A new minister in a small Oklahoma town spent the first four days making personal visits to each of the members, inviting them to come to his first services.
The following Sunday the church was nearly empty. The preacher decided to place a notice in the local newspaper, stating because the church was dead, it was everyone's duty to give it a decent Christian burial. The funeral would be held the following Sunday afternoon, the notice said.
Morbidly curious, a large crowd turned out for the "funeral." In front of the pulpit, they saw a closed coffin, smothered in flowers. After the preacher delivered the eulogy, he opened the coffin and invited his congregation to come forward and pay their final respects to their dead church.
Filled with curiosity regarding what would represent the corpse of a "dead church," all the people eagerly lined up to look in the coffin. Each "mourner" looked into the coffin and then quickly turned away with a guilty, sheepish look.
What did they see?
In the coffin, tilted at the correct angle, was a large mirror.
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