I'm Slowly Figuring This Out

Relient K is playing a nightclub down here next week.

Traditionally, you would hype a key artist's show, but for a CCM station, a nightclub show can be dangerland.

Old way to handle it:

"Hey, Relient K is going to be in town at 'The Revolution' in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday.  You can win some free tickets by..."

And this would be followed by about a hundred calls of indignation.  "Dude -- what are you DOING?  That's a NIGHTCLUB!  You can't go THERE.  You are setting a horrible example for our children, etc., etc."

New way to handle it:

"Man, Jesus is my hero.  Like in that Zaccheus story.  I mean, he left the religous people muttering!  They were saying, 'Hey, you can't go hang out with him!  You can't go THERE.  You can't go in his house -- that's wrong!  You're setting a horrible example for our children, etc. etc.'  But right there, in public, he announced he was going where the good religious people said he couldn't go.  I love that Jesus did that, even though it left religious people muttering.

"And in unrelated news, Relient K is going to be at a nightclub called The Revolution this Tuesday.  You can win tickets by..."

Takes a little longer -- but  zero calls of complaint.

Comments

[RevJeff]

That's SOOOOO "secular" of them!

God will probably use it to HIS glory and shame us all.

[amy]

I was listening during those five minutes, and I thought your masterful moment of the Reliant K pitch was: "It's in a nightclub. So if you don't want to go to a nightclub, don't call to win tickets." Or something along those lines. But I liked the Zaccheus part too.
I was, however, disappointed that I heard no reference to Zaccheus being a "wee little man." And hey...many rockstars are indeed wee little men...huh! The parallels are endless.

[isaiah543]

Well done. I think I'll start calling you "The Mole."

[keith]

Derek Webb played in a little club in our town a couple o'weeks ago. They even had the bar open. What's more, Derek encouraged us to drink while clearly not condoning drunkenness. He later lamented the fact that his guitar amp made his own beer warm but was grateful that it was still, in essence, a beer. I sipped on my bottle of water. Everyone got along wonderfully.

[Monica Battaile]

I think what Brant is using is called a parable. How very pietistic of you. (I had to look this word up...)

[Seth Ward]

Isn't Derek a Christian?

Beer is the Devil's potion.

Especially Shiner Summer Stock. That is some reaaaaaaallllly fine, I mean, evil devils potion.

[mamasboy]

I'm kinda surprised you didn't get any calls of complaint. What's next, concerts at the local whorehouse? I thought Catholics were the only people deceived and aculturated enough to meet in bars. Now the Protestants are going to hell in a handbasket, too.
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MB