When Reverend Rigby wanted to teach his congregation a lesson about being kind to others he came up with a rather colourful way of demonstrating his point.
As the 70 churchgoers turned up for their regular Sunday morning service at the Methodist church in Prestatyn, north Wales they found a scruffy tramp sitting in the church porch.
Stinking of beer and dressed in filthy clothes, the disgusted churchgoers did their best to ignore him as they filed past.
This task was made even harder when the unwanted guest joined them on the pews, surrounded with syringes and drinking from a can of lager.
Here's the reverend in his tramp outfit:
And here's what he looks like normally:
It's slightly cruel to play such a practical joke on your parishioners, I suppose, but would Jesus do any differently? (I'm agnostic, but this fits in with Biblical teaching).
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