This is the closing bit of one of Steve Harvey’s stand-up comedy routines a couple of years back. It’s undeniably powerful, but I can’t shake the feeling that it’s glory-riddled. I’m dying to know what the Mockingbird crowd has to say about it…
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6 comments
dpotter says:
May 18, 2009
wow…didn’t expect that…amazing
John Zahl says:
May 18, 2009
yeah, awesome!
StampDawg says:
May 19, 2009
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
StampDawg says:
May 19, 2009
No cross, no friend of sinners. But the Fellow as described does sound like he’d make one hell of a sensation when he walked down the red carpet for the Oscar gala.
dwcasey says:
May 19, 2009
I thought it was cool until he was done and the lights whens out then the spotlights went crazy like someone was actually going to come out. Not how I picture Christ being introduce…but, maybe that’s a bit like what John the Baptist did in his day when he announced Jesus?
Mike Burton says:
May 19, 2009
StampDawg and dwcasey,
I see what you fellas are saying. Stamper makes the great observation that the Messiah that was waited for would be, and is, unassuming at best.
And, I agree. But, what I see here is an expression of gratitude and praise from a man who, judging by his reaction at the end, has had a real encounter with the Compassionate Christ, and who has “Jesus in his mouth!”
I don’t see this as “glory-filled.” Rather, I see it as “fruit”, the fruit borne of forgiveness and acceptance, that flows from a grateful heart.