Joe Bob's Guide to World Evangelism
Okay, all you guys who like to sit in football stadiums while somebody reads the Bible and then fat women in purple robes sing the Doxology and then you walk down to the fifty yard line and cry a little and "rededicate" your miserable self to the J-Man, I need you to listen up here for a minute.
It's not working.
I'm not buying it.
This is a toughie for Joe Bob "The Exegete" Briggs, though, cause we've got that pesky little scripture known to jungle-dwelling missionaries throughout the world as "The Great Commission." I speak, of course, of Mark 16, verse 15. If you will please read it, Don Pardo, por favor . . .
"And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."
This is the verse that accounts for your Billy Grahams. Of course, it wasn't that big a stretch for Billy, because he started out as a Fuller Brush salesman. He was ready to sell something.
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Joe Bob Harmonizes the Gospels
Illustration by David Pugliese
I'm tired of people bitchin' all the time about how the gospels don't make sense because Mark says something different from Matthew who says something different from Luke, and then John goes off on a whole crazy tangent. How long we been doing this, people? Three hundred years?
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11.08.2007 | Comments(49)