GeneFrenkle said:Baptist City Holdout said:GeneFrenkle said:Has Mike Fish's sermon "Ding Dongs, Devil Dogs, and Ho-Hos" been mentioned yet?
Classic line: "I'm still up here chewing on my ding dong".
Gene, You just got your first "Standing Ovation!"
Sweet! What's that redeemable for??
Ok, here's the story. Evening College chapel between '97 and '01. The idea of the sermon was clever and easy to remember: don't be these certain things. I THINK the props were Devil Dogs (cakes), Ho Ho's, and Ding Dongs.
His point was that you shouldn't be a Devil Dog....don't be part of the devil's crowd and living like the world. He then ate one of the Devil Dogs and threw the other one to a staff member for a laugh.
Same with Ho Ho's...talked about promiscuity, fornication, adultery, etc. Ate one and threw the other to a staff member.
He got to the Ding Dong. Preached about being mature in the Lord. Ate the Ding Dong and threw the other one to a staff member. I kid you not, he said (because he had no water and found it hard to keep talking):
"I'm still chewing on my Ding Dong". It was -what seemed like- an eternity of silence. I can't remember exactly what happened next.
I was told that Dr. Owens said out loud, "That must hurt". In my mind, I hear it and think it happened. But I'm not sure.
Regardless, after the eternity of silence and shock laughter ensued. He tried to finish his sermon but he might as well have shut his Bible right then and there.
Never made it out on cassette as far as I know.
If it were only on cassette it would unravel and be forgotten. It is now on the internet for all eternity!