There was a preacher in a church down South who was getting more and more distressed by all the "Sunday" Christians who showed up for church on Sunday but were not good Christians the rest of the week.

A fire-and-brimstone kind of guy, he got up in the pulpit one Sunday morning and laid into his congregation.

There is SIN in this Church!" he hollered. "You people are all sinners and I'm getting tired of it!

Its time to confess to your sins before God and your fellow sinners.

We are going to have a cleansing.

Right here!

Right now!

CONFESS you sinners.

Tell us your sins and clean yourself in the eyes of the Lord! Who's first?"

He walks down the aisle pointing at first one then another still hollering "Confess" and "Who will be first?"

One man in the back couldn't take it any longer and stood up.

"I will preacher. I'm a sinner. I've been spending all my money drinking and whoring instead of taking care of my family." and the preacher yells back "Good! God will forgive you if you mend your ways."

And to the audience, C'mon! Who's next? I want to hear it all!"

And another broke and stood. "I've hit my wife and children. Forgive me God!" and the preacher replied. "Yes! Yes! That's the way! Let me hear it all. Give it all to me."

And then another man stood and said "I've taken money from my boss and then used that money to gamble."

And again the preacher shouts out in ecstasy, "Yes! Yes! That's the way! Let me hear it all. Give it all to me. I want to hear EVERYBODY! Give it ALL to me!"

And still another man stood and said in a firm voice: "I've had sex with a goat."

And the preacher replies in a calm voice "Damn, brother! I don't think I would confess to that!"