“And let your Youth Pastors also be the husband of one hot wife, let him also have a trendy haircut, may he find ‘Christian’ knock-offs of fads and foist them on teens, and may he be immature enough to relate to them…”
» S.D. Smith
Here’s the link for those on Facebook (click here to see the video)…you gots to see this.
I love satire. This is brilliant. I don’t know who did it and I can’t remember where I found it.
Note: I know all Youth “Pastors” are not as tragicomically off-base as this post stereotypes. I know people who work with youth who are making a great effort to not do things in as counter-productive a way as seems to be sort of normative in many churches.
August 27th, 2009 at 6:13 am
I realize this is thoroughly not on the subject of youth pastor glam, but it is spot on with satire, and of a kind I’ve never seen before.
This truly made me laugh out loud many times- http://fakecarson.blogspot.com/
August 27th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Track one: Chris Tomlin / Track two: Chris Tomlin / Track three: Hillsong United / Track four … Chris Tomlin!
Gold, sir. Pure gold.
August 27th, 2009 at 11:01 am
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August 27th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
As a former immature but surprisingly totally hip Youth Minister, I approve of this message.
August 27th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
I somehow stumbled on this place recently:
http://kitschian.wordpress.com/
I guess this is a friend?
August 27th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Whomever did this deserves a ziploc bag of gold.
Yeah, JB, that’s my cousin. He’s weird. And rad.
August 31st, 2009 at 10:00 am
Smiling from ear to ear. Nice work whoever did this.
September 3rd, 2009 at 8:06 am
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.