World Premier of the Original Song "Get Out of the Pulpit" by Roxylee

January 22, 2009

Segment 1 - World Premier of the original song "Get Out of the Pulpit" by Roxylee

Segment 2 - Not all people who self-identify as Christians are saved.

Segment 3 - Gospel of Mark Chapter 2 Part 2

Segment 4 - Sermon by Scott Hodge on Leading in Times of Uncertainty

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[Brian]

Hey Chris Roadshow, great installment!

I could rattle on lot about this episode and the good, Christ-centered stuff in it but I'll settle for only commenting on Hodge's corporate workplace leadership skills seminar... I mean biblical sermon. Ughh. Now I feel I like I made the word 'sermon' all dirty. And of course, the adjective 'biblical' would be misleading.

Anyhoooo, as I listened to the good 'pastor' shamelessly prattle on about himself, his mission statement, his organizational goals, historic figures, and anything else so long as it wasn't Christ and Him crucified, something jumped out at me. Actually, many thingd did, but you nailed most of them already.

I noticed that I have heard very similar pep talks before, though not in a church, of course. I used to manage restaurants. A couple of times a year, they would haul us general managers out to some town, shuffle us into a hotel, and we'd have a schedule of events to attend, in conjunction with corpoarte staff and the company president. These were mostly goal-setting sessions, budget analysis, awards for accomplishments, etc.

However, we would always have an apparently famous speaker or two who were paid insanely good money to apparently motivate us to new heights in business management and leadership culture. At least, I think that's what the corporate folks envisioned. I'd never heard of the people.

These speakers would basically give a snooze-a-licious Power Point presentation loaded with all the really great catchy American business buzzwords, well salted with rapturous stories of amazing accomlishment by figures historic and not so historic. I think Hodge's 'sermon' missed the mark by being given in a church. He really should repackage that, add a few slides, and take that show on the corporate speaker circuit. It's obviously no good to anyone who needs to hear the Gospel but it might just help budding location managers catch a nap between team-building exercises.