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The Best of Lutheran Laughs
Submitted by Rich Rodriguez from a sermon by
Greg Laurie
from Lutheran Laughs, August 2008
In reading the story of the birth of Christ, we tend to
forget that the virgin Mary was most likely a teenage girl, as was
portrayed in the 2006 movie The Nativity Story. In
the summer of 2008 pastor and evangelist Greg Laurie of the Harvest Crusades joked about this on his daily radio program A
New Beginning. As we all know, teenagers have their own way
of talking, with words like "you know", "I'm all", and "shut up" (at
least, those were the words used as of 2008). And Greg thought out loud
what Mary would have sounded like talking about the visitation by the
angel Gabriel fortelling our Lord's birth (Matthew 1:26-38) to her
teenage friends:
"So like, this angel dude appears to
me at my house, okay? And he's all, 'Dude! You're
like, so gonna have a baby, Mary!' And I'm all, 'No
way!' and he's all, 'Way!' And he's all
like, the Holy Spirit's gonna make me pregnant and I'll be the mother
of the Messiah dude and I'm gonna like, call his
name Jesus cuz he'll like, save his people from
their sins!
"And I'm all, 'Shut up!' And the
angel dude's all, 'You go, girl!' "
To the teens reading this page, particularly the girls,
don't kill me over this one 'cause like the angel dude Gabriel I'm
like, just the messenger, okay?
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