When sermon illustrations go awry

With all due respect to those who use them, I can not STAND sermon illustrations that use props. I always feel like my intelligence is being insulted.

But here’s a great illustration of why they’re even more dangerous than you may have thought!

A Sheboygan Falls pastor and parishioner were issued municipal citations Thursday for firing an arrow during Sunday’s service as part of a sermon illustration.

About 120 people were attending the evening service at Pentecostals of Sheboygan County, 621 Broadway, when the Rev. John Putnam had Jason Wilke, 26, draw and fire a steel-tipped practice arrow across the front of the church.

Putnam called it a “teaching tool.”

Police call it illegal.

Read more here.

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