Several years ago, our church had a temporary pastor who'd grown up on a cattle ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills. The guy was a genius for taking anecdotes about a wild and wooly childhood on a cattle ranch and working them into something meaningful in a sermon.
I always thought if he hadn't become a Lutheran preacher he could have made it big as a standup comic.
He told once (from the pulpit) about a time when he was 12 when he and one of his buddies wanted to try steer roping. They picked a steer, got on saddle horses, and spent about two hours on a hot afternoon chasing this steer around the corral roping and unroping him. The steer finally decided he'd had it. The steer busted through the fence and took off. The pastor said his 16 year old sister was putting some washing out on the clothes line when the steer ran through, hooked a horn on the clothes line, and took off across country with the clothes line and clothes dragging behind. He said his sister made a number of comments he couldn't repeat from the pulpit.
One of the neighbors finally corraled the steer a couple of miles away, still dragging the clothes. The pastor didn't say what the personal consequences were but I imagine he and his buddy paid a price.
I've always wished we could have kept that guy permanently. He was a hoot. Plus, once he made his point in a sermon, he was done, even if it was only ten minutes. He didn't drag on just to hear himself talk, like some preachers.
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