<TITLE>13. Par 40-42</TITLE>L-40 Trouble of it is to the world, they're trying--the church is trying to give the world a big bunch of--of entertainment. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... on their grounds. We're not supposed to. What will we do? We just give them a great big pot of cooked up religious mulligan stew. That's all. Call it social parties, and little bunco games, and soup suppers to pay off the preacher. Nonsense. That's no way to run a church. God sent the Holy Ghost to run the church. Right. But we're trying to give the world... Why, you can't meet them people on that. They've already got that. They're genius in entertainments. They are genius, so we can't do nothing for them.
Let's give them something they haven't got. Hallelujah. The one thing they don't have is Jesus. Amen. Don't try to entertain with them; you're meeting them on their ground. Preach Christ, and let them come on this ground and find out what they got. If they want to stay in the garlic land, let them stay. We ain't to meet them there. We're not mimics, we're apostles. Hallelujah! We don't We're not apes, as they say we are. We're sons of God, created in His image. Nonsense to that bunch. Come away from it, there's a living Christ. Amen.

L-41 Oh, the one thing they don't have is Jesus. Oh, we--we can give them all... Oh, they got plenty psychology, philosophical religions and everything. Oh, oh, my. They--they're--they're loaded with that. But there's one thing they don't have is Jesus. That's right. Oh, they have entertainment; they can made a bigger basketball fuss than you can; sure they can. They can put men up on them movie screens out there that could out snow anything you can do. That's right. They're genius at it. Don't try to compare with them. Didn't Jesus say the children of the world, what they are. That's right. But there's one thing they don't have, is Jesus.
And that's what we're supposed to represent, to tell them. Not that we have a big gymnasium, we have the biggest Sunday school class, and--and we give this away, and we have suppers, and we have this for our church, and dances. If you'll come join our church, we have a dance every Wednesday night. Every Thursday night after the prayer meeting is over we have a little dance in the basement.

L-42 Here the other day when this... Did you see this picture from London, that come in on the screen, where that young idiot over there... A bunch of the--a Presbyterian church, put on a--a beatnik play of the resurrection--or the crucifixion. I've got it right here in the newspaper. And it just thrilled England all over. It was in our newspapers here. They had a boy dressed up with his candy stripe shirt on and jeans pulled down over his hips, and he was Jesus. They had another one, Judas, and he was playing a little guitar like this, walking up and down. Telecast national wide. "I'm going get Him tonight, honey; I'm going to sell Him." And all like that. And a girl rocking-and-rolling, saying, about Jesus, saying, "I love my mum, old chum, ain't that good enough, hon?" Like that. Walking around like that, playing in a religious church that stoops that low, she's gone. What did the people? They thought it was wonderful.


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