Let it loose! Let ‘er rip! Open up and give the best rip-roaring shout of praise you can muster up! Ready –shout!

[Cock your ear to listen…]

That was your shout of praise? Let’s try that again!

[Invite people to whoop it up!]

Well, that’s something that’s become hard for us to do in church these days, isn’t it?

Here we are experiencing the most amazing, mind-blowing truth of all time –the resurrection of Jesus and the super-charged presence of the Holy Spirit blowing right through and among us here this morning, and all we can dare to do is sit here in our pews with our hands folded, as though we’re in grade school waiting for the teacher to pat us on the heads and say, “quite so!”

What happened to us?

I call it “constipated Christianity.”

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