What Is A Real Christian by Bruno Horst Bull

Story title: What is A Real Christian
by: Bruno Horst Bull

    The new pastor chose as the topic for his first sermon:"What is a real Christian?" He climaxed each point of the sermon with the same question. And sometimes he nailed it down by slamming his fist onto the pulpit. He kept asking the question without answering it, hoping that each of the  parishioners would do that personally.
    On that particular Sunday, there was a little boy attending church with his mother, and the more often he heard that unanswered question, the more unsettled and nervous he became about it. At one
point he whispered to his mother, "Mommy, do you know what a real Christian is?"
     She whispered back, "Yes. Yes, I know what a real Christian is. Now be quiet."
    The little boy kept still until the preacher wound up his sermon by again intoning solemnly and slowly:" I'm asking you all for the last time, what is a real Christian?"
    The lad could stand the tension no longer. So he poked his mother is the side with his elbow ans shouted out loud, "Mommy, for heaven's sake, tell him. Tell him."