Have you ever walked out of a service before?

[Lost]

Originally Posted by Steadfast

One night here a short while back he (MM) went well into 2 CD's... and our people loved it!

No, the 'long drawn out part' is, for instance, the 'appreciation service' they used to have where they honored an elder or couple for... say... an hour and a half!

• "Anybody in the first Church he Pastored come up to the platform!"
• "Anybody that knew the offspring of the first hound dog they tied up behind the house just come on to the platform!"[/SIZE]
• "Anybody that remembers someone from your past that had met someone... who had met someone... who had actually met someone from his first Church... come on to the platform!"

The most God awful long services I've ever seen in my life! Thankfully they have gotten away from that for the most part.

My question is partially inspired by this post. I recently spoke with a friend of mine who walked out of a service after a guest speaker broke the one hour mark in his message, when according to my friend "could have said it in 20 minutes."

Have you ever walked out of a service? If so, for what reason and would you do it again if given the same chance?

[COOPER]

Originally Posted by Lost

My question is partially inspired by this post. I recently spoke with a friend of mine who walked out of a service after a guest speaker broke the one hour mark in his message, when according to my friend "could have said it in 20 minutes."

Have you ever walked out of a service? If so, for what reason and would you do it again if given the same chance?

Well I had to put the bass down and go home because I was sick.

[LaVonne]

Yes, we did once. Years ago there at Camp Meeting, I don't even know who was preaching and wasn't too impressed either. Anyway, we had a baby and a toddler and they were tired and it was miserably hot, so we got up and left even though the preacher said not too.

[Rico]

I walked out of a service once but can't remember why.

I'm pretty sure I have walked out when Bro. Fauss would start implying that the people in his church should vote Democrat during the middle of his sermons...

Also at my parents church I literally cannot keep from laughing when some of the people sing so I have to leave for a few minutes. One of the songs was to the tune of, "On Top of Spaghetti" and it was two old ladies singing it as a duet.

[ILG]

I walked out of a service, not because of the preacher, but because a woman got mad at me because I was with my baby in the crying room (Maybe nobody calls it the crying room....that's what we called it in the Catholic church I grew up in) and the baby was, you guessed it, crying. She asked to hold my baby at first and when I declined she got mad, told me I was a bad mother and stormed out. She was a pillar of the church. I went and got the keys from my husband and left.

[jillian]

Only one time in my life, and it was hard.

I was visting a church that was in revival, I was on my third night there, having a good time. I was new in the Lord..(translated NAIVE.)

By the third night this Evangelist had figured out who my pastor was. My pastor was a very conservative man, just not quite as conservative as the Evangilist was.

I had even brought visitors with me.. The third night this man preaching his conservative views hot and heavy. He got right in our face with his finger and told us our pastor was hellbound and taking us with him...The church was shoutin right along with him screaming at us..

His first mistake was talking about my beloved Pastor.. Them was fighting words!!!!

We got up and left... I could name this man and the majority of you would know him.. I won't...I have no desire to cast a bad light on his ministry.. This man today does not even hold the same conservative views he did back then.. I hope one day to get the chance to talk to him.

Bad choices happen in life, People get in the flesh, I understand that, I have no bad feelings concerning him..

The only time I ever left a service...

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

Lost, what are you reaching for here, friend?

[berkeley]

I thought I would remember something like this... I don't remember if I ever walked out [in protest].

[IBCrazier2]

There is only one service that I don't plan on walking out of........that is if my wife don't burn me ...