I remember when:
* children sat in church with their parents and doodled on the tithe envelopes with a golf pencil found in the pew.
* pastors wore suit and ties, but when the preaching was really good, he would take off his coat and throw it to his wife on the front row.
* cutting edge Sunday school technology were felt boards.
* there was a little sign at the front of the church that told the attendance, offering and how many visitors we had at church.
* we had church Sunday mornings, Sunday nights and Wednesday nights and to miss any of the three meetings was next to heresy.
* the only instruments in the church were a piano and an organ. Guitars and drums were for the nightclubs and bars.
* favorite songs could be identified by the page number of the holy hymnal. My favorite was #267 or “I’ll Fly Away”. For some reason, though, we never sang the third verse of any song.
* you could get in big trouble if you got your “church clothes” dirty before church started.
* it was considered a “great Sunday” when the preacher did not preach and people prayed at the altar instead.
* people who sang “specials” never sounded that special and always had to read the words of the song off the back of a cassette label. They would say “don’t listen to me, just listen to the words.”
* the church building always smelled like sheep actually lived there during the week.
What do you remember?