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A pastor tells the story of traveling home from his student church in Tennessee on a Sunday night. As he neared his home the car in front of him swerved and plunged down the bank. He stopped and rushed over to the car, which was overturned. He thought everyone had been killed. But the doors opened, and two men crawled-out. He helped them up to the road, and discovered they weren’t hurt, they were dead drunk. Identifying himself as a Methodist preacher, he asked them if he could help them. The driver said, "Hey, you’re a Methodist preacher, eh? Well, put’er there partner, I’m a Methodist myself."

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