This Assembly Program uses Stand - Up Comedy as a springboard into sharing the gospel with the lost and to encourage the saved to find their true worth in Jesus Christ!
The goal here is simply to go from craziness to the Cross! Using my own insecurities as background material, I show how the love of God can over shadow any hang-ups and hurts that keep us from being who God wants us to be!Finding my worth in Jesus helped me to overcome:
Years of pain associated with obesity:
“I was at the mall the other day and decided to try out some ‘Talking Scales.’ Their was a guy in front of me. He stepped on the scales and they said, “One Hundred and Sixty Pounds.” I stepped on them and they said, “One Person At A Time Please…”
A life time of not fitting in:
“I know that I am a messed up guy. It’s only natural since I come from a messed up family. My Grandma was hilarious. She wore knee high hose. The problem is that she always wore panty hose. She only pulled them up to her knees! She walked around with a little basket hanging around her knees, but it actually was okay. It was great for holding her Rooster Snuff and T.V. Guide…”
“I have never been the brightest bulb in the chandelier. My ignorance almost got my whole math class killed when I was in the fifth Grade. Our teacher was trying to teach us the metric system. To help us learn she had changed every thing in the class over to the metric system. Our rulers were metric. We had scales that were in metric. She had even changed our thermometer on the wall to metric. One morning it was kind of cold in the classroom and she asked me, ‘Ronnie can you turn the heat on for us?’ I didn’t understand the metric system at all. I set the temperature to 70 degrees. I didn’t know it, but that’s like 2000 degrees in metric! Kids were running and screaming! Their clothes were catching on fire. One was yelling, “My eyes! They are melting…”
“We’re all messed up. We all do things that are messed up. We fail things we try. We sin when we try to do good. We are not as perfect as we wished we were. We don’t look as ‘great’ as we wish we did. If we focus on those things, we can find ourselves living defeated, discouraged, depressed lives. Yet, the Bible tells us that even through our imperfections, there is a God that loves us perfectly. In fact, He has already proven it. “For God so loved the world, yes, even you, even me, that He sent His Son to make sure that He would spend eternity with you. You are so special to God that He would rather die than to live without you…” It has been said...
We Can’t Guarantee That Ronnie Will Behave
BUT
We Can Guarantee That He Will Be:
CLEAN
CARING
CHALLENGING
CHRIST-CENTERED
CROSS FOCUSED