It was the prayer of Ricky Bobby! :laugh:
This prayer was obviously thick in colloquialism and cultural phenomena, employing metaphoric language that was sure to be understood by his audience, and unfortunately misunderstood by all Pharisees and some well meaning Christians watching from the outside.
So what you mean is that when a pastor gets invited to give the "invocation" he is to use God's Name to reflect metaphoric language sure to be understood by the audience, and if he doesn't, and he uses language that is in step with what God said about His Person and His Name, then he may not "connect" with the audience ?
Secondly, I don't know what God has to do with NASCAR, or tires, or Toyota sports cars, or any of those things he mentioned.
Not that I'm not happy that
at least here's an event that wants to invoke God's blessings where schools and public institutions are shutting Him out in a supposedly Christian country, but, hey, in as much as that opportunity exists, why not use the occasstion to raise God's Name high above instead of bringing God down to our level and use metaphoric, colloquialism reflecting culture ?
In seminary once, we had this pastor-student whom NOBODY calls to say prayers because he goes and thanks God for the air we breathe, the stars in the skies, the galaxies in the universe, the snake he thankfully did not step on while on his way to visit some members in that communist rebel infested area, the soothing sound of the brook by his church, the meals at the seminary, the cooks, the utensils, the plates, the tables, the breeze, the cooking oil, the fish, the rice, the water used to boil the rice, and so on. We all obviously understood what he was saying, but was it appropriate ?
At the start of the school year, we didn't know who he was, and so we asked him to say grace for the evening meal, and he went that rote. Well, thirty minutes later, he opened his eyes to an empty meal hall and a note on the wall that said: Brod, kindly close the windows before you leave !:laugh:
