Jesus healed the crippled. This guy crumples smart alecks.
Fire, brimstone, and roundhouse punches to the chest.
Today's sermon comes courtesy of Pastor Eric Dammann of Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey. It's a lesson for parents in how to deal with kids who aren't "takin' the Lord serious (sic)." Children like Ben, a kid Pastor Eric was guiding at a youth group in Calgary a while back. Ben's problem was that he liked to push Dammann's buttons. Even worse, he was "bright," which, according Dammann "didn't help things—made him more dangerous."
So Pastor Eric decided to show Ben the way of the Lord by way of the fist.
"So I walked over to him and went BAM! Punched him in the chest as hard as I could. I crumpled the kid. I just crumpled him. Then I leaned over and said, 'Ben, when are you going to stop playing games with God?' I led that man to the Lord right there,"
Either that, or Ben just screamed "Jesus Christ!" because he'd been decked by a youth group pastor.
The lesson of the sermon is that after Pastor Eric's bare-knuckle conversion, Ben was through playing games with the Lord. Or playing any games for that matter, due to, you know, the crumpling.
Even better for Ben: now that this video has been posted to YouTube, he might be able to find a lawyer and convert Pastor Eric's story into some bread.