John Piper Gets Laughed at by 8000 Christian Counselors
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- In 2009 John Piper preached a sermon to the "American Association of Christian Counselors". In this famous clip, he's met with repeated laughter while being completely serious in his talk.
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i have never seen a more confusing circumstance of miscommunication in my life.
Tell em Kowski
I am really bad at reading and giving social ques. This feels like my everyday life. When I say something ironic everyone gets confused. When I insult people they think it is ironic.
@@notbindi Don't worry it is not problematic for me to talk about.
What it is for me personally, is that I miss cues when I don't actively think about them. I am always kind of stressed because of that in social situations. I personally don't really convey emotions through non verbal signals I would say, except for when I am angry or talking to someone I know really well (basically just my close family). How bad I am at understanding how other people feel also depends on how well I know them. I can understand when my sister feels something and I also get some of her irony but with people that I don't know it is a lot harder.
So when I was in school I normally didn't have one on one conversations but I tried to go up to small groups of my friends and just say something if I have to add something to the topic. The only problem about this is that I am always really afraid to go up to people. Even with my friends, if I haven't seen them for a few days, I am hesitant to go to them because I don't really know if they want to talk to me (because I basically also don't know what people think of me)
I got better with age having conversations tho (for example as a kid I took it literally when someone asked me how I am, and now I just know that it just something you say as a greeting) which made it easier to be social,
On the other hand now that I have recently moved out, I get into way harder conversations with total strangers and I can't hide behind my parents anymore and let them do the talking.
My social behavior is not all because I can't read emotions, it is a Kombination of some things that all come with my autism. I just can't separate the reasons why I do things so I guess that is just like a summary of my behavior.
But actually you wouldn't notice it on first glance if I wanted to hide it. I can make good conversations, but it takes a lot of focus and stresses me out.
What about trump giving a press conference at a lawn care place across the street from a dildo shop?
@@notbindi No problem. What helps me most when talking to other people is when you say EVERYTHING that you want me to know. Because then I can't miss some hint or emotion and it makes everything so much easier.
"I don't know why you're laughing, I'm talking about me"
This needs more likes 😂😂😂
yea gotta say, thatd been the ultimate paul washer punch line, missed opportunity john!!
If anyone likes this ill kill yhem
Brooooo 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂genius line
"This is a serious talk"
Crowd: hahahaha
Yeah what on earth??? Bizarre...
I’m feeling a bit unnerved with the response of these “ Christian “ counselors! It seems like Piper was being sincere but didn’t know how to move forward and he stumbled a bit! Wow....
Don't look into it too deeply. It seemed to me like intentional self-deprecating humor. The timing in his words seems intentional. I use self deprecating humor on myself all the time.
I don't think anyone laughing had malice in their hearts.
Apparently this pastor was given a comedian’s time slot so the audience thought that he was a comedian.
I think his time slot got switched with a comedian’s so they think he’s a stand up comedian
It doesn’t help that he looks like he’s constantly trying to hold in his laughter
his delivery and timing was also really good
those are tears 😭
He legit talks like an experienced standup comedian.
When I watched it I thought he was making a joke. I wish I had that comedic timing. Also, I think when your in a big room with other people the smallest bit of laughter can start a chain reaction. Kind of like the laugh track effect.
@@invadercivic2774 Yes. I watched this frustrated with their laughter, but occasionally laughing myself.
So does this mean everyone thought the comedian was the serious sermon and didn't laugh?
I haven't found any evidence to suggest that there was a comedian at all. That Tiktok/IG caption appears to be fabrication. It was a really weird moment, though.
He took da comedian's time slot. And probably got more laughs.
😂😂😂😊
his dry humor game is on point and he don’t even know it 💀
Doesn't*
Didn’t*
@@luisverdin1780 the comment used “is”, so the correct word would be “doesn’t” in order to keep the same tense, but the way they said it is completely fine in an informal way. Who cares how they phrase their sentence?
@@citrusn for real..often times people rush type and don’t want to spend so much time checking for proper grammar and spelling which is something that many people do, including those making the unnecessary corrections here as if we were in English class
@@citrusn Homie chill, we know how to spell, we were just joking. I was gonna correct is to was too but it’s just a joke 🙄
“The fear of looking foolish” as they sit here and laugh at his vulnerability. This breaks my heart 🥺
Mine too
Me too.
You know it's a sin to live in fear right?
lil chris tuten i- so you mean to tell me you’re never allowed to be afraid? Also who ever said we are to be 100% without sin. Granted we must repent and turn from as much sin( but we all fear looking foolish in some sense I think.) so i guess really my question is like what is your motive behind that comment?
@@faithmarie3808
I should have said that living in condemnation is a sin, because that is what he is speaking in this video.
You know all that stuff he was saying, the audience was giving him the exact response that he should have.
Whenever satan or his own flesh tries to come against him and tries to fill him with doubt or fear or guilt, he should laugh at them and preach Romans 8:1.
He opened with a joke and reeled em in...
this entire speech could totally pass as dry humor
To be fair his comedic timing was on point
Case in point from 3:58 onwards. If I didn't know any better, I'd think he was already prepared to wait for a beat there just for the laughter.
The bit where he was telling the audience not to laugh could have been plucked straight out of a Stewart Lee bit, it was fantastic
He seriously could be a comedian. Like Johnny Carson or Bob Newhart or something.
Finley Zero hi
What he was saying nobody else needs to know anyway and thats why the audience is laughing. And he may or may not like being laughed at, but the more he says, the more they laugh, because they truthfully do not know if hes serious or not. So there's really no other way of looking at this. Nobody and I mean Nobody tells the world his shortcomings.
I respect him for being well anchored enough to be so vulnerable about himself.
This must have been very sad for him.
I thought my life was a tragedy but then I realized it's a comedy
Perfect analysis lol
Joker
@@malakosli thanks captain obvious.
@@xsct878 your welcome pal
I see what you did there. In the end, it could be a tragedy.
Ironic considering that he was praising the audience for their perceptiveness.
for their "perceptiveness" as he was expecting it lol clearly it was inaccurately attributed.
He was buttering up the counselors.
they probably thought it was flattery and laughed
Me when I'm confessing my feelings to my crush
oh man. one time this girl told me she was in love with me and I laughed for five minutes straight... I felt terrible
@@stabbi420 Dude...I mean I can understand you were nervous but I hope you apologized and all was good after that 😂
Abbi anddd you’re a girl? I don’t know, but your name, apparently, is “abbi.” And I mean, just to warn you, but it says in 1 Corinthians 6:9 that homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God. i don’t know anything about you, I’m only mentioning this truth just in case!
@@Izzy-rw7ty that a girl is in love with her doesnt mean that she is gay herself.
At 63?
The actual comedian, I imagine, had a tough act to follow!
I know Piper. He really was surprised by the laughter. But his comedic timing is so good, when he saw he was getting laughs, he went along with it. But he really did write that opening part as a serious Piperesque exercise in humility.
That’s just not what happened at all. You should listen to the Ask Pastor John podcast episode on this. He was baffled the entire time and had no idea what was going on
I agree.. The Holy Spirit should of led everyone to understand
@@firestrike123 what’s the episode called? I’m a big fan of his podcast and never heard that one before
I must say, the last three or four times they laughed was just baffling. I can sortve see some of the others, but who would laugh those times. I know I never would have laughed by then because it was extremely clear. What the heck? Very strange. Im a bit angry on his behalf.
Ya,he was humbling himself and trying to be “cool with it,” but they kept laughing even after he hinted that it was hurting his feelings.. Not cool.
Kind of shows you that people will do things as long as they think they're supposed to do that without understanding the situation.
Lol
They were primed for a comedy show, so this became a comedy show.
if that were true no comedian would ever bomb. in reality hes a good witty writer and it made people who were expecting to laugh. eventually though you can see he starts to play into it. what a legend
@@YEEEEEEA this wasn't a club with drunk people
@@YEEEEEEA I'm an actual comedian, you don't know what you're talking about.
You think he was playing into it when he said "what a weird crowd, I didn't expect any laughter" a minute from the end?
This is the most humblest and most vulnerable preacher I ever heard...the more I study and learn from this man John Piper, the more I love him...❣❣❣
Just don’t ask him how to deal with an abusive marriage. He will really disappoint you.
It’s unfortunate that he preaches the false gospel of Calvinism.
@@jtcharland
Give us the pure definition of the Gospel
i feel so bad for him but honestly... it is in fact pretty funny
This is sad.... What on earth.... This man is being open and very honest in his speech and I applaud him
I listened to an interview ten years after this event with Pastor John and he was asked about this. I had hoped the organizers would have explained or apologized. Sadly, no. Ten years later he doesn't know why they laughed at him.
context: th-cam.com/video/NrqvHi6VuSc/w-d-xo.html
@@tinyrodent2821 thanks man that’s was helpful
Thats called self deprecating humor, that im a sinner line was funny, and when he said hes not used to a laughing crowd thats funny too hahaha
I sat with tears in my eyes at the beauty of his genuine honesty. That one would be laughing rather than with tears in their eyes.
you can't but love a humble intellectual.
Have so much love for this man . Truly a man of God
Yes.
In the audience's defences, his speech did come across as deadpan humor when taken out of context
And adding context doesn’t really change much either...
That's exactly how I took it, "humor". Most of these comments had to be made at the title of the video and not actually watching it.
@@josephbolognone6014 I don't agree, Joseph. Looking at the title I assumed it was clickbait and Piper was being genuinely humorous, but watching the video changed my mind. There's no doubt by the end that he was pleading with them to take seriously the convictions that "make him cry," and the audience isn't getting it.
how much more context do they need? One of the most renowned serious speakers on the planet came to speak at their conference.
@@BooRadleyTube I feel like a lot of that comes from modern day churches. The pastor often starts off the sermon with like a joke, and then gets into a story about his life that eventually ties into a sermon (not always bad, but it is bad if that happens every single Sunday). It happens so often that that's what people are expecting when someone goes up to preach, but that's just a modern idea that's setup to keep the audience intact. If you look at the sermon on the mount, Jesus didn't start with some joke. Assuming the sermon is a word-for-word transcription. Even if it was just the general idea, Jesus jumped right into the deep end of the topics at hand, not some humorous story to get the audience laughing.
Anyway, that's my two cents.
Even I’m cracking up just watching it. He’s poring his heart out and doesn’t even realize how it could be funny. My heart goes out to him. ❤
Good to hear someone who experiences a thought life very much like my own. Thanks for trusting God enough to let us see behind the curtain. God is good.
This level of authenticity and candor 💯
Excellent, honest, timely humor. Much appreciated.
It kind of works as self-deprecating humor.
Absolutely. But, I'd be willing to bet that John Piper was also thinking that he would be getting a free counseling session out of this.
@@richardcoords1610 Sounds lijke he could certainly use one
Jeandeaux you clearly do not know what it is like to be truly depraved and then radically saved by a holy God.
@@dylantodd6009 John Piper had to go through christian counselling marriage for him and his wife, and one of his sons left the faith.
I think Jeandeaux comments is too real and close to home to be honest.
Jason Biggs oh. I see. Totally was misinformed I reckon. God Bless
That fact that they continually thought he was a comedian shows how terrible actual christian comedy is
well i think the people were just being nice to what they thought was probably a bad comedian and laughing for the sake of politeness
Nah this was actually funny and could have worked as a deadpan set.
@@fayeinoue7455 anime profile picture, fuck off
Faye Inoue *tips fedora*
@Tarun Singaria but mine is funnier ,😡 lol
This man speaks my heart.
He searches our guts and knows who we truly are. It makes my heart glad he knows me so well
He is so puzzled that the people in the audience are laughing during his speech.
it kind of breaks my heart.
@Carlos Spiceywhiener you don't notice him saying "gotta stop laughing like that" and bunch of other times that he acknowledged them laughing?
lmao what's wrong with you they were obviously laughing
@Carlos Spiceywhiener it was funny to me tho, I was laughing and if I thought he was a comedian I would've thought he was doing a good job
@Carlos Spiceywhiener how is it their fault if they thought he was trying to be funny, it would've been respectful to laugh in that case wouldn't it?
Imagine being this guy
Odd that he started off his sermon with feeling that his audience's perception of "reading" him was above average because they were Christian counselors and soon discovered their perception was very below that of typical audiences. There is something to learn here...
Great observation.
Yes, seemed he was more bummed at their lack of perception than his lack of transparency.
May the Lord be with you. May He put in your heart to seek Him in truth.
Recommend you to watch "The greatest lie since the garden of Eden" on joggler66 channel and "The Two Houses of Israel" and "Lazarus and the Rich Man" on Karl Tester. The time to awake the slumbering virgins has come.
May the Lord remove the scales from the eyes of all who seeks Him in faith, but by truth.
I legitimately thought this was fake, that a laugh track was added until he mentioned the laughing towards the end. I’m in disbelief, the moment was completely lost on them.
I literally thought this was edited afterward to add laughing!
context: th-cam.com/video/NrqvHi6VuSc/w-d-xo.html
I know! It seemed so fake
This is so telling. People laugh because they are expected to laugh. I've noticed this so many times.
Just for a bit of context, his turn was switched with a comedian last second, so the audience doesnt know that he is actually a sermon and the things he said are funny like “i m a sinner” and “i want expecting laughter” 😂😂
He's a famous pastor so that's unlikely.
@@jvm-tv unlikely, but that’s actually what happened
@@sillythygoose except he, John Piper, and many others have gone on record saying it's not true and that the speaker before him was serious and he was the "keynote speaker" meaning people know who he is and we more than likely there to see him partly
@@sillythygoose it isn't though
People keep saying that he was switched with a comedian. I don’t know if this is true or not but that’s like someone ordering a cheeseburger and instead getting a dead fish in a bun and they gobble it up like it’s delicious. If someone is that clueless then they have a problem. Here we have an entire audience of people (supposedly intelligent people) who think this is hilarious.
Love this man!
In this short segment, I felt his struggles to be so much like mine, and reduced my own sense of guilt and failures.
I still highly respect and honour this man, even when he appears awkward at times, to me he's very real. As a song reminded me, 'We're only human after all' . Sent from Darlington England. 🙂
The crowd is the awkward ones...John is one of the greatest preachers EVER.
@@repentstaythecourse5935 I agree.
@@repentstaythecourse5935There is no great preachers, only one great God
Man, I can't stop watching this. Amazing.
Does anybody have the link for the comedian? I wanna see that crowd
It’s on TikTok
@@horizonfan where
This the username on TikTok who has the comedians reaction and it’s twice as funny and awkward
TikTok @ gsgsgshashahah66
@@horizonfan lier
It's refreshing to see honesty. They are giddy.
Watching for the first time. So perplexed myself at the response of laughter. My God bless you Pastor John. In the name of Jesus Christ may your openess of your self doubts be a trumpet blasting of our own self doubts as we continue to be used by God in His plan for us.
apparently, what happened was that his time-slot was switched last-minute with that of a comedian, so everyone laughing thinks they're watching stand-up comedy by a guy who has a very odd and deadpan sense of humor
I believe it was the way he delivered the talk while occasionally smiling,that gave the counsellors permission to laugh.
God bless you Mr. Piper, humble servant of the Most High God!!🙏🏽✝️
A man that can humble himself like this is the real deal.
Thank you!
This was damn strange, someone was willy nilly hitting the laugh track button! 😅🤣😂
Yea. Sounds so much like a laugh box
peep his sermons
Reminds me of a twilight zone episode - when a comedian was crying and begging the audience to stop laughing at him in his routine. Every time he did that, they guffawed harder. This is exactly the same...
That's is what girls watch man!... guys Don't watch that
@@MRakshay-fb2mu what.
I feel his sincerity... God bless Pastor John Piper 🙏
God bless this man. It is recorded in more than one way.
It’s interesting that I listen to John in this situation and all I can think about is how these are things that I struggle with at 28 years old. a guy like John piper confesses and talks about these things in the open to so many people and it encourages me and blesses me and I feel humbled and broken. I Want change in my life and the need to see Christ as king and all these people can do is laugh?
This is very sad, he’s being honest with them, admitting sin etc... and they continue to laugh at him
Piper is a man of God who deserves respect and a listening ear and a closed mouth from the audience!!!
I'm anon Christian and I agree
Very sad to watch.
Possibly one of the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
I heard him tell the story about when this happened but I had never seen the clip of it. Thanks for posting.
This is tremendous, Piper shows he understands the psychology of counseling and the psychology of the fallen human species. It was a very clever and insightful talk while being transparent about being the chief of sinners. I love it.
I totally relate to him. There is a big part of comedy that is self-depracatingly open and honest. I find myself being laughed at unexpectedly quite frequently.
He reminds me of me. When I realised that I was crucified with Christ it changed my life dramatically. That was 1988 14 years after I had become a Christian and the last 32 years have been a process each day to deny myself that Christ may live. As he says it's no laughing matter because it's a serious problem to come to terms with all those things in us he has mentioned. I wanted to run away and hide but then how how would I ever grow in Christ. Now all that I am has been exposed but in turn by the grace of my Beloved Father I am being reconstituted to be as Christ because now it's he who lives as I die each day.
I have so much love for JP!
hands down my favorite video of him
it sounds like a laugh track ... like it's hard to even believe they're laughing.
I appreciate his humility. I don't think he was intentionally trying to humor the audience.
Not at all. The agenda listed his time slot as a comedy routine by mistake. It’s sad to me that these people can’t discern the difference from comedy and what he is saying.
@@PJErvin That is the irony, he was praising them for their discernment and perceptiveness, yet they weren't discerning that he wasn't joking. He was being vulnerable.
Love this man and love this crowd. Simple and harmless misunderstanding. The crowd is not laughing at him at all but with true joy. His is a righteous seriousness, and theirs is an equally respectful and honorable laughter, simply a rapidly flowing stream which briefly flowed into two parallel tracks
You are so right. I was confused for the first couple minutes because I thought he was doing deadpan humor but then realized he wasn't. I felt sorry for him since he was actually confused at the response.
I was not a huge fan of Piper for no real reason but as I see more of him and read his books, I can feel his deep love for God and his genuine desire for others to feel the same.
I appreciated this honesty from a man I rarely see in that light. If leaders were all more open with their weaknesses, how much healthier would the church be? It's how you can be a genuine servant, and also how to not become a pharisee.
LOL! He's so precious, ya gotta love him.
To have the spirit to keep on preaching even though people still laughed..that's just wow..
I love this man. Thank you Father!
I love this man.
Needed a Paul Washer moment.
Or a good ole “what’s wrong with you people?!”
Don’t know why you’re laughing, I’m talking about You.
@@Aletheia828 so true hahahhaha, I was thinking the same thing
😂😂😂 Trust me. You do not want that.
More like Paul walker moment 😂
Oh my Jesus. What a prophetic situation!
The Christian opens his heart about his struggles in God.
The Counselors are so estranged from struggling with God they literally think he is joking.
Father, bless your dearly beloved John Piper. In Jesus name. Amen.
I just got back from the AACC conference this year.
Funny that this popped up in the algorithm.
there are a lot of different takes why the audience laughed.
And I think each person may have laughed for their own and multiple reasons.
Yes, we are exhausted, it is A LOT to take in. I don't doubt people were loopy and sleep-deprived and burnt out.
And sometimes there are comedians and funny speakers in the line-up.
My take is that at the start his facial expressions are incongruent.
He starts the first 40 seconds self-deprecating humorously but switches to serious with a bit of a frown but continues to self-deprecate and half smile.
Another reaction , and this is mine, is that many know John Piper and the worm theology and self-flagellating feel of his messages and the laughter is a way of saying Bro, you don't have to crucify yourself and take yourself so seriously.
Lighten up, laugh a little.
Give yourself some grace and rest in God's forgiveness.
At worst it came across as manipulative and insincere.
For him this may be a very vulnerable moment and uncharted territory in his circles but for counselors, we hear this every day all day.
2:02 - 2:26 was genuinely sad. His worst fears were realized.
Honestly, they love him so much.
They can’t tell he is serious? He tries to tell them and they keep laughing
th-cam.com/video/NrqvHi6VuSc/w-d-xo.html
Comedians often sound very serious
God bless, Jesus loves you and died for you all
When he pointed out what a strange audience they were because they were laughing at absolutely everything and then said:
"...and I'm continually perplexed..."
that's the first moment I absolutely joined them and began with a burst of LOL cry laughter.
He's so sincere
John Piper...my best preacher...a man of God.
This saddens me so much. What an honest, humble man of God.
The crowd thought he was a comedian that's why lol
So, I played this clip for my wife, who is a professional therapist and counselor. She doesn’t understand all the fuss. I was immediately shocked at how poorly the crowd was treating John, but she said she thought he was kind of funny and his dry sense of humor was just a part of his schtick. I explained to her that John is one of the most humble/meek speakers out there and I have rarely heard him crack anything near to a joke… To which she responded, Well if he wasn’t trying to be funny he should not have led with a joke. At that point I just stopped talking.
Those were deep examination of the heart that he was pouring out there. He was showing futility of man and how the best of us can still have to struggle with weakness. I was touched by his remarks...I am sure John Piper is an INFJ.
I would NOT want to be her patient tbh.
"I feel I have serious chronic depression, no one even cares about me anymore.."
"AHAHAHAHA"
@@Womenswell022 seems typically infj
I'm a psych nurse and a Christian. I thought this clip was hilarious! We hear this kind of stuff every day. It's almost like a parody.
Seems like listening to people's problems just desensitises these professionals.
Profound. Wonderful that he was willing to be vulnerable. Good lesson for the counselors for working with pastors. Because we tend to think they "shouldn't" need help. But, remember, all of God's servants had at least one person they could talk to at a deeper level.
Blessed are you who are mocked for righteousness sake!
Well done John you are blessed!
What happened is that there was an agenda mixup, and his slot was listed as a stand up comedy routine. So they thought he was the comedian and that this was a comedy routine, not a sermon, thus they were already primed to laugh.
We got it pal, no need to spam it everywhere over and over.
Some people might not have
You've commented this a bunch of times on this video, but I doubt you have proof that this is the case. There is no evidence that there was supposed to be a comedy routine in his place. John Piper is a well known theologian who has 1 million followers on twitter and his own extensive wikipedia page. I'd bet almost every Christian counsellor in that room knew exactly who he was. It'd be like going to an NBA conference and not knowing who Damian Lillard is. Of course that'd be ridiculous to suggest. For more information, put what follows after the reddit website address: /r/videos/comments/cnv5hk/a_pastor_was_slated_to_speak_at_a_conference_for/ewg4ipy/
Alan Lopez R. I replied to a few people so they would know, but now all of a sudden I’m getting a bunch of likes and comments on it. I think TH-cam must’ve recommended it to a bunch of people, because this comment has like 155 likes when it used to be at like 2 lol
@@johna4387 It looks like you value spreading misinformation so long as it garners you useless youtube likes. Otherwise you would've deleted your comments by now. Enjoy your internet points.
His time slot got switched with a comedians lmao.
Not true..
@@MushkinGB it has been confirmed numerous times.
@@casskayecars Where? I saw the same instagram post, and came here for the full video like you, but even in interviews with Piper from as recently as 2019, he seems to have no idea why he got that reaction. And a deep dive on Google isn't turning up anything about a comedian.
Although I don't share in John Piper's calvinistic views, I consider him a beloved brother in Christ! I have learnt so much from this humble servant of God and this video is saddening.
Best stand up I've seen in years. I'm not even joking.
He was being serious
@@bean7496 I couldn't believe he was until he sounded offended towards the end. But he seriously sounded like he was joking. I think that's what the audience thought too.
Still struggling with the insecurities of his inner teenager. That hit deep. I should probably deal with that...
Holy cow. He led with humility and was probably so humbled to be there and the crowd was so not on his level. Totally missing everything.
I know hey, it's like they're in an alternate universe or something.
It's bc there was a comedian who came on before him and they didn't realize he wasnt also a comedian
buixrule yep
yep
They moved Piper’s time slot to the one that was scheduled for a comedian.
I watch this at least 3 times a year
well he was totally serious yet also astute enough to aim that at himself ..wonderful wit
This is the funniest shit I've seen in a while. The schedule mixup where the crowd thinks he's a comedian, how his delivery and pauses could be interpreted as some ironic comedic act, the rising confusion he gets from getting laughter after each thing he reveals about himself, the slow and dry buildup to the 'punchlines', and every time he doubles down on being serious, the crowd equally reflects it with more laughter. What a gem.
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@@lai_strength_training FUCK
It’s sad they laughed as he poured his heart out. People these days.
Lmao who gives a fuck
It was a misunderstanding. A comedian was scheduled to be up during this time slot but it got switched around, and the audience was primed to laugh at what the speaker at the time would be saying. No one knew what was going on until it was too late and he’d already given his sermon
I know you mean well, but it’s sad how people are so quick to judge without getting the full context of a story.
This pastor had his time slot switched last minute with a comedian so the audience thought he was a comedian doing a dead-pan routine.
Pastor John , you are precious
That was just too good - really complex situation, and very funny
Him: “A man who struggles with the same, uh, 15 year old...”
Crowd: Oh no
Him: ... adolescent...
Crowd: Oh no
Him: fears at 63.
Crowd: Phew
Lmao
@@craigmichael3638 shut the fuck up you dumb bitch. there is no god, especially a christian one.
@@BeardedDragon645 lmao I was on the edge of my seat, this was so convincing I thought he was a real comedian and had that same exact reaction at that moment.
@@KodyXXVll You say that now but you'll see one day... ;)
@@KodyXXVll relax
They weren't laughing AT him; they thought he was joking
He may have been on point but he was being vulnerable and honest with them about his shortcomings as a Christian and a husband. I applaud him for his honesty and humility, I wish I had half the courage to be as open, honest and vulnerable in front of a crowd so large. God bless you John, thank you for your sincere example.
Authenticity and transparency from those in leadership roles is comforting and creates a sense of safety that we can be fully known, warts and all. Jesus Died for us while we where yet sinners. It would be great if all believers where able to do this routinely. I think it would make for a interpersonally healthier Church ♥️💕
I was laughing at his confusion of the laughing and that made me laugh harder.
I feel like there should have been a RC Sproul moment in there... “I’m serious!”
Dude, that's so funny.🤣
What’s wrong with you people! - R.C. would have also applied.
I appreciate hearing Mr Piper's confessions here. It's encouraging to be reminded that even men I respect... Whose ministries have encouraged and challenged me... are weak in many of the same ways as I am.
God bless his vulnerability...
... And I can understand why they were laughing. It's all about timing.
His timing is impeccable. Humor is innately personal and insanely territorial. Was does that even mean?