I can’t tell- is that parody or not? Was that actually on some Christian TV show or something?

“Zap”

found the “comedian” in the first clip to be rather lame…not very original.

Nothing gets stale faster than over-relevance.
Except pretentious over-relevance.

Ever watch reruns of that Sixties hit, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In? Very topical, very relevant — and aged very badly. But to their credit, Dan & Dick were just doing a topical comedy revue, not Something Of Cosmic Importance For The Ages.

Imagine if your church time-stopped amid the two-foot Afros, bellbottoms, love beads, peace-sign medallions, and Nehru jackets of that period. It’d be the First Church of Austin Powers preaching Shagadelic Cosmic Christian Mojo.

Then go from that brain-melting gedankenexperiment to the real-life churches time-stopped in the Godly Golden Age of the 1950s According to Ozzie & Harriet. Youth groups filled with narrow ties, crewcuts, poodle skirts of appropriate length, and a retention rate of zero.

Or those polygs on the news a couple months ago, their women dressed in 1950s TV Western versions of 19th Century Prairie dresses & hairdos like they just stepped out of Little House on the Prairie or a Christian Bonnet Romance cover.

Both Chesterton and Lewis had much to say on how tying the Gospel to current fashion means tying it to a point in time; when time keeps going into the future, that point will become the past. And if the Gospel is tied to that point in time, it will be Left Behind. (I believe Screwtape has much to say about current fashion as a tactic — Nya Ha Ha, My Dear Wormwood…)