• There Is A Story About The President Of ...  PRO

  Contributed by Jeeva Sam on Jun 28, 2001 (message contributor)

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  Tags:  Endurance, Lord's Prayer, Apologetics General

  Denomination: Methodist

There is a story about the President of Anheiser-Busch who went over to the Vatican for a private audience with the Pope. The meeting went something like this:

“Holy Father, we are prepared to make a donation of $10 million to the church if you would simply replace ‘Give us this day our daily bread’ with

’Give us this day our daily beer.’”

“I’m afraid, that’s not possible, my son.”

“Could you do it for a bigger contribution, say $25 million dollars?”

“I’m afraid that’s not possible, my son.”

“Holy Father, here is my final offer.