There once was a church that had only party rooms: the Session's Party Room, the Music Party Room, the Love Mercy Party Room, the Touch Lepers Party Room. In the center of the building was a large round room with an altar and a cross: God's Party Room.

There was, in the church, an air of festivity and brightness that could not be denied. The people outside the church pointed their fingers and shook their heads. "Something should be done about that church." They were especially upset when they saw that members wore party hats and smiles both inside and outside the church.

Other congregations came to take a look and were shocked when they saw this church having so much fun during a worship service, snapping their fingers and dancing.

"Sacrilegious!" screamed the crowd. But the people in the church just smiled at them and went right on doing things like taking people in wheelchairs to the park and playing ball with them.

When everybody else was collecting canned goods for the poor, this church bought pizza and marched right into dingy, dirty, paint peeling apartments and sat down to eat with the tenants.

They held picnics for the old folks home and old men ran races while the congregation stamped their feet in applause. It was at one of these picnics that some of the members climbed up on the roof and shouted: "GOOD NEWS!"

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