Troy Conrad's Comedy Jesus Show
In what's becoming an all-too-common scenario these days, a formerly
professing Christian has publicly turned his back on his former
beliefs.
But this time, Troy Conrad, a former Bible salesman trained by Thomas
Nelson Inc, has found a way to market his insider knowledge of
contemporary church life. He has created a comedy routine called The
Comedy Jesus Show, where he pokes fun at what he calls the "hijacking"
of spirituality through the lampooning of religious hypocrites.
It's not surprising that a version of Jesus is being mocked. The sad
part is that what Troy ridicules isn't Christianity at all. His comedy
routine attacks religious hypocrisy, and a vision of Jesus that has
been distilled from the moralistic preaching of the 19th and 20th
centuries masquerading as the Gospel. From the heretical teachings of
Charles Finney (the grandfather of much evangelistic manipulation) to
the stage antics of Billy Sunday and the modern-day greed of
"prosperity" preachers, the Gospel has too often gone unpreached while
human agendas have hijacked the faith once for all delivered to the
saints.
Troy believed in the wrong "Jesus" under the influence of those who
profess to be followers of Christ. He saw through the nonsense that
many evangelicals choose to overlook. In the end, that was all the
excuse he needed to reject the Gospel. It's debatable whether he ever
knew the real Jesus. I hope he meets the Savior on favorable terms
when his self-sufficient mockery fails him.
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