While I was preparing for my recent post on secondary separation, I stumbled across this joke. I thought it would lighten the discussion and add humor to my latest discussion of secondary separation. However, it also illustrates the extremes to which secondary separation can digress.
There was a man who was about to jump from a bridge to end his own life. A passerby stopped to try to prevent it. The passerby tried to start a conversation and told the jumper, “I am a Baptist”. The jumper said, “me too”. “Oh really, that’s great”, said the passerby, “are you a pre-millenialist Baptist?” The jumper replied, “yes I am”. The passerby said, “great, me too”. The passerby asked, “are you a King James version only Baptist or will you use other versions?” “King James only” said the jumper. “Me too” said the passerby. “Are you a 5-point Calvinist?”, asked the passerby. “No” replied the jumper. “Me either” said the passerby. “Would you recognize baptism from a Baptist Church where the pastor did not attend a Baptist seminary?” The jumper replied “Yes”. The passerby then shouts, “Die! Heretic! And pushes the jumper off the bridge.
[The above joke was given in a comment by Ron Bean (who states it is not original to him) in the discussion of an article entitled “Unity is Fundamental” on Sharper Iron.]
∼striving for the unity of the faith for the glory of God∼ Eph. 4:3,13 “¢ Rom. 15:5-7
I guess you had to be there….
Many of us have (been there, that is) and it is no “joke”.