Medical records recently uncovered by CRN.info reveals that head writer at Slice is missing a funny bone. Never mind that Jesus hung out at parties with sinners and probably occasionally laughed or smiled. Ingrid’s version of Jesus must have been a party pooper.
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I think we need to borrow the lambs book of life again. Ingrid is deciding who is a Christian and who’s not.
emphasis mine.
Jesus couldn’t have been a ‘party pooper’ as you say…
For Jesus didn’t ever poop. Didn’t you know that? He was basically human but without anything dookie/fleshy related.
Psst…I also heard…he didn’t even have a human body…but just had an image of one…and you need His special doctrinal knowledge to be saved…
Don’t let out that info though…it’s ’secret’.
Joe
Funny, as though Ron Burgandy would interview Jesus!
You mean a “Christian” contacted that demon-possessed pelegi-O-tron peace man loving “church”?
No “christian” would ever ‘associate’ or be seen with such a ultra pelegian ecumenical harlot catholic loving church like that. They obviously must NOT be Christian, by the great diviner of Slice’s standards of Reformed Jesus.
Joe
I do not subscribe to the celebrity Christian Sunday, and especially one who belongs to a salvation by sacraments church. I do have a question, though. If that interview with Ferrell is blasphemous, is it not blaspmeous to re-post it?
I mean blasphemy is blasphemy regardless whose blog or YouTube posts it, right? And how do justify being a blasphemy hunter? Never mind YouTube has a lot of real blasphemous stuff, if they can help your discernment ministry, great!
Mrs. Schlueter:
“Oh yes! Here’s a good one, real blasphemous. I can’t believe I found this one, wow. Sooooo blasphemous. A perfect fit for this article.”
I think searching for blasphemy and posting that blasphemy is being a conduit for…well…blasphemy.
It’s ok if Ingrid says something is blasphemous and then posts it, but when the president of Cedarville posted his book list and even said that he didn’t agree with some of the authors, she ignored that and assumed that he was promoting blasphemy.
What’s good for the goose should be good for the gander, but in Ingrid’s world, it’s not.
Typical Ingrid-esque reporting. She doesn’t bother to call on her own, she doesn’t bother to confirm with anyone, anything that was said by any party. Its almost like she got her job in radio by being related to the owner.
Love the video! Hilarious. I almost peed my pants when he walked across the water (and I made sure I wasn’t in a pool)!
Ingrid, I’m sure you’re a lot more loving than people give you credit for, but those comments don’t help you any.
I think Jesus would have thought it was funny.
I found the video to be sad and irreverant. Was it supposed to be funny?
You found it to be those things…
Curious, why? Why sad and irreverant?
> Never mind that Jesus hung out at parties with sinners and probably occasionally laughed or smiled.
RA: Yeah, I am not quite sure how you could be at a wedding, and be the one who makes some of the best wine in all of Galilee (out of water, no less), give it to the party, and not at some moment through it all have a smile on your face and chuckle a few times as everyone was having a joyful celebration!!!
Keith,
I’m not positive, but I believe that the video was a clip from a Will Farrell movie a few years back about a shallow news anchorman.
Not exactly sure why Ingrid dug it out, but…
Dearest Ingrid,
The stick you refuse to have surgically removed from your nether regions was intended as my blind grandmother’s walking stick, and since she can’t afford a new one, she’s falling in swimming pools and carrying on an illicit romance with the grandfather clock, which is embarrassing for all of us who have to deal with her on a daily basis.
Please remove it forthwith, and everyone will feel better.
Smoochies!
Ev
Joe C: “…Why sad and irreverant?” It’s this whole idea of making Jesus SO human that we forget that He is Holy God. The Creator. Alpha. Omega. The Beginning and The End. He is not your “homeboy.” He is The Christ, The Son of The Living God.
I have no doubt that Jesus had a sense of humor to some degree, but it’s also very obvious to me that He was very focused on His ministry while He was here on earth. He “had to go to Samaria…” He had only three years, and accomplished more in those three years than we will in a lifetime. He didn’t allow himself to be side-tracked with silliness, etc. He came to EARNESTLY seek and save the lost.
I read Isaiah’s response to being in the presence of God (Isa 6) and it stands in sharp contrast to the attitudes I see today. Jesus is just my “buddy, ” someone that comes in the morning while I’m shaving and we just have a good ol’ time chatting and yukin’ it up?! (according to Jesse Duplantis). Do you really believe that if Jesus Christ Himself appeared to Jesse Duplantis or anyone else for that matter…they’d KEEP ON SHAVING?!
“Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.” (Isa 6:5)
“And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, “HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND WHO IS AND WHO IS TO COME.” (Rev 4:8)
Not a lot of comedy when one encounters the True, Living God–not as far as I can see.
have you ever seen a duck-billed platypus close up?
Keith, you make some good points friend.
For the record…I don’t think Jesus is my ‘home boy’ in the sense you are thinking…
He is my Brother, my Friend, many other things and names, and above all my Master, Rabbi, Lord and God.
We’re in a personal one on one relationship, it’s very intimate, and yes, we do ‘yuck it up’.
He doesn’t ‘appear’ to me, so I don’t know what I’d do. Probably what everyone else in the Bible ever does when God appears; fall face down as a dead man and cry out. But that’s not the situation. The situation is He lives in me and is an intimate part of me, and we converse like it was the most natural thing in the universe. Because it is, and that’s how it is and was supposed to be, in case you’ve forgotten.
God walks with me, and I walk with God. I try to walk as He does, and He makes a path for me. He shepherds me, comforts me, teaches me, shares in my pain with me, and I share in His.
God is very much Holy, thrice Holy, and infinitely greater than I can comprehend, and I will not disagree there. But don’t ever forget that this very same holy, perfect, infitine God, resides in the hearts of His children, and where I go, He goes. He never leaves me. He never forsakes me. And He’ll always be with me.
In a situation that intimate, you’re telling me, you don’t laugh with God? You don’t ask Him questions as if you were a three year old child speaking to his father?
God is immesurably great, infinite, powerful; He is the beginning and the end. And yet, He lives in me and through me; a man who is infinitely less than God. He cares for us and knows every hair on our head. He is not the deity of Islam, who stands far off and aloof. He is not the impersonal force of Buddhism, impotent to change anything. He is the Risen God, Lord, Savior, Redeemer, and friend; who lives with me forever, walks with me, talks with me, teaches me, corrects me, directs me, and loves me.
Doesn’t get much more of an intimate, personal, and human experience than that, does it?
So large, so great, so infinite in power and glory, and yet…
So intimate.
Joe
Keith,
Is there room for God the father and Christ the brother in your theology?
“have you ever seen a duck-billed platypus close up?”
Yes, but it was before I was saved and I don’t like to talk about it.
Tim asked: “Is there room for God the father and Christ the brother in your theology?” Absolutely.
Joe C asked: “You don’t ask Him questions as if you were a three year old child speaking to his father?” Absolutely.
There’s a difference in an intimate relationship vs. a cavalier attitude the puts Jesus on the same level as me. He is not. That doesn’t make Him impersonal.
And just because someone uses different language than someone else to describe that intimacy doesn’t necessarily mean they are “cavalier”.
I always think that focusing on the transcendence of God rather than the immanence is a symptom of reading the New Testament through the Old rather than seeing the Old through the New. It seems to me that Jesus was God’s final word of who he is, so it’s hard to imagine that God wants us to approach Him in fear still. I actually think that much of that thinking is a carry-over from Greek paganism that crept into the Church over time.
It seems to me that when God comes to earth as a baby in a manger, He isn’t too worried about being disresespected – in fact he’s almost asking for it. That is why Paul says the Gospel is offensive to people. God just doesn’t seem to act very, um, God-like. He does a lot of stuff that seems very unbecoming for God to do.
Really? Because it doesn’t seem like it.
Just a different way of looking at things I guess, isn’t it Phil? (We are allowed to do that aren’t we?…unless, of course, I missed the meeting where that particular “rule” was rescended.)
Re: the rule rescinded.
Ha!
That’s funny.
Well, sure we all have our perspectives. I just think that we should be pretty careful about always making sure we’re presenting a picture of Jesus that’s Biblical. I just never see Jesus being anything like unapproachable or menacing.
I actually think it’s a very important point of the Gospel. The point of submitting to God isn’t that we do it out of fear as the pagans do. We do because we have a revelation of God’s nature. I truly believe that God wants people to submit to him out of love, not fear.
This unacceptable presentation of Jesus led me to Him. (Godspell, New York, Broadway) God’s hands are never tied, even when a less than Biblical methodology is used.
Phil, I agree that God wants our submission based on love, not fear.
And the Apostle John agrees, right?
Joe
I side with Ingrid on this one.
I’ve a pretty good (some would say warped) sense of humour myself, but I found this to be shockingly inappropriate.
Bad judgment call on Jim’s part.
I agree with Ingrid on this one also. I am sure jesus would
have said yes to Ron’s interview just so other people can pee on their pants!!! with laughter.
Show reverence to the King of Kings. If jesus himslef had an opportunity to “yuk it up” with you, I wonder what he would say. Maybe something like this, ” was that clip funny or what?”
” how did I do? “, do you think people will laugh at it??
On another note I am waiting on your response to Rob Bell and Little leaven.
Dang, I didn’t expect such deeply moving testimonies when I clicked on these comments (especially Joe C and Rick Frueh). Such interesting thoughts this morning, and all brought about by this video! Hmmm…
Oscar,
You’re late to the party -
1) The clip was offered by Ingrid as why the actor in the clip (which was from a movie he starred in, and was making fun of “Ron’s” shallowness as a news reporter, not Jesus) shouldn’t speak at a church. It’s like me telling you that you shouldn’t have spaghetti for lunch because 4-1 doesn’t equal green.
2) The gossipmongering from Little Leaven is covered in this article from last night.
chris L,
I am not replying to the Video. I am replying to looking at jesus as someone you can “yuk it up ” with.