(ht to Scott Linn for the sign pic)
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Hopefully the clown is also a mime. That’s probably the best message possible there. Of course, I think all clowns and mimes (Red Skelton excepted) should be exiled to Siberia and left there.
Plea by Pat McGee — August 15, 2006 @ 12:44 am
What is Goss?
Plea by Pat McGee — August 15, 2006 @ 12:45 am
Do Advent Lutheran Churches worship only just before Christmas?
Plea by Pat McGee — August 15, 2006 @ 12:46 am
I believe those little papers that are nailed to the cross are an insult to God. They are sins people have written down and aniled to the cross. Don’t they know That was done nearly 2000 years ago?
Plea by Pat McGee — August 15, 2006 @ 12:49 am
At least they admit they are led by clowns. I can think of a few churches that are still in denial.
Pat, not an insult - nor are they claiming that they are doing it all over a new - it is just a reminder of the application of the cross
Plea by James The Gr8 — August 15, 2006 @ 5:11 am
Yeah, I don’t like this. There’s enough clowns in the church.
Plea by Grant — August 15, 2006 @ 5:43 am
Nothing adds theological, spiritual, and emotional weight and depth to the implications of Christ’s atoning work on the cross like…. a clown.
Plea by PaulB — August 15, 2006 @ 6:19 am
….can’t sleep…clown will eat me…can’t sleep…clown will eat me
Plea by Jenn — August 15, 2006 @ 7:16 am
well put PaulB.
Pat McGee: I think “Goss” might be the first part of “Gossip.”
Notice how Racism is the chief evil nailed to the cross. I’m sure erosion is on there too (perhaps out of view.)
Plea by mark — August 15, 2006 @ 7:23 am
female elders may not be biblical, but female clown elders are right out!
Plea by mark — August 15, 2006 @ 7:25 am
First off, that’s not a very happy-looking clown.
Second,a clown-led worship service. I’m betting this church is not that evangelical.
Third, if one picks a piece of paper from the cross, does that entitle them to exercise greed, racism and goss?
Clown: “Git yer goss right here! Come and git it - fresh racism and greed. While their hot, come and git ‘em.”
Plea by Bill Lamkin — August 15, 2006 @ 7:58 am
Barnum & Bailey used as an Ecumenical tool to usher in the
Laodicean age.
Maranatha!
Plea by Christopher — August 15, 2006 @ 8:04 am
Clown Him with Many Clowns!
Plea by theophilus — August 15, 2006 @ 8:06 am
Did I mention I appreciate my own church (Harvest Bible Chapel in Barrie) all the more?
Plea by Brandt — August 15, 2006 @ 8:38 am
You’ve gotta wonder what the altar call will be like. Confess me before men, and I’ll give you a pie in the face?
Plea by Jens — August 15, 2006 @ 8:49 am
I really don’t like clowns. I’m not convinced that anyone who isn’t a clown likes clowns. I haven’t met anyone who likes them, or is even neutral towards them. They’re just creepy.
Plea by Joe Mama — August 15, 2006 @ 9:37 am
I think I prefer corn-fed beef to clown-led anything!
Plea by Bill Lamkin — August 15, 2006 @ 10:09 am
Pat McGee: “What is Goss?”
It must be referring to Porter Goss, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Plea by Lee Shelton — August 15, 2006 @ 10:47 am
I think Grant said it correctly,
there’s already too many clowns leading the church
Plea by Jimmy Li — August 15, 2006 @ 11:49 am
I appreciate the chimp led worship which is going on after the clown service. At least there you know what they’re throwing at you is poop.
Plea by Micah — August 15, 2006 @ 11:52 am
Didn’t know the Lutherans were into that whole “Holy Laughter” thing. Anyway it can’t be a Lutheran church in Minnesota, cause everyone knows Scandinavians don’t laugh.
Plea by St. Lee — August 15, 2006 @ 1:04 pm
GOSS- an accronym for God Opposes Silly Sermons.
Plea by Emily — August 15, 2006 @ 1:35 pm
Pretty sly on the part of the Advent Lutheran Church. I mean, if they had just stated that Robert Tilton would be presenting the message, then no one would have showed up. At least this way, they’ll draw a crowd.
Plea by Emily — August 15, 2006 @ 1:37 pm
Funny…I don’t see idolatry nailed on that cross.
Strange fire, indeed.
Plea by MarieP — August 15, 2006 @ 1:40 pm
“You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who makes people happy, but inside he’s real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea.” - Jack Handy
Plea by Des — August 15, 2006 @ 1:54 pm
One minute later the congregation was shocked when the secret member of the Clue Clucks
Clowns set the cross on fire.
Sorry, I know it’s not a YSTC. I just couldn’t stop myself.
Plea by Darryl Smith — August 15, 2006 @ 3:26 pm
You may have stumbled upon the way all those priests gained the trust of those little kids.
Plea by C-train — August 15, 2006 @ 6:57 pm
Nice Jens!
What do you mean, Emily (Plea 23)? Robert Tilton IS a clown!
Plea by Grant — August 16, 2006 @ 9:55 am
Reminds me of that Stealers Wheel song from the ’70s:
“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right…”
Plea by Britt — August 16, 2006 @ 11:34 am
That was my point, Grant. Although not well made, obviously!
)
Plea by Emily — August 16, 2006 @ 12:28 pm
If you look closely, you will see that the photo of the church sign has been “photoshopped” … the “clown led” part was added, I believe. (this coming from a graphic artist) … note the much darker letters.
Plea by Lava Spire — August 16, 2006 @ 2:36 pm
This is so sad! Has it gone this far, really?
Plea by Diane — August 16, 2006 @ 2:42 pm
I dislike the roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the clowns. None of the New Testement writers advocated Clown Led Worship.
Plea by Brent — August 16, 2006 @ 2:52 pm
The pic of the clown served eucharist just leaves me speechless. There has been lost in our day a sense of the appropriate.
Plea by PaulB — August 16, 2006 @ 3:15 pm
Sorry Lava Spire… It’s totally real, sadly.
Plea by Marc — August 17, 2006 @ 10:22 am
I’m ELCA and this is scary. Clowns are taking over the church!
Plea by Rich — August 17, 2006 @ 11:01 am
Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle… it IS real. I stand corrected! I actually went to the web site and saw it in all it truth… sad! Wow.
Plea by Lava Spire — August 19, 2006 @ 7:32 am
This is what happens when you force the Greek word (hilarion) into an English cognate (Hilarious) and thereby impose the meaning of the English cognate upon the text: “the Lord loves an ‘hilarious’ giver.
Plea by Daniel — August 19, 2006 @ 3:20 pm
Lava Spire,
It ain’t photo shopped. Here’s their August calendar.
http://www.adventlutheran-suntree.com/activities-page.html
Ever since I saw the sign, I keep thinking of Luther at the Diet of Worms: multi-coloured afro, red nose, and 3 foot feet.
ub
Plea by Uncle Bill — August 19, 2006 @ 9:55 pm
I once saw “balooning” for the Lord at a Creative Arts Conference. .. ya know, sharing the gospel while you stretch out a big pink poodle right in front of the kiddos eyes. I thought I’d seen it all . . .
Surely this clown troop doesn’t plan on reenacting the Passion any time soon. Tell me it ain’t so! I would have to thrown up!
Plea by Angela — August 21, 2006 @ 1:27 pm
Theophilus: best comment! Bravo!
Seriously, I didn’t notice “irreverence”,
“worldliness”, or “sacrilege” nailed to that fake bloodless cross.
Didn’t know Jan Crouch and Tammy Faye Bakker were Lutheran.
Somehow, when I read that the disciples sang a hymn after their last supper, I just can’t hear a soundtrack with a slide-whistle and a bike horn.
Plea by SFBaptist — August 23, 2006 @ 10:12 am
That clown breaking the bread is really pathetic. The Church should weep rather than laugh at such stupidity. And I side with John Piper: there is so much sillyness in what passes today for evangelical church
Plea by Francisco — August 24, 2006 @ 12:56 am