They nailed modern evangelicalism on this one:
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wow, well done.
yes very well done.
Too true. I understand the long prayer until the worship leader comes back. When I was an elder at a local bible-based church, we were all excited about our new youth worship leader. Often these narcissistic individuals are busy flirting as we soon found out. Now, I’m out.
LOL! They even used the overused “Papyrus,” font. I wonder if that too was intentional and part of the parody.
I’m quite ashamed to admit that I love the Papyrus font. It’s better than loving Comic Sans, right?
Right?
As for being a parody, I saw this on another site. They said that it was produced by a real mega church poking fun a themselves. Is self deprecation parody? Can you parody yourself?
Thought Merriam-Webster could help out here.
Parody:
1 : a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule
2 : a feeble or ridiculous imitation
Nope, I don’t think you can parody yourself. Then, as you suggested, it becomes self-deprecation. I know this has been tremendously helpful to you, and you’re welcome.
I’m afraid you can easily parody yourself.
Actors regularly do this when doing cameos in films.
I fail to see how that can’t fall under:
“a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect”
If you can’t imitate and/or laugh at yourself, you’re not doing it right.
This was produced by a mega-church video team (North Point Church in Atlanta). Why they made it is an interesting question. It was supposedly made to be used as a joke at a conference for church leaders.
A template?
Aha! The Papyrus font was intended. 1st award at the bottom states, “Winner Papyrus Font Awards.” Nice. And yea, “parody” may not have been an accurate description.
Oh my good gracious. I don’t think I have ever been more embarrassed to have been a Christian. That is “YC (Youth for Christ)” in a nutshell! Somewhere out there the members of “United” are saying, “I feel stupid and I don’t know why”.
And yah, if you want to kill a Graphic Designer, use Papyrus. =P
Daniel – this was CLASSIC!!!! I shared it on Huffington Post…..
That was brilliant!
This reminds me of the Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFicqklGuB0
ROFL!
Ha! That trailer deserves an award for sure. Pure meta-brilliance.
OMFG.
My church was exactly like that.
Waaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
So perfectly formulaic.
Nailed!
Calvary chapel, youth groups, godtube, dwade, cluster-fundies:
North Point Media has your number.
Great video.
I’ll link to it.
This made me laugh at first, then so incredibly grateful that I’m no “tithing” to support this madness! This is absolutely spot on, down to the “cool” t-shirt wearing pastor. I still cringe everytime I hear the word “relevant”.
Cool.
Those embedded Vimeo videos don’t show up on iPhone OS devices. Oddly enough, when you go to Vimeo itself, they do show. Would it be possible to add a link to the source video in the future?
Could anyone send this to Godtube?
I will check and see if you have to register with them to post. (*gag*)
Maybe someone can hack it in.