KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) - A pastor brought out a dirt bike during a church service to demonstrate the concept of unity. Now he's demonstrating the concept of healing.
Jeff Harlow, the senior pastor at Crossroads Community Church, broke his wrist when he lost control of the motorcycle at the start of Sunday's second service, driving off a 5-foot platform and into the vacant first row of seats. He underwent surgery on the wrist Monday.
"Jeff has already laughed a lot, so he's OK. I think his pride was bruised," said his wife, Becky.
Becky Harlow said her husband had recently attended a motorcycle race in Buchanan, Mich.
"He had this idea that he would bring this bike out onstage and show people how the rider would become one with the bike," she told the Kokomo Tribune. "He was going to just sit on it and drive it out. He was just walking the dirt bike out onstage and somehow it got away from him. It was not intended."
No one else was hurt.
Jeff Harlow had performed the demonstration at earlier services Saturday night and Sunday morning without incident.
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rolln, was that at his church or at a Promise Keepers event? But I do know he did it.
I think Chuck Swindol did this stunt - riding his Harley onto the stage as some kind of demostration. OKayyyyy
Actually it reminds me of 2 Timothy 4: 3-4
For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths.
this reminds me of a pastor who came to church with a snake to preach about satan..at the end..was taken to hospital
What effort some pastors will make to try to reach their audiance...good thing none were in the front row!
Now then, although I was raised in a more conservative church in a somewhat conservative denomination...there are different strokes for different folks. One of the more traditional churches sponsers a Church on the Lake at Lake Murry ourside of Columbia. They all get together with their boats on the lake.
Just for the record, we have real worship in our service yet to conclude a series called S.W.A.T. (Spiritual Warfare Attack Training) our conservative Calvanist pastor was lowered from the catwalk in full SWAT gear....
It helps to have a couple of retired Rangers and SEALs in the church....
Yeah ridiculous eh? I went to a "Christian Faith Center" for a Sunday service one fine Sunday morning a few years ago, and they had a Elvis impersonator up on stage (what ever happened to the altar) swinging his hips and singing a "gospel" song. I couldn't believe it! If I wanted to go watch "Elvis" I'd have gone out last night and had a cold Canadian beer at one of the local nightclubs. I'd left that lifestyle behind years ago when I was a younger man, I certainly didn't expect to see it in "church". It was exactly these wacky ideas that brought this prodigal son back Home! This isn't worship! Worship isn't about singing, dancing, telling stories about my summer vacation (ie mission trip), instead that can be done on a weekday night! Worship isn't about showing off your motor bike, that's just vanity! Lord have mercy!
Matt Redmon's lyrics come to mind:
"I'm coming back to the heart of worship,
and it's all about you, it's all about you, Jesus.
I'm sorry, Lord, for the thing I made it
when it's all about you, it's all about you, Jesus."