You know You're PENTECOSTAL when .....
1 ) The amount of money you spend on hair spray exceeds your gas bill.
2) Your Pastor announces midweek services EVERY Sunday night.
3) You (or the ladies you know) can swim in a denim skirt and still have fun.
4) It takes longer to TAKE prayer requests than it does to pray for them.
5) Your brother or sister in the Lord hugs you right in the middle of Wal-Mart.
6) The musicians at your church can tear it up, but none of them can read sheet music.
7) You have 50 pairs of church shoes.
8)You're adept at stopping runs in stockings with just about anything
.
9) You're considered an old maid if you're not married by age 18.
10) You consider Bible college "higher education."
11) Running the aisles and jumping up and down is your exercise.
12) A birthday party is a night on the town.
13) You could be an Olympic volleyball player with all the practice from church functions.
14) Your white choir moves like Kirk Franklin's group.
15 ) The amount of money you spend on hair spray exceeds your gas bill.
16) Your Pastor announces midweek services EVERY Sunday night.
17) You (or the ladies you know) can swim in a denim skirt and still have fun.
18) It takes longer to TAKE prayer requests than it does to pray for them.
19) Your brother or sister in the Lord hugs you right in the middle of Wal-Mart.
20) The musicians at your church can tear it up, but none of them can read sheet music.
21) You have 50 pairs of church shoes.
22)You're adept at stopping runs in stockings with just about anything
.
23) You're considered an old maid if you're not married by age 18.
24) You consider Bible college "higher education."
25) Running the aisles and jumping up and down is your exercise.
26) A birthday party is a night on the town.
27) You could be an Olympic volleyball player with all the practice from church functions.
28) The pastor says, "With this thought, I close," more than three times each service.
29) that the saying is true.. "MODEST IS THE HOTTEST"
30) Your feet have been stomped on at least 3 times during a service.
31 )u have a closet is full of skirts for EVERY occasion.
32) You judge a church service by swollen eyes, rumpled clothes, and disheveled hair.
33) Your kids know how to eat any crunchy thing quietly.
34) When shopping for shirts, you always run it through the "Praise The Lord" test.
35) Sunday and Wednesday mean no cooking or dishes.
36) You can maneuver into a vehicle without messing up your hairdo.
38) Celebrating your 21st birthday doesn't mean much.
39) The employees at jerseys know you by name.
40) You can always find hairpins on the floor after a good service.
41) youth convention is your "new york fashion week"
42) Mondays and Thursdays are the hardest days to wake up in the morning.
43) The employees at the restaurant near church knows you by name.
44) You can always find hairpins on the floor after
good service.
45) You can pronounce, "Habakkuk."
46 ) Mondays and Thursdays or wednesdays are the hardest days to
wake up in the morning.
47) Your day of rest includes 2 church services, choir
practice, and Golden Corral.
48) The kids you know think shot glasses are for
playing communion.
49) Growing up you baptize your cousins and siblings
several times in the swimming pool.
50) Your 2 year-old runs through Wal-Mart shouting,
"Praise the Lord! Eb shamma dabba yamma yabba dooba!
*clap, clap* Yes, Lord! Yes, Lord! Thank You, Jesus!
Hallelujah!!"
51) Your tan line goes up to your knee.
52) The only thing longer than your prayer list is the hair of the ladies you know
53) when Hotels put out welcome signs during June.
54)Not finding hairpins and pantyhose is a sign of revival
55) Your 2 yr old knows just about every song your church sings, and worships with the church!
56)Again your 2 yr old tries to pray her Cabbage Patch doll through! "Holy Ghost" "Speak it"
57) This is for the girls...you swoon when you see a guy in a suit!
58) Guys....you love it when a girl gets out and starts dancing in the spirit!
59) You spend more time at church then you do anywhere else!
60)Going to church is like major fun!
61)You get more dressed up for church then you do anything else!
62)When an event calls for church dress, you have to go shopping because all of your church stuff is too fancy
63)when every thing your church does revolves around food
64)You're somewhere other then church and you say hallelujah, Jesus, or praise the Lord outta no where.
65) You have bobby pins in your bathroom, car, bag/purse, and room.
66)You have a bunch of curlers (iron hair curler or hot sticks--or something similar.)
67You pray for everything because we all know Anything is possible through Jesus.
68)Going crazy for Jesus is way normal
69)No one is ashamed to cry in front of anyone. Not even the boys.
70)Staying after church for like an hour or even later is another normal thing.
71)Fasting & Praying is also something thats normal.
72)when ever you go out of the city you look for wal-mart
73)When your "jewelry box" consists of hairstuff, (barrettes, clips, etc.)
74)When offering is like an auction. "1000 over here, okay anybody else willing to give 1000?
okay how about 750. 750? Okay thank you very much, God Bless you. How about 500?"
75) when you think that the solution to everything is bobby pins and hairspray
76)When you know the Taco Bell menu by heart. Or any menu at that. hah!
77) When you have an arguement over what type of hairspray is the best
78) When your casserole dish and your cake pans are the two most used dishes
79) When you know what everyone will bring to the potluck dinner
80)When you practice at least 5 songs at choir practice before church but you only sing two
81) You can fit at least 30 young people in the church van that is supposed to only hold at maximum 15
82) On Sunday night church lets out early if its at 10:00
83) You cant buy something at JC Penny's unless its at least 40% off the original price
84) Your kid can recite Acts 2:38 before they turn 5
85) You know how to sing play the organ and direct the choir at the same time
How many of these fits YOU???
Many who have read this have giggled through the list and KNOW there is ALOT of Truth!
Now the Pastor and Youth Pastor have a checklist to make sure each of us are good Apostolic Pentecostals