I have heard of various pranks being played with this glass of water such as having the water switched out with vodka. I can imagine how that might get an interesting and entertaining reaction. I’m sure other things have ended up in the glass as well. Over the years I’m sure some churches have switched to bottled water. Or I can imagine churches where the cool pastor brings his own Starbucks Skinny Cinnamon Dolce Latte. Something would be lost of the weekly water-of-life metaphor as sits there on the pulpit, sipped or unsipped until the next week.
Every Sunday morning the custodians in our church make sure that the pulpit has a fresh glass of water for the pastor should he need a drink to clear his throat or just to cool off in the middle of a hotly delivered sermon. This glass of water is the most watched glass of water, especially when the pastor enjoys it at the beginning of the sermon. He or she has the attention of the whole congregation at that moment. I think it is the most envied drink taken during the week. Even as a small child I would wish that I too could have a swallow, especially if it was a warm day and it was 2.30 in the afternoon and I was feeling particularly thirsty. All the thirsty eyes were on the glass and the drinker. I wonder if there are pastors who have special requests for ice or lemon in a special glass.
I have heard of various pranks being played with this glass of water such as having the water switched out with vodka. I can imagine how that might get an interesting and entertaining reaction. I’m sure other things have ended up in the glass as well. Over the years I’m sure some churches have switched to bottled water. Or I can imagine churches where the cool pastor brings his own Starbucks Skinny Cinnamon Dolce Latte. Something would be lost of the weekly water-of-life metaphor as sits there on the pulpit, sipped or unsipped until the next week.
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Joel Ringma
4/19/2016 11:26:53 am
If it's the most watched and the most envied glass, it's also the most self-conscious drink a preacher takes. BTW, I have no special requests ... and I fill the glass myself. Also, I'm feeling a different envy. Not for a glass of water, but for a barn-raising. Wish I were there to share the experience: I'll just have to relive watching an undercover Amish Harrison Ford together in the barn-building scene in the movie "Witness".
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