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  Comment by Manfred — April 23, 2009 @ 7:26 am

  My, my – refrigerators and telephones. How little trust in the Lord do these brethren have! Rather than salt their meat, the Baptists refrigerate it! Rather than pray to God for their Baptist brethren, the Presbyterians call them! What of the Regulative Principle? What of “make your cares and concerns known to the Lord, and none other.”? Oh, the horrors of technology! People can actually keep meat and reach out and talk to one another! Where will it end???????????

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  Comment by Angus — April 23, 2009 @ 9:11 am

  Failed prank call to a general store owned by a Baptist:

  -”Hello, do you have Prince Albert in a can?”
  -”I should say not! Tobacco is of the devil.”
  -”Oh…” *click*

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  Comment by Manfred — April 23, 2009 @ 3:35 pm

  Or as Spurgeon might have said:

  “Last time I was with ye, ye prayed to the Lord with your own voice. Now ye have a machine to do it for ye!”

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  Comment by John — April 23, 2009 @ 10:59 pm

  Everyone in the room held their breath as they waited to see if the hot-line psychic could indeed guess what Brother Alfred had in his coat pocket.

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  Comment by Reformed Pentecostal — April 23, 2009 @ 11:11 pm

  Jesus on the Mainline, tell Him what you want

  Jesus on the Mainline, tell Him what you want,

  Call Him up and tell Him what you want…

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  Comment by Adam Minneapolis — April 24, 2009 @ 12:10 am

  Reformed Pentecostal,

  Did you really have to conjure up that awful song in my head? We used to sing those dreadful lines at the church I grew up in. They epitomize the mentality of the Word of Faith movement, making Jesus the celestial Santa Claus. At this moment I’m frantically searching my computer for a song that will drown out the “Jesus on the Mainline” tune attempting to invade my head.

  All that to say, it’s a very fitting caption to the picture above.

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  Comment by LuLu — April 24, 2009 @ 4:03 pm

  Notice the deep concern reflected in the eyes of several of the Brothers lest a “Freewill” Baptist Pastor answer the call!

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  Comment by Carol — April 24, 2009 @ 4:27 pm

  As you can tell by the latest in high tech gadgetry, this “pastor’s retreat” was held in the 1895 Dry Gulch Inn. Due to recent budget issues, the mainline denomination had to send their ministers to a “low tech” retreat.

  They were NOT allowed to bring any cell phones, or other pieces of modern electronic communication devices with them. The 1898 “Bell Elite” model was quite the mouthpiece in its time!

  The reason for concern on the faces of some of the pastors was if the phone would still actually be working!

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