I loathe the 700 Club. I’ve watched a few times and…well, you can probably guess a few reasons I don’t like it. But tonight they had Steve McGranahan, the “World’s Strongest Redneck,” on. He’s basically a big guy who bends stuff. But instead of bending to be bending or to show off, he does object lessons. It was actually a pretty good bit. He makes some clever connections, and cracks some groaner redneck jokes (”Why don’t rednecks make good terrorists? We hate to waste a good roll of duct tape.”), and it works.
At first I thought it was embarrassing to evangelicals, playing into stereotypes - and it may be. But he said something during his performance that made me stop thinking about it:
One day we’re gonna be standing before the Lord, and he’s gonna ask you, “What’d you do with your gifts?”
He may not be a genius, and he may not have any sleeves, but he’s using what he has to glorify Jesus. What more can we ask? This is sort of an interesting contrast with yesterday’s post about Conteporary Christian Music. Is this the second side of the coin?
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