One day at church when the organist started playing, my hubby stood up ( even before the choir).
You could see people looking around and some others stood up too. The minister had to look down because he started to giggle.
It was even funnier when I realized that hubby didn’t realize what he had done !
FTR, both DeathLlama and myself are Methodists. Don’t remember doing any of that, though…I should bring this up at the membership class next Sunday. 
EEhehehehheh…
I am howling over Weird Dave’s list!
I remnember writing nasty words in one of the hymnals. OF course, I feel bad about it now…
Once, when I was three years old, I started singing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer in a VERY loud voice. My mom carried me home.
My wife (and her family) are Lutheran. Their church is a zero humour environment. For almost three years now I have been threatening her with the following … it should first be pointed out that I am a godless heathen who is to be barely tolerated and at all time pitied.
Now …
Show up about 10 minutes late … have some dry ice carefully sealed inside my jacket … open the inner doors, leading into the main area where everyone would be seated (from past experience, I know that everyone looks when you do this - even the pastor) … take a step forward and, once I have crossed the shreshold, fall to my knees screaming while tearing at my chest (opening the front of the sacs of dry ice inside) … my screams and the steam billowing forth from my clothes should put the fear of god into everyone present.
Oddly enough, I sleep alone for the couple of days after this threat. Seems like a fun thing to do to me, so I do not know why she gets all upset! grin
Sit down near the back of the church during the sermon, then drop a marble and let it roll to the front. As it’s rolling, shout out, “Ahhh! My glass eye!”
Hey, I’m a Methodist, too! At least, when I go.
My pastor makes jokes during the sermon and tells funny stories and greets every single person who comes to church with a handshake. He’s a great guy.
Methodists must have a sense of humor.
Although my Grandpa, another Methodist minister, didn’t laugh when I told him “Heck is where you go if you don’t believe in Gosh.”
–Tim
Thats what I’m saying… hehe… if any of those things happened during a methodist meeting… there would be much reval and laughing… plus methodists tend to be MUCH more liberal accordingly. 
I like it that way… and wearing shorts to church hehe.
There are two kinds of Lutherans, one more liberal than the other; I think they’re called the ELCA and the Missouri Synod (aka Shiite Lutherans). I grew up Rocky Mountain Synod Lutheran, which was fairly theologically liberal, but I don’t recall a whole lot of laughter in church.
I’m a Methodist now, and we ARE a whole lot more fun.
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Easter. So you can check out all the hotties in their new easter dresses.
One of our elders, on Halloween, wore a sweater with ghosts on the front. I sing in the choir and therefore was behind her as she stepped forward to recieve the offering. As she said a prayer over it I had terrible trouble keeping from laughing as I could see what the congregation would see as soon as she was done and turned her back to them. The back of her sweater said BOO!
How about passing out flyers at the end of the service inviting everyone to join your coven?
(Sorry if I offended anyone with my previous sig line.)
Praise Jesus!
Seriously though, you’re right about Missouri Synod Lutherans being “Shiite Lutherans”. A buddy of mine from Iowa grew up Missouri Synod Lutheran,(I grew up Methodist/Catholic). We go to church together now, and he’s frequently disturbed by my comments, laughter & general lack of stone seriousness at church. I think he goes out of some sense of duty, while I go because I enjoy it. For some reason, he can’t really comprehend church = fun. He’s also very disturbed when I point out pretty women to him in the middle of the service- as if that’s somehow a bad thing!
For me, there’s no reason church can’t be fun. Some of my fondest memories are my brother & I cutting up, and actually managing to make our Dad start laughing in the process. Then again, I did go to a Jesuit high school, so I’m probably more irreverent than most…
When someone asks you your favorite verse of the Bible, tell them “Psalm 137:8-9.”
For strange & freaky bible verses I prefer II Kings, Chapter 2, verses 23-24:
23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. “Go on up, you baldhead!” they said. “Go on up, you baldhead!”
24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.
Doesn’t get much weirder than this…