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Cat Funerals and Other Strange Pastor Requests!

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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"I need you to do a funeral for my cat."

Yes, that is a request made to a pastor by a church member. And here's the stranger reality. I have heard from dozens of pastors who have had this very request.

I assume the cats in question were dead.

Though I have heard hundreds of strange and unreasonable requests made to pastors, five of them are common. In fact, most pastors will encounter all five of these requests in the course of their ministries.

1. Ask certain people to leave the church. The common theme is the request to get people who are not like us to leave the church. A church member asked one pastor to have a separate church service in the trailer park for "those people coming to our church." Yes, really.

Read more at: http://www.christianpost.com/news/5-common-unreasonable-requests-church-members-make-pastors-181669/

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