On Fire for the Lord????

Or Perhaps it should be titled: A Preacher's Worst Nightmare.

Tonight in church, we had a most moving service on 1 Corinthians 11 about having the Lord's Supper the right way. Music was fantastic as always and very relevant: not many dry eyes, even the Dad was awake. We had tables up front with beautiful fall leaves and flowers, etc. with communion elements sitting out for us to go forward to partake, which we reverently did (unlike we always do-not the reverence but the going forward).. Do you see where I'm going????

Then, if that weren't moving enough, we shared the anniversary of the tragic tornado in Evansville complete with movies and were beginning the sharing of some thoughts by one of the victims.

We heard a quiet "POP" and one of the candle holders broke and, yes, fire broke out! Several of the men jumped up and ran out (hopefully to get the fire extinguisher) and Todd, the preacher in charge went over and tried to put it out by tossing what was left of the grape juice on it-bet he has burned hands. Finally Eric, another of the pastors, came over with a wet towel from the baptistry and did extinguish it promptly. Another great reason for baptism by immersion: the baptistry is always available should it be needed for fire extinguishing. We clapped.

I suppose you could call it "comic relief" but it did break the tension if you could call it that. The Dad and I agreed that if you must have candles and pretty decorations, you really should have a fire extinguisher present. I have always worried that something like that could happen. Bet my sons would have had a plan... Daughter, too probably, but the guys were always big on their "plans".