My most akward church experience EVER.

Well, I haven't really planned anything just yet, but I figured I might as well post a quick story just to get some content up.  This is the story of my most awkward experience in a church EVER.  It was a few years ago that I was attending a new church.  That is, the church was new to me.  I was trying out all different sorts of churches to gather different experiences since I was training to become a pastor one day. 

Anyway, this particular church was pretty decent at first.  It had an ethnicly diverse congregation, which is good.  I like to see all sorts of people at church together.  The pastor was VERY old school.  While this can be good sometimes, it can lead to akwardness in some situations.  Anyway, this pastor did something during one church service that created the MOST AKWARD experience I've ever had in a church in my life.

It all started out as a normal Sunday service.  We were in the middle of the worship part of the service.  You know, they put song lyrics up on a screen and everyone all sings together about how awesome God is and stuff.  Cool beans.  But then the pastor got up on stage and motioned for the worship band to put the tunes on pause.  He got on the mic to make an announcement.  What he said will be forever tatooed in my brain forever.  He said, "Now I want all of you African American brothers to know that if you want to do that yodelling thing that you do while you sing, then that's perfectly fine.  Feel free to do so!"  I don't know if that's a perfect quote but the term "yodelling" was DEFINATELY used. 

As soon as he said this, the biggest akward silence I'd ever heard spread through out the church.  No one knew how to react.  I can only assume that what the pastor refered to as yodelling was meant to be something like the style of singing you hear in R&B music.  You know, where the vocalist displays their skills by moving up and down a scale?  Anyway, it was all kinds of messed up that the pastor said that.  He basicly said that all black people sing like R&B singers.  After the initial shock wore off, the entire church just went on with the service and pretended that it never happened.  Needless to say, I switched out of that church as soon as possible (for more reasons than this, but those are stories for another time).  My friend (who was there) and I still like to talk about how weird and akward it was.  I guess comedy equals tragedy plus time.