29 GIFs For Anyone Who Grew Up In A Black Church

[orangeblossom]

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So funny.

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13. When you’re ready to go but the choir fires up “I Won’t Complain” and you know it’s going to take them 40 minutes to finish the whole song.


27. When the pastor finally dismisses the congregation but you have to wait until your parents are finished talking before you can leave.

[orangeblossom]

Mar 3, 2015 18:39:27 GMT -5 @songforyou said:

I'm Catholic, so most of these don't apply to my black church, but I will be adding many of these to my gif repertoire, nonetheless. "Amen? Amen."

Yes, definitely will be bookmarking for when I need a good GIF.

[thejackpot]

What I think is unfair is my kids will only know this from the few times we go to church with my grandma, the Lutheran church we attend is a snooze fest compared to the black church of my youth.

[katfco]

Never been to a black church, but number 22 is so much like one of the professors at the Christian college I went to. When he would speak during chapel or a lectureship, he'd always choose "Just as I am" as the invitation song, and we would sing all 6 verses over and over until he felt enough people had come forward. The longest stretch I remember is around 17 verses.

We'd get to around 10 verses and it seemed like no one else was going to come forward, and then a handful would walk up, so he'd feel the need to keep going.

[Black Lavender]

#10!!!! "...I'd like to thank the Lord for blessing me over the dangerous highways and byways...

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[thejackpot]

Mar 3, 2015 18:52:43 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

Mar 3, 2015 18:46:00 GMT -5 thejackpot said:

What I think is unfair is my kids will only know this from the few times we go to church with my grandma, the Lutheran church we attend is a snooze fest compared to the black church of my youth.

No MLK paper fans?! No crumbled saltine communion crackers? No welchs grape juice communion wine?!!

My wedding programs were paper fans, they were my nod to my grandma's church. 
This was not a gif but my cousins and I used to play church and use grape kool-aid and crackers for communion.

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Lollll forever. I grew up Pentecostal and although not thoroughly black, this was pretty spot on for that church I went to.

My brother and I used to play "Benny Hinn" when we were little. It consisted of us jumping on our parents bed, smacking each other in the forehead and with pillows while shouting "IN THE NAME OF JEEEEZUS!" until the other fell down "in the spirit".

[redwino]

Loved these. Man we used to act a fool on that back pew until somebody caught that eye and we'd all get some act-right. The speaking in tongues one had me dying. That is the exact face.

[katfco]

Mar 3, 2015 20:08:48 GMT -5 redwino said:

Loved these. Man we used to act a fool on that back pew until somebody caught that eye and we'd all get some act-right. The speaking in tongues one had me dying. That is the exact face.

once, when I was a teenager we were acting silly one day and made the mistake of being in front of my grandmother. She leaned forward and smacked all of us upside the head. Five in a row--and only two of us were hers

[redwino]

Mar 3, 2015 20:23:49 GMT -5 katfco said:

Mar 3, 2015 20:08:48 GMT -5 redwino said:

Loved these. Man we used to act a fool on that back pew until somebody caught that eye and we'd all get some act-right. The speaking in tongues one had me dying. That is the exact face.

once, when I was a teenager we were acting silly one day and made the mistake of being in front of my grandmother. She leaned forward and smacked all of us upside the head. Five in a row--and only two of us were hers

Yea my church was basically a free for all when it came to getting on the kids too. Anybody's mama could get you and you knew not to say a word back.

[summer]

Man, the Black church is the thing that I most want my kids to know about and the thing I'm having the hardest time "explaining" from abroad. If my kids don't understand the church and its ways by age 18, I have failed

[summer]

#10 and 11!!!!

[mrsukyankee]

I'm not black, nor went to a black church, but having been the grand-daughter of a Methodist minister, several of these (especially #27) truly do fit.

[orangeblossom]

Mar 4, 2015 11:05:23 GMT -5 mryrcn said:

I once attended a church where they spoke in tongues. I got up and hid in the bathroom.

Why do black church services last so darn long. The few I went to involved being there all day.

You've got to have multiple offerings, a call to the altar (and if no one comes or not enough, they keep asking), multiple songs, call to worship, etc.  The last few churches I've gone too, have gotten service down to about an hour, maybe a little bit more.

[NitaX]

This whole thing was awesome. LOL

The other week, I was telling my H about this church member that would get up before doing altar call and say the same thing - every week. I called my sis and started off the sentence .. "What a friend we have in Jesus ..." and she finished the rest of it. My H was like WOW. Only in Black Church man. Only in Black Church. LOL

[NitaX]

Mar 4, 2015 11:05:23 GMT -5 mryrcn said:

I once attended a church where they spoke in tongues. I got up and hid in the bathroom.

Why do black church services last so darn long. The few I went to involved being there all day.

What? You don't want to do 
9am Sunday School
11am Worship 
3pm Evening Program?

But, I am gonna need me a slice of Sis. Wright's pound cake and caramel cake when we have dinner between worship and the 3pm program. LOL

They need to add when your church holds a youth department fundraiser and sells fish and spaghetti plates. 

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You haven't been to CHURCH until you've got people speaking in tongues and dancing and falling out in the spirit all while the choir is belting out the goooooood stuff and going crazy.


Bring your popcorn, its good times.

[NitaX]

Mar 4, 2015 11:19:28 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

Sister Peaches would get the spirit every Sunday. That's when you knew service was coming to an end. LOL

My H has a run down of how you know it was a good service -

1. Someone is wearing a "watchable wildlife hat"




2. Someone breaks out running 



3. Sis. Johnson shouts out of her clothes

[newgirl412]

Mar 3, 2015 19:48:42 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

Lollll forever. I grew up Pentecostal and although not thoroughly black, this was pretty spot on for that church I went to.

My brother and I used to play "Benny Hinn" when we were little. It consisted of us jumping on our parents bed, smacking each other in the forehead and with pillows while shouting "IN THE NAME OF JEEEEZUS!" until the other fell down "in the spirit".

Omg...I fell out laughing reading this. I can hear Benny Hinn's voice saying "In the name of jeeezus!". My grandma used to watch him on TV on Sunday mornings.

[newgirl412]

Mar 4, 2015 11:21:38 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

You haven't been to CHURCH until you've got people speaking in tongues and dancing and falling out in the spirit all while the choir is belting out the goooooood stuff and going crazy.


Bring your popcorn, its good times.

Quoting you again lol. I went to an Independent Methodist church YEARS ago that did all that. The associate pastor even once ran out the back of the church and next thing I knew, my legs were getting brushed by him Rambo crawling it under the pews back to his seat.  The SPIRIT had hit him!

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Mar 4, 2015 11:32:49 GMT -5 newgirl412 said:

Mar 4, 2015 11:21:38 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

You haven't been to CHURCH until you've got people speaking in tongues and dancing and falling out in the spirit all while the choir is belting out the goooooood stuff and going crazy.


Bring your popcorn, its good times.

Quoting you again lol. I went to an Independent Methodist church YEARS ago that did all that. The associate pastor even once ran out the back of the church and next thing I knew, my legs were getting brushed by him Rambo crawling it under the pews back to his seat.  The SPIRIT had hit him!

One Wednesday night service the whole church got hit with "laughing in the spirit". Gave new meaning to church giggles. Another dude when he got hit with the spirit would RUN around the church. I think he might have done a backflip once. 

That place was insane. 

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Even as a small child and this having been the only church I went to til I was older, I was like

[Deleted]

They tried to force us to speak in tongues in Sunday School. A bunch of kids faked it, some actually believed it and I was all

[gazpacho]

So accurate! I used number 27 as an example in one of my classes and ALL of the Af-am students identified with it.

[simpsongal]

Buzzfeed has been a snooze lately but that was AMAZING. I went to some crazy Pentecostal churches growing up and could totally relate to some of those. Plus I love Community & Donald Glover .

[redwino]

Mar 4, 2015 11:20:14 GMT -5 NitaX said:

Mar 4, 2015 11:05:23 GMT -5 mryrcn said:

I once attended a church where they spoke in tongues. I got up and hid in the bathroom.

Why do black church services last so darn long. The few I went to involved being there all day.

What? You don't want to do 
9am Sunday School
11am Worship 
3pm Evening Program?

But, I am gonna need me a slice of Sis. Wright's pound cake and caramel cake when we have dinner between worship and the 3pm program. LOL

They need to add when your church holds a youth department fundraiser and sells fish and spaghetti plates. 

All of this! Then they might be slick and throw in a 7 pm musical. Thankfully I always had a barely go to church cousin around to get me out of there by 4:30.

The youth department at my childhood church learned that they could make bank by selling hotdogs and pepsi after church in the summer. It turns out its hard to turn down a hot dog on a hot July afternoon, even while wearing a powder blue suit and matching hat.

[2curlydogs]

My Catholic ass is giggling at the first 9.

Then 14 and 15. OMG 15. I am SUCH a Judgey McJudgerson of church choirs.

And 27. And 28.

[redwino]

Mar 4, 2015 11:32:49 GMT -5 newgirl412 said:

Mar 4, 2015 11:21:38 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

You haven't been to CHURCH until you've got people speaking in tongues and dancing and falling out in the spirit all while the choir is belting out the goooooood stuff and going crazy.


Bring your popcorn, its good times.

Quoting you again lol. I went to an Independent Methodist church YEARS ago that did all that. The associate pastor even once ran out the back of the church and next thing I knew, my legs were getting brushed by him Rambo crawling it under the pews back to his seat.  The SPIRIT had hit him!

GIRL! I would have fallen out in a fit of giggles. The crawl is just too much.

[orangeblossom]

I'll drop this here, because I always laugh, and it's appropriate for this thread.

How To Shout In A Black Church, Part 1

[orangeblossom]

How To Shout In A Black Church, Part 2