Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goal Post of Life

From the ‘you can’t make this stuff up’ file…

An NBC-DFW online story reports this:

A Grapevine preacher has found inspiration in the Super Bowl, saying there are valuable lessons to be learned — from the commercials.

Ken Diehm, the senior pastor at First United Methodists Church asked his congregation last week to text him about the commercials they want him to preach about.

“The commercials are selling us things and I want people in the church to think about what they’re being sold and how it relates to their faith,” Diehm said.

Ok, so the fact that this “pastor” is playing Super Bowl commercials during “worship” is bad enough, I admit. But I noticed something much more pathetic in the video clip of this news piece that can be found on the same page as the news story. You have got to watch it to believe it.

Part of the video features a man with a guitar sitting at the front of the church with the children sitting around him as he sings, you guessed it…”Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goal Post of Life”! What’s just as sad is that these people have obviously sung this thing a few times, as they even know the hand motions that go along with the music.

Now, I thought this might have just been some stupid song that this guy wrote for those pitiful children to sing there at this one particular “church”. But, no. As it turns out, this song was first released back in 1976 by Bobby Bare. Here is Bare’s recording of it. Does this garbage have anything to do with the worship of the One True God and His Son, Jesus Christ?