Lutheran Jokes Category

You Might Be A Lutheran If......you notice the Kool Aid stock shoots up during the Vacation Bible School season....you wonder why bread and wine are used for Communion instead of coffee and donuts....you are referred to as the frozen chosen!...Commandment #11--If it`s never been done that way before, don`t do it....you consider lottery tickets a serious investment....you make your hotdishes with cream of mushroom soup and your salads with Jell-O....you sing "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus" while sitting down....a line item in the trustee`s budget is "coffee maker maintenance." Read more

You Might Be A Lutheran If... ...you only serve Jell-O in the proper liturgical color for the season....you didn`t know chow mein noodles were a Chinese food....when someone mentions red and green (in terms of Christmas), you immediately think of a battle over hymnals....during the entire service you hold your hymnal open but never look down at it....during communion you hum the hymns so you can see who`s at church that Sunday....rather than introducing yourself to a visitor at church, you check their name out in the guestbook....you think Garrison Keillor`s stories are totally factual....you have your wedding reception in the fellowship hall and feel guilty about not staying to help clean up. Read more

You Might Be A Lutheran If... ...your church library has three Jell-O cookbooks....it`s time to change a lightbulb and the left side of the aisle begins a debate on "change," while the right side of the aisle musters five volunteers--one to hold the bulb, and four to turn the ladder....you laugh out loud while reading this list, and relive your childhood at the same time.... you think the four food groups are coffee, lefse, lutefisk, and Jell-O....you can actually come up with responses to this....you sign a petition to have Campbell Soup Co. rename its "Cream of Mushroom soup" "Lutheran Binder!"...you actually think the pastor`s jokes are funny....the bumper sticker on your car says, "Legalize Lutefisk!" Read more

You Might Be A Lutheran If... ...you talk to someone else and look at their shoes first....you have more than three friends whose first names have the letter "j" as the second letter....the only open pew is up front, so you volunteer to shovel the sidewalk....Ole and Lena are really the names of your relatives....you know what a Lutheran Church Basement Woman is....you give a party and don`t tell anyone where it is....you think hotdish is one of the major food groups....your five-year-old recites the Old Testament books as Genesis, Exodus, Lutefisk... Read more

You Might Be A Lutheran If... ...your LCMS pastor refers to St. Louis as "the holy city."...at Thanksgiving you serve lutefisk and try to convince your kids it`s really a turkey....you`re at an evangelistic rally and you actually manage to raise your hands waist high....the only mealtime prayer you know is "Come Lord Jesus."...you and your family of six squeeze into the last pew along with the 140 members already sitting there....you`re 57 years old and your parents still won`t let you date a Catholic....at the close of a memo it states "Peace be with you" and you respond "and also with you."...you can`t get into heaven without a casserole. Read more

You Might Be A Lutheran If......a midlife crisis means switching from the old hymnbook to the new one....you forget to put water in the baptismal font but never forget to put water in the coffee pot....the pastor skips the last hymn to make sure church lasts exactly 60 minutes....you make spaghetti at your house with the little macaroni noodles because they`re not so messy then....you don`t make eye contact when passing someone in the hall because you think it`s impolite....your choir believes volume is a fair substitute for tonality....you don`t know what was sooo funny about dat movie "Fargo" then....in response to someone jumping up and shouting "Praise the Lord!", you politely remind him or her that we don`t do that around here. Read more

You Might Be A Lutheran If... ...every time something changes, the old one was better....you hold your family reunion in the church basement....a capital fund drive is needed to finance the new one million cup coffee urn....you serve Jell-O as a vegetable....your biggest fund-raisers are bake sales instead of bingo....you can`t have a meeting without having a meal....you refer to your trip to Minneapolis as a pilgrimage....sharing the peace during the service takes more time than the sermon....all your relatives graduated from a school named Concordia....you count coffee among the sacraments. Read more

You Might Be A Lutheran If......someone asks you after church if there`s any "decaf coffee" and you laugh because you KNOW that if it doesn`t have caffeine, it can`t be coffee!...you think anyone who says "casserole" instead of "hotdish" is trying to be uppity (or maybe even Episcopalian!)...you think the term "Jell-O salad" is redundant....you freeze the leftover coffee from fellowship hour for next week....when you were little you actually thought the Reverend`s first name was "Pastor."...you think you`re paying your pastor too much if he gets a new car for the first time in eight years....you hear something really funny and smile as loud as you can....it takes 10 minutes to say good-bye. Read more

You Might Be A Lutheran If... ...you think tuna hotdish is a gourmet meal....your idea of an affirmation is "This is most certainly true."...you feel guilty about not feeling guilty....it`s 110 degrees outside and you still have coffee after services....change means wearing your brown suit instead of your blue suit to church....you read your Catechism and start arguing theology with yourself because no one else is around....the most mail you receive all year is from the Stewardship Committee....you take your grandfather to McDonalds for breakfast and he asks for a large order of McLefsa....you win $10 million in the lottery and decide to throw a party and money is no object, so you advertise in the church bulletin, rent the parish hall, and ask all of your friends to bring a side dish or salad. Read more

You Might Be A Lutheran If... ...you think the communion wafers are too spicy....your mother reminds you often that she wishes you`d studied the organ.... you dress up as your favorite reformer for Halloween....your mother could give any Jewish mother a run for the money in the guilt department....you think lime Jell-O with cottage cheese and pineapple is a gourmet salad....you think that an ELCA Lutheran bride and an LCMS groom make for a "mixed marriage."...Folgers has you on their Christmas list....your congregation`s first two operating rules are "Don`t change" and "Don`t spend." Read more