{"id":16819,"date":"2025-02-23T19:34:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T19:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=16819"},"modified":"2025-02-23T19:34:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T19:34:41","slug":"a-couple-at-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=16819","title":{"rendered":"A couple at the church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5645-300x157.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5645-300x157.webp 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5645.webp 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nLet\u2019s explore a funny story about a couple at church. If you\u2019re looking for a chuckle, this might just be what you need. It\u2019s a relatable situation, and hopefully, it\u2019ll bring a smile to your face.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a husband and wife sitting in church. The service is quite long, and as often happens, one of them, in this case, the wife, starts to feel a bit drowsy. She can\u2019t help but drift off to sleep. Her husband, noticing her slumber, decides to try and gently wake her. He pokes her gently with his finger.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as fate would have it, just as he pokes her, the preacher asks a question to the congregation. The question is about a significant event in biblical history: \u201cWho was it that led the Israelites to freedom from their slavery in Egypt?\u201d The startled wife, suddenly jolted awake, blurts out, \u201cThe Almighty!\u201d before promptly falling back asleep.<\/p>\n<p>The service continues, and after a while, the husband again tries to rouse his sleeping wife. He pokes her once more, and, coincidentally, the preacher asks another question. This time, the question is about sacrifice and forgiveness: \u201cWho sacrificed themselves for the forgiveness of our sins?\u201d The wife, still half-asleep, manages to mumble, \u201cJesus Christ!\u201d before succumbing to sleep again.<\/p>\n<p>Undeterred, the husband makes a third attempt to wake his wife. He pokes her yet again. However, this time, the preacher\u2019s question is a bit different. It\u2019s a rather specific question from the Book of Genesis: \u201cWhat words did Eve speak to Adam after the birth of their last child?\u201d At this point, the wife is clearly frustrated with her husband\u2019s constant poking. She\u2019s been repeatedly woken up, and she\u2019s not happy about it. So, instead of answering the preacher\u2019s question, she turns to her husband and, with a touch of exasperation, exclaims, \u201cI swear, if you touch me with that again, I\u2019ll snap it in half!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s explore a funny story about a couple at church. If you\u2019re looking for a chuckle, this might just be what you need. It\u2019s a relatable situation,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16821,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16819\/revisions\/16821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}