{"id":266,"date":"2020-09-23T11:13:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T11:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:15:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T11:15:27","slug":"how-many-christians-does-it-take-to-change-a-light-bulb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"How Many Christians Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charismatic: Only 1 &#8211; Hands are already in the air.<br>Pentecostal: 10 &#8211; One to change the bulb, and nine to pray against the spirit of darkness.<br>Presbyterians: None &#8211; Lights will go on and off at predestined times.<br>Roman Catholic: None &#8211; Candles only. (Of guaranteed origin of course.)<br>Baptists: Undetermined &#8211; Whether your light is bright, dull, or completely out, you are loved. You can be a light bulb, turnip bulb, or tulip bulb. Bring a bulb of your choice to the Sunday lighting service and a covered dish to pass.<br>Nazarene: 6 &#8211; One woman to replace the bulb while five men review church lighting policy.<br>Episcopalians: 3 &#8211; One to call the electrician, one to mix the drinks, and one to talk about how much better the old one was.<br>Mormons: 5 &#8211; One man to change the bulb, and four wives to tell him how to do it.<br>Unitarians: We choose not to make a statement either in favour of or against the need for a light bulb. However, if in your own journey you have found that light bulbs work for you, you are invited to write a poem or compose a modern dance about your light bulb for the next Sunday service, in which we will explore a number of light bulb traditions, including incandescent, fluorescent, 3-way, long-life and tinted, all of which are equally valid paths to luminescence.<br>Methodists: At least 15 &#8211; One to change the light bulb, and three committees to approve the change and decide who brings the potato salad and fried chicken.<br>C of E: 3 men &#8211;  one man to hold the bulb and the other two to turn the other one round.<br>Lutherans: None &#8211; Lutherans don&#8217;t believe in change.<br>Christian Psychotherapists: 1, but it really , really must want to change.<br>Amish: What\u2019s a light bulb?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charismatic: Only 1 &#8211; Hands are already in the air.Pentecostal: 10 &#8211; One to change the bulb, and nine to pray against the spirit of darkness.Presbyterians: None &#8211; Lights will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humour"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}