A verse of the hymn "The Church's One Foundation" describes the church as follows: "Elect from every nation yet one o'er all the earth." I had never seen "elect" used as a noun before, so I assumed that it was a verb and that the verse was encouraging us to hold an international election to choose one person to be President of the World. I had no idea why.
A childhood belief about hymns
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the loser of the Presidential election became the VICE President. — AirInSea
- I used to think that church songs were pop music. Well, we did sing them in church every week...— Roxy
- My fiance was in church as a kid and he saw the Vicar of the church and asked his Mum if it was God.— Andys fiancee
- I used to believe that every nation in the world were states of U.S.A. . Sometimes I still do.Anon
- I used to think everyone in the world knew and thought in English, but choose to speak different languages. Anon
- when i was little i thought god changed my name the first day i went to church— stephanie