post a video for us? =) j/k; I really did think it was creative, though.
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Wow. These are hilarious. Thanks Brad…
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I’m so churched that Annie Armstrong and Lottie Moon took up offerings in MY name.
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I was so churched, I at my weight of goldfish crackers in Sunday School for 62 consecutive Sundays.
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I was so churched I just found out last year that my family, in fact, were not imbreds and my dad was not my father & my ‘brother’ and my mom was not my mother & my ’sister’
Man what a confusing life this has been!
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I’m so churched I have signed 35 True Love Waits cards.
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I’m so churched, when I sing children’s songs with my son, I sing one more verse “just in case.”
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I am so churched I know that the Tetragrammaton isn’t a character from Transformers.
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I was so churched that I wouldn’t use vanilla extract because it has alcohol in it.
(Not completely true for me…but completely true for my great-grandma).
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@GregQualls – I’m not gonna lie, I had to Google “Tetragrammaton” to see what it meant!
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I was so churched that to this day I can only play “name that tune” with hymns and an organ.
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I was so churched that I knew the distinctive flavors of 100 different casseroles before most kids my age were off of their bottles.
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I was so churched I actually asked my parents for THIS CARPET when they first offered to redo my room when I was 7 …
http://www.faithbasedcarpets.com/product.asp?specific=303
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I was so churched that when my parents would ask me what I want for dinner .. I always replied, “The Lord’s Supper”
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I was so churched that my first words were “Building Community” …
Man, these are too easy .. I’ve gotta stop …
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@Danny – I wish I could give that carpet away as a prize.
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I am so churched my Bible has footprints all over it…”The B-I-B-L-E, yes that’s the book for me, I stand alone on the Word of God, the B-I-B-L-E!!!!
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I was so churched that I thought I was a Christian from the time I could spell thanks to, “I am a C, I am a C – H, I am a C -H -R – I – S- T -I -A – N, I have C – H – R – I – S – T in my H – E – A – R – T…”
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I am so churched that every pew, hymnal, and Bible was dedicated by me.
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I’m so churched that I played the part of “God” in a referee shirt in a dramatic reenactment to the song, “The Champion” by Carmen.
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Josh .. you’re a funny guy .. either that, or we totally went to the same church.
(which would be hard cause all of the pews, hymnal, and bible was dedicated TO ME!)
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I’m so churched that I had a “POWER Team” poster on my wall and practiced ripping phone books.
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Jason… I think I remember that.
I’m so churched that my idea of creative is black lights, white gloves, sticks, and Arise My Love.
Danny….who do you think dedicated those to you?
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I was so churched that I would buy the National Enquirer just to throw it away.
(Ok, not really but I did go to school and church with a guy that did!)
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I’m so churched that I remember when Amy Grant was labeled the devil’s music.
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@josh – i feel you man. The Champion was performed with blacklights and white gloves.
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I’m so churched that I “marched for Jesus” and later passed out due to dehydration.
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I’m so churched that I begin every prayer with “Every head bowed and every eye closed…”
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I’m so churched (from my Fundamentalist background) that if I’m at the grocery store in pants I mentally prepare myself to drop three references to how my walk with God is just Wonderful as Homemade Pie in case I meet someone who might be shocked/horrified/distraught.
You know, just so they know I’m still talking to Him.
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I was so churched as a kid that I could sleep through the entire service and then – like an internal alarm clock – predict when the pastor was bringing things to a close and getting to the part of his sermon where he says, “Let’s pray…”
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I was so churched that I got baptized every year in summer camp.
…also, anytime anyone mentions the anti-christ or the end times I picture people being beheaded because of the end times movies my mom made me watch when I was 5.
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I’m so churched that when picking out a shirt to buy I still wonder if it will pass the “can’t be lower than four fingers width from your collarbone” test.
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I am so churched that St. Peter may just wave me in the pearly gates without signing in:
1. My father grew up Catholic
2. My Mom grew up Presbyterian
3. Raised and confirmed as a Lutheran
4. Went to college became a heathen.
5. Back to Lutheran church as a young adult.
6. Married a beautiful young lady from the Assembly of God.
7. Raised our family in the Methodist Church.
8. Attending a non-denominational church.
I so churched there is probably already a reference there is mention of my name in the appendix in the section on what not to do.
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I’m was so churched I bought, layed at the altar, and re-bought Collective Sou’s “Gel” album three times!
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Great comments. My wife and I are laughing our heads off.
Personally, and this is true, I was so churched that when I was called to the ministry at age eight I would preach sermons based on the verses in the the Broadman Hymnal.
In addition, I was so churched that to this day I only know the 1st, 2nd, and last stanza of more than 100 hymns.
God bless you.
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I’m so churched I can’t get together with friends unless there’s coffee and donuts.
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I was so churched I couldn’t swim with girls until I got married, ok, i got to swim with them once I left that church, but for several years I could not swim with girls. No mixed bathing.
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I was so churched I didn’t know my wife had knees until I got married.
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I was so churched that I replaced all of my CDs at least 4 times after our annual “burn the devil music” services.
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I am so churched that I still love orange kool-aid and those flower shaped cookies with the hole in the middle.
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I was so churched every time I dive into a swimming pool I have to first say, “I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost…”
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@ Mandy – you are not churched enough unless you dip the cookies in the kool-aid!
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I’m so churched my business cards are Chick Tracts
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I am so churched I feel the need to begin EVERY SINGLE MEETING with a prayer.
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I was so churched and church/schooled that, mathematically speaking, by the time I finished college (Pensacola Christian College, mind you) I had attended 5,824 hours of church/chapels services.
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I am so churched that:
I like big BIBLE and I can not lie.
or,
I secretly sing the Doxology in my head every we take the tithes and offerings at church.
or
it’s hard for me to quit trying to be good enough and truly understand the grace and love of God.
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Nick took mine, but it’s totally true, so I’m using it anyway. And I’m old enough that I have a slightly different twist anyway.
I was so churched that I broke all my rock albums (that’s VINYL, people!) and gave them all to my youth pastor as an offering.
I still re-buy one of those albums occasionally. It kills me some of the things that were “devil music”! Billy Joel, Styx… man. Now I go to a church where we cover that music. I call it the “un-church.” It’s good to go to a place where your music director was nominated for a Grammy. Nuff said.
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I’m so churched that I know the only approved candy to eat during church is peppermints.
I’m so churched that when I was a kid whenever I couldn’t find my grandmother I thought the Rapture had taken place and I was left behind.
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I’m so churched that after 24 years of growing up in church, being a minister’s kid, going to a Bible college, and working for two mega-churches, I sometimes think it’s odd that we don’t start business meetings or classes at my secular university with prayer.
On the other side of things, I was so churched-put that I had a look of terror in my eyes when someone asked if I was going to get married in my home church building (megachurch that cost $24 million, when I actually go to a house church)
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I was so churched that I thought Carman was one of the Apostles.
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I am so churched that I (a Catholic) married a Southern Baptist, in a Lutheran Church with a service performed by a non-denominational minister. Day of the wedding, church was robbed and oh,Santa Clause was at my wedding to hand out the gifts.
True story…sometime details on a really long blog post.
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I was so churched that when the sunday school teacher got the flannel graph out, I was uber-excited!
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Hah! Y’all are hilarious!
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I’m so churched I was born there…well, almost, my mom’s water while at the piano playing “I’ll Fly Away”. She was back at that same piano playing “Love Lifted Me” less than 24 hours later…
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umm, meant to say her water broke…
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I’m so churched that I only wear flannel shirts and carry around bible characters to stick to my shirt to share the gospel in public. I am a walking storyboard!
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I’m so churched that Psalty is still one of my heroes!
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I’m so churched that to this day I still sniff the little communion cup to make sure that it’s just grape juice before I drink it.
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I’m so churched that Christianese is my official second language!
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I’m so churched i can recite every Veggie Tales son word for word
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i meant song
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I am so churched that I got dunked, sprinkled, and poured to make sure I was “really baptized”!
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I was so churched I always thought ugly clip art was reserved solely for church bulletins.
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I’m so churched, I formed a committee to name my first child.
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I’m so churched that I instantly related to MPT’s book cover…
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I’m so churched that at a youth beach retreat I pretented to be slain in the spirit and spoke in tongues just to fit into the “cool” crowd…
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@ Will Work for Sleep.. that was Classic.. because I have been there.. done that.. LOL
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I am so churched I used to make crazy bermuda shorts for camp because they had to be to the knee and not an inch shorter. They were all bright and floral colors.
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I’m so churched Bill Gaither is STILL my homeboy. If you don’t believe me just check out my photos in facebook…
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I was so churched I had the joy of hearing two sermons almost exactly alike using the word “mulligan”.
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I guess I never felt so churched…I did attend an evangelical seminary and end up rejecting evangelicalism…but not because I felt over churched. Interesting and funny responses here though.
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I am so churched that I drank the water in Mexico on a missions trip and had diarrhea for the whole week.
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I’m so churched I’m willing to write a comment about it so I can get a free book.
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i am a little late getting in on this… and i hope no one has said this…
but i am so churched that i have never heard the 3rd “stanza” to any hymn in the baptist hymnal.
also – i am so churched that 75% of the t-shirts i own are youth group, camp, vbs, or mission trip t-shirts.
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