TOP 10 REASONS TO LIKE CLC
(By Scott Kludt and Mark Stein for a Friends at Christ event)

10. Fabulous knee and calf workouts during the liturgy.

9. Only church that promises service in less than one hour and 15 minutes, or it’s free

8. Telling your friends that your wedding was on Lovers Lane.

7. New building with new roof reassures parishioners that when it rains, God has not forgotten his promise about that flood thing.

6. Phone lines are now open and church organist Chuck Blanchard is standing by to take your Billboard Top 40 Hymn requests.

5. We know which canned goods have the highest weight-to-cost ratios.

4. "2009 CLC ANNUAL BUDGET MEETING: THE MUSICAL" is scheduled to open on Broadway next month.

3. Congregational responses sound less and less uptight with each passing year. 

2. Youth minister is the spitting image of Jesus.

1. Ongoing promise by Pastor Bill that he will deliver the sermon as a rap song for a month straight if the Chicago Cubs ever win the World Series.