Posted on 08/22/2023 2:41:59 AM PDT by Morgana
Faith Church is a non-denominational ‘word of faith’ church in St. Louis, MO. Led by pastor and pastrix duo David and Nicole Crank, the 7000-member multisite is your typical “You’re-David-and-here-are seven-life-tips-to-help-you-kill-your-Goliath-of-debt” kind of church.
Crank has a long and sordid history of being unable to preach himself out of a paper bag if his life depended on it, with a lobotomized monkey with a pen taped to its hand frequently giving him a run for his money over who can write a more coherent sermon with less scripture twisting.
Because the name of the name is to entertain, during Faith Church’s September 13, 2020 sermon, Do you feel like a Roller Coaster, the Crank’s crew built a roller coaster on stage and got the worship band to croon out the Ohio Players/ Red Hot Chili Pepper’s song ‘Love Rollercoaster” while 3-foot sparklers went off.
All to the gory of God we’re sure.
Later, Crank himself would emerge riding the coaster and preaching multiple other roller coaster metaphors, about how you can’t be afraid to ride the ride of life without sticking your hands in the air, and if you’re going to ride the roller coaster of love, you can’t take your baggage with you because otherwise, you’ll lose it.
When the bible isn’t enough, nothing else is ever enough.
I want to ride (baby ride)
Your love is like a rollercoaster baby, baby
Learning to ride (awawaw)
sorry everyone I thought of that song while posting this.
Metaphors do work. Jesus used them.
“Megachurch builds roller coaster on stage for sermon series, riding it while the worship band plays Red Hot Chilli Peppers song “Love Rollercoaster.”
Wha??? Red Hot Chili Peppers? I seem to recall a tiny band called CHIC having a tiny hit with the same name.
Roller coasters are apparently even too expensive for mega churches. That wasn’t even kids’ carnival level stuff.
It was a band called “The Ohio Players”
I remember the Ohio Players but not Chic. Wouldnt mind hearing their version.
Sorry, you’re right! Thanks for correction.
It was OPlayers, sorry.
Actually, it was the Ohio Players who recorded it first.
This White Man knows his Funk
I looked it up and saw the famous album cover but somewhere in the search page I saw “CHIC” and got confused.
That’s OK. You’re forgiven for your cultural appropriation.
I’m from Motown so it’s in my blood.
Lol. I just thought it was funny that the article’s video blurb assumed a reference to the Red Hot Chili Peppers COVER version of that song, while the black pastor was boogie-ing to it.
Pastrix?
I didn’t see the photo and didn’t realize the pastor was black. That is pretty funny.
I’ve only heard enough of the Red Hot Chili Peppers to know I’m not a fan, so I’ve never heard their version.
I really enjoy 70’s soul, R&B and Funk but Love Rollercoaster is nowhere near the top of my list.
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“pastrix duo David and Nicole Crank”
More Bunyan-ian allegory come to life.
Where you been? I’ve had a lot of these lately! A lot of craaaazzzy ones too.
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