Best ever!!!!!

If he was Roman Catholic instead of Baptist, we may have heard something like this "...and I would like to thank the Lord for my really cute alter boy".

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Pastor defends invocation, says he didn't want to give "cookie-cutter prayer''

Pastor Joe Nelms was on Sirius Satellite Radio’s “Tradin’ Paint’’ on Monday and talked about the invocation he gave. Here is part of what he said in the interview.

On the prayer:

NELMS: I never seem to be able to rehearse the prayer. This is my fourth time doing the invocation in the last two years at the Nashville track and I’ve never had it in mind. I think that’s part of why it goes over well with the fans and with the drivers because they can tell it’s not staunch and rehearsed, it’s something that’s coming from the heart. I’ve been a race fan ever since I can remember. That was a Sunday afternoon tradition at our house, come in, eat Sunday afternoon lunch after church and sit around the living room watching racing.

“I always said if I get a chance after God told me to preach … to pray at one of the events of the track, I don’t want to do the cookie-cutter prayer, not that we don’t need to thank God for our military men and women, absolutely, we wouldn’t be here without them, not that we don’t desire safety for all of the of the officials, workers and drivers, we certainly don’t want anything to happen to anybody out there. We need a safe race. But it’s the same prayer week in and week out and I’m not sure anybody is even listening to it anymore. So I said, I want to get somebody’s attention, so that’s been our desire every time we’ve been up there, to try to make an impact on the fans and give them something they’ll remember and maybe they’ll go home on a Friday night or a Saturday night and say, “Maybe I ought to get up and go to church in the morning.’’

About giving a prayer from the heart:

NELMS: The very first one I did was at a truck race … but just for instance, it was on YouTube and I thought it was a very emotional prayer. I was praying for them as they trade paint, bumper to bumper, three wide in the turns. Everybody at the track went nuts. “I’m not saying they’re not Christians at the race … but you know probably the majority of folks in the stands even a lot of the drivers and crew members aren’t Christians, they’re not church-going folks. A lot of them have been turned off by it because they have the impression that only good people go to church and if you’ve ever done anything wrong, then you’re not allowed in and everybody is looking down on you.

“While I don’t condone sin, I don’t think it’s OK and Jesus is not OK with us just breaking the rules, sort of speak. … I think that we need to let folks know that accepting Christ as your savior and letting God into your life is not an end to living but it’s a beginning. I’ve had more fun since I got saved as a 13-year-old boy. The Bible talks about He desires for our joy to be full. Our heart’s desire was to show people that side. … I wanted to put the fun in fundamental. Some folks took it irreverently and there was some flack over it, some negative comments, but you’re going to have that anyway. I didn’t take to heart too many negative comments. “I had one guy, believe it or not, showing his IQ I guess that said, “you arrogant SOB, you know God’s a Chevy fan and you didn’t mention them.’ I thought, he doesn’t understand what GM Performance cars and technology is.’’

On the smokin’ hot wife line:

NELMS: “My wife and daughter were actually packing. We were getting ready to go on vacation. They heard it on TV. Again, I don’t rehearse it, so she was hearing it for the first time. She said my daughter laid on the floor laughing. She didn’t even hear me say her name for laughing at me saying, “smokin’ hot wife.’ ''

About giving a prayer before the race:

NELMS: “What a great sport that we have a prayer. Where else are you going to get to watch prayer on national TV but at a NASCAR event? I’ll take the good (reaction) with the bad any day as long as they just keep praying.’’
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When I saw it, I was laughing out loud! I am also grateful that this pastor has a sense of humor and also realizes that he won't be doing an alter call immediately afterward. In all things give thanks and thanks he did. Now I want to see a picture of his smokin' hot wife!
 
carsntunes said:
When I saw it, I was laughing out loud! I am also grateful that this pastor has a sense of humor and also realizes that he won't be doing an alter call immediately afterward. In all things give thanks and thanks he did. Now I want to see a picture of his smokin' hot wife!
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No you don't. She's as ugly as sin! :(
 
Okay, maybe not ugly as sin, but not so smokin' hot. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And he can worry not about another wanting to behold her.
 
carsntunes said:
Okay, maybe not ugly as sin, but not so smokin' hot. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And he can worry not about another wanting to behold her.
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I was just funnin'. I've never seen her. Maybe he was talking about her emotional state of mind. Maybe she has hot flashes...or she's overweight and sweats like a pig on a spit, smoke and all.

Only God knows.
 
FenderBumper said:
Maybe not, but it's true. What the Catholic church let those bastards do to those kids for decades earned them a special place in hell.
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What you said in your original attempt to be funny was not true.

Sure, there were abusers in the church and they got away with.

But the statement you made is still not funny and is actually insulting and stupid.

Do you understand me now?
 
I'm glad the cameras didn't pan around to find Morgan Shepherd. I imagine we would've seen something like this .....

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Guido said:
What you said in your original attempt to be funny was not true.

Sure, there were abusers in the church and they got away with.

But the statement you made is still not funny and is actually insulting and stupid.

Do you understand me now?
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Who did I insult? I think someone's diaper needs to be changed.
 
OK, I've had enough of everybody getting their panties in a wad over every little thing.

This has got to stop. If you don't like what someone posts, tell them in a PRIVATE MESSAGE.

Do NOT bring it to the board.

Do ALL of you "keyboard warriors" get the picture? If not, I'll let you sit in the Corner for a while and play with yourself.

And, yes, pun intended.
 
TexasRaceLady said:
OK, I've had enough of everybody getting their panties in a wad over every little thing.

This has got to stop. If you don't like what someone posts, tell them in a PRIVATE MESSAGE.

Do NOT bring it to the board.

Do ALL of you "keyboard warriors" get the picture? If not, I'll let you sit in the Corner for a while and play with yourself.

And, yes, pun intended.
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Yay for Texas! :beerbang:
 
Texas lady are you saying its ok to bash someones relegion on here as long as no one reacts to their immature posts?
 
VaDirt said:
Whatever. :rolleyes: Doesn't matter in the end, becasue it was there. Whether you like it or not.
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Just saying it didn't belong, I've never heard an invocation where the person giving it refers to his or her significant other as hot. That should be kept private, I'd be more than willing to bet that is the last one he gives for Nascar.
 
dirtguru said:
Texas lady are you saying its ok to bash someones relegion on here as long as no one reacts to their immature posts?
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dirtguru, I don't see where anyone's religion is being bashed. The minister is apparently very enthusiastic. His congregation is the sole judge of whether or not he's a good minister. If they have no objections to him, then it's a moot point whether we like him or not.
 
Mopardh9 said:
Just saying it didn't belong, I've never heard an invocation where the person giving it refers to his or her significant other as hot. That should be kept private, I'd be more than willing to bet that is the last one he gives for Nascar.
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Betcha it's not. But then again, NASCAR sure doesn't want any flavor to infiltrate their bland product.
 
Good for the Pastor. He does not want to be cookie cutter, surely, he must be a Holy man of God.


If he had only called fire down to consume Btian France, and Bruton Smith....


The most serious thing about the invocation and national anthem to me, is watching the camera scope out the wives and gf's with their drivers.


But as far as seriously considering deliveries, I would rather hear it from a man that is seriously into his wife. IMO that's more spiritual than the ones with a dried-up pre written reading.


I hope the good pastor had a fun slam bam action filled Saturday night too, hot and juicy beats dried up any day or night.
He's no fool, that's more than I can say the starchies.


I can't see the Lord being against a man that's in love with his wife either.


God bless him.
 
dirtguru, catholicism is a religion. The roman catholic church is an organization.

Just thought you should know.

As far as the preachers comments, he's just a man having some fun. I thought it was great. His invocation was a whole lot better, and honest, than the preachers who fervently ask God to look over the race sponsor, Piggly-Wiggly.
 
TexasRaceLady said:
dirtguru, I don't see where anyone's religion is being bashed. The minister is apparently very enthusiastic. His congregation is the sole judge of whether or not he's a good minister. If they have no objections to him, then it's a moot point whether we like him or not.
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I wasn't talking about the Bro(not minister who gave the invocation). You seem to be turning a blind eye to the derogotory comments being made about religion on here. The comments about the Bro was not what ruffled the feathers.
 
You can certainly learn an awful lot about people by just laying back and reading threads. :rolleyes:

I loved the invocation. That pastor has been a race fan most of his life and really put it on the line Saturday. :beerbang:
 
I agree Smoke, WalMart musta' had a sale on pre-twisted panties.
 
SST55 said:
I agree Smoke, WalMart musta' had a sale on pre-twisted panties.
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Never stops does it, kind of odd that a preacher would say on national tv that he thinks his wife is hot. I couldn't care less what he thinks about his wife that is personal, it doesn't IMO belong in an invocation.
 
Mopardh9 said:
Never stops does it, kind of odd that a preacher would say on national tv that he thinks his wife is hot. I couldn't care less what he thinks about his wife that is personal, it doesn't IMO belong in an invocation.
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I guess someone was first in line at that Walmart sale.:rolleyes:
 
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