1. You need a month's notice to prepare. (Solomon)
2. Preaching is low on your priority list. (Solomon)
3. No one even knows you're a preacher. (Solomon)
4. You are asked to pray alter prayer and you hurridly decline. (Epps)
5. You won't go to some engagements because the money isn't right. (Epps)
6. You spend more money on your clothes then you would books. (Epps)
7. Churches invite you to sang on program more than they do to preach. (Epps)
8. You go to the convention dressed to the T but don't have no money to eat. (Epps)
9. Your preaching is just a collection of popular cliches by other preachers. (Mckneely)
10. You are afraid to preach at some churches because they actually know the bible. (Solomon)
11. The deacon's short talk has more word than your sermon. (Solomon)
12. Reading the scripture is like the national anthem, it has nothing to do with what follows.(Solomon)
13. You have your own quartet group. (KB)
14. You made your own self a bishop. (KB)
15. A sports star wears suits more often than you. (Solomon)
16. Your text and title changes, but not your sermon. (Solomon)
17. You can't pray for the offering without WHOOPING. (Joubert)
18. You email pastors via BPN asking for preaching opportunities. (Joubert)
19. People would rather SEE your suit than HEAR your sermon. (Joubert)
20. You got your calling yesterday and started preaching today (KB)
21. Your convention attendance is better than your church attendance (Joubert)
22. Your members refer to you by a cool nickname you have thought up. (Solomon)
23. Your sermon close only consists of a string of songs (White)
24. Your wife & kids are the only members of your congregation (White)
25. Your car looks better than your church (White)
26. You're preaching against domestic violence while your wife is on the second pew wearing sun glasses (White)
27. Your pulpit is a dining chair with a tablecloth over it. (Servant)
28. Your love offering is bigger than the tithes and offering (Servant)
29. The mother of your church is a 28 year old grandmother. (Servant)
30. You think that the Book of Hezekiah is in the Old Testaments. (Servant)
31. Your sermon ends immediately because the lights went out. (Joubert)
32. Each piece of your three-piece suit comes from a different Easter. (Joubert)
33. You pray, “Our Father, which art in heaven, HOLLYWOOD be thy name.” (Joubert)
34. People refer to you as "doctor" but you can't spell it. (Joubert)
35. Your church lights are cut off for a $300 bill while you take home a $1500 check (Solomon)
36. Your new wife and ex-wife both belong to your church (Solomon)
37. You did not graduate high school and call yourself doctor.(Bey)
38. You buy "hot" merchandise and testify the Lord blessed you with it.(Servant)
39. You're always collecting building fund money and there is still no building and no fund.(Servant)
40. Your chairman of deacons is the neighborhood drug dealer. (Servant)
41. You hand out wrinkled business cards with a pre-scratched out phone number.(Servant)
42. The church utilities are in a dead relative's name.(Servant)
43. The announcements are longer than the sermon.(Servant)
44. You and the chairman of deacons share eyeglasses.(Servant)
45. You may lose your anointing if someone touches you.(Servant)
46. You believe your members should do as you say and not as you do.(Servant)
47. Your 3 night revival is used as a fundraiser and you don't pay the evangelist.(Joubert)
48. You believe in paying the musician more than the preacher.(Solomon)
49. Your preaching boils down to you imitating another preacher. (Malbro)
50. You use real wine for communion and always take the leftover home.(Solomon)
51. Your church is a walk-in closet and the mic system takes up half the space.(Solomon)
52. Your study is bigger than your sanctuary.(Mckneely)
53. Your wife is church clerk, mission president, head usher, and announcing clerk.(Mckneely)
54. Your church has no money but you write a salary check each week as IOU.(Mckneely)

(Please feel free to add to the list... (serious and/or tongue-in-cheek)

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# 39 - I got an uncle with NO high school diploma and he BE a Doctor...Matter of fact he his neffews that he EARNED his D.D...Now Unc...We all know D.D. stands for Didn't Do It...
oh no... seems we may know the same bootleg preacher... LOL okay, i'ma stop now.... i needed that laugh though...
or if you say "YOU AINT PRAYING WITH ME" and they say "YOU AINT PREACHING TO ME."
# 1 = If that is the case...You AINT GOT NO ANOINTMENT...Or it came in a bottle and can be RUBBED off...
Servant...#7...I got a buddy who's armor is THAT dude right there
Between me and you Jube, is that buddy in SF Cali???
Actually OAKLAND...
Servant....I am in serious prayer for you...and I mean SEER REE USS...
you are a bootlegger when: You use a 3 night revival for a fund raiser and then you can't pay the evangelist...
If you believe in paying the musicians more than the preacher.
Boy,boy, boy...negros have had some experiences in the church and the church has experienced some negros,,,
we are nearing the half way mark,,, The doors are open; Is there one??? One preacher who will come now and confessed his bootlegged-ness???
When you are preaching and sound exactly like preachers that other preachers know (just to name a few Frank Ray, R.A.Williams, Jasper Williams, C.L.Frankiln,Leroy Elliott)

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