First-Year Seminarian Ready To Take Over For Senior Pastor If Necessary

[Jim]

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• I know a “Lee”, perhaps you know him as well, who runs a Christian camp. I’ve been to enough Christian camps to know that they use silly skits for a purpose. So “the Bee” uses silliness / satire in the same way

Emphasis mine

Perhaps I do :)

The truly outstanding Christian camps adamantly refuse silly skits with a “message”—just sayin’….

A former pastor of mine once preached “Mary Had a Little Lamb” in hellfire and brimstone fashion, complete with the cup of water and wetness all around the pulpit. Saith a dear brother of mine about the incident: “That man needs a wife.” Young lady in the area thoughtfully stroked her chin….

(I am not making this up….it was great)

This was at the same retreat where the same pastor roped a friend of mine and I into singing a song in praise of Pepto-Bismol for the entire group. So we claimed that, sadly, our tenor had hurt his ankle playing broom-ball, we’d heard that there was a young man from Escanaba (our pastor) who could fill in.

Moral of the story, as it were, is that we’re funny, sometimes goofy people, and we should enjoy it. And I’ve got my bubbles ordered from Family Christian bookstores for the kids….hope they don’t go bankrupt again before it’s delivered!