I heard about a small country church that was holding a revival in a packed building. It was so crowded that they had to put up chairs everywhere, right up to the pulpit. The evangelist was preaching about the second coming of Christ and had really warmed up to the subject. He was one of those fire and brimstone kind of preachers that marched up and down the pulpit. At one point of his sermon he leaned over toward the audience and shouted out Jesus’ promise: “I am coming soon”
He marched up and down the stage some more and then leaned out again over the edge of the stage and cried out, “I am coming soon”
Several minutes went by and again he shouted out, “I am coming soon” But this time, he got tangled up in the
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