Shaun Groves
Our story today comes from Acts chapter 20.
The apostle Paul loved to travel around teaching people about Jesus. One time Paul was teaching a crowd of people in a third story room.
Paul talked and talked and talked until it was dark outside, for hours and hours. He talked so long that a boy named Eutychus got very very tired.
Do you ever get tired in church?
Well, let’s see what happened to Eutychus when he got tired in church.
Eutychus fell asleep! When he dozed off he fell out the window – three stories down to the ground!
Thud.
He was dead.
Paul brought Eutychus back to life. But I bet Eutychus never fell asleep in church again. Or sat near the window.
Iva says:
Is Eutychus pronounced: ‘You teach us?’ Coincidence?
😉
Chris says:
I was always told it was “you ta cus,” as in “You’da cuss if you fell out of a window, too.
Ben says:
zing!
Michelle says:
We have a couple of men who regularly snore in church. They don’t sit near the window. One of them now goes out to the foyer to sleep while the pastor’s preaching – saves his wife’s elbow in his ribs I guess. The other one also used to sleep at Bible study. Come in, take his shoes off and doze off….until the day the leader got out a water pistol, squirted and said “You don’t fall asleep here!”
Embarrassed wife says:
You know, I used to think those men falling asleep during sermons was ridiculous and sacrilegious.
Until my husband became one of them, that is! Now I know that there is a condition called Sleep Apnea (my husband suffers from it) that makes it hard for some to stay seated still for more than 1 minute without snoring.
We stopped going to church for a while because I was so embarrassed. And then we figured, its ok. God knows. God understands. He wants us there. So now…… I have elbow cramp by the end of each church service. But its ok.
Heather EV says:
That’s pretty hilarious. I don’t understand why people go to church and fall asleep. What’s the point?
misty says:
Know why his name was Eutychus?
Because You da cuss too if you fell out the window.
Okay, Okay…bad joke but funny.
My husband used to work 3rd shift on Saturday and we would go to church when he got home on Sunday and he would regularly doze and I would have to wake him constantly.
One Sunday, I told him to not fall asleep and he said he wouldn’t. About that time the pastor said “Let’s pray” and Darrin (my husband) leaned over and whispered to me “now I am” (falling asleep). I lost it! I was giggling so hard people probably thought I was having an awesome moment in prayer with the Holy Spirit. But, really I was just laughing and couldn’t stop.
Anyways….
Thomas says:
Where was Paul’s responsibility in all of this? If he did not keep poor Eutychus up so late, he would not of fell out of the window.
Mark says:
This seems like the kind of story you should hear in Sunday School. Remind you to stay awake.
There have been weeks I got a great night’s sleep the night before and fell asleep. And week’s I got too little sleep and stayed awake no problem. Falling asleep in church is embarrassing, but I can’t always seem to control it.
Jennifer Johnson says:
Seriously, I have Sleep Apnea and my husband has Narcolepsy. I can so understand the falling asleep in church thing! — we don’t sit anywhere near windows. Or balconies. or stages. – back row all the way for us… haha.
Meredith says:
It’s always been surprising to me which stories are chosen to tell children when they’re young and overly impressionable. For example, Noah and the Ark.
*parent tucking a kid into bed*
“Once upn a time, God hated the world because it was evil. But he liked Noah and his family, so he taught them to build a boat. Later, God drowned the whole earth… sleep tight little Jimmy!”
Seriously… not a a good bed time story.
Shayne says:
I thought your version was funny Shaun.
The real thing probably wasn’t funny. I wonder if God used that as a teaching tool for Paul or for Eutychus?
Hmmm…
Amy says:
I had a friend tell me a story from her former church. A man had fallen asleep in the back and was startled awake and was so confused that he stood up and closed the service in prayer.
Linda says:
…And Elisha finished his walk!
Seriously, I LOVE these posts. I hope you keep them up. My husband loves them too.