Denominations

And I am thrilled to be in Hollywood, California, anybody here actually from Hollywood?

Anybody from California?

Have you ever seen, we got a choir coming later on, It's called the Remarkable Choir

I named them the Remarkable Choir and you're gonna love them

Now this is a Pentecostal choir

And I'm Baptist, any Baptists here?

Oh, I thought I sensed a self-righteous spirit, I'm glad you're here

And the Pentecostals, where are you again?

Takes you long to get that hand up, doesn't it?

Any Methodists? Oh, up in the cheap seats

Little sprinkling of Methodists up there

Any Catholics here?

Oh, we're glad you're here

Thank you, I want you to feel at home

Any Nazarene?

Yes, any Lutheran? All right, we're whittling it down, we're whittling it down

Seventh-day Adventists?

Oh, right, we'll get you out early, we know you got church in the morning

Any non-denominational?

Just can't make up your mind, can you?

Any-anybody just get saved, you don't know what you are yet?

Don't lift your hand, a Baptist will sign you up

They will sign you up

Isn't that great? All these denominations under the same roof, isn't that nice?

And I'm sure I left somebody out

But I love that, all these people under the same roof, different denominations, nobody's fighting

I'm working on that

And that's something, all these denominations under the same roof

And just think somebody's wrong

Somebody's wrong

I think that's why eternity is gonna last so long, God's gotta straighten all y'all out

But I watch a lot of TV and I tell you what our Baptist choir is

Now I learned a lot from Bill Gaither because he told me to run a lyric through my brain

Run it through your brain before it comes out your mouth

Well, you know I'm not used to that, I'm a Lowry

We don't run things through our brain

My dad does, my dad actually thinks before he speaks

Me and mama, we think as we're speaking

We don't even know what we're thinking until we hear ourselves say it

Sometimes after we've heard it, even we don't agree with it

And I watch these, I watch these choirs

And on Sunday morning I'd be sitting there and watching these First Baptist Church choirs

And I'm thinking, man, run that lyric through your brain

And then pan, you know, that camera to go across and they'd be singing

It is joy unspeakable and full of glory, full of glory, full- of glory, it is joy unspeakable

And thought, ooh, you're wooing me to the bridegroom

And I love watching singers that mean to say yes but they're saying no, Have you ever seen them?

I believe in a hill called Mount Calvary

Well, do you or don't ya?

Turn your eyes upon Jesus

And preachers aren't any better, you know

They'll do normal during the announcements, you know

They'll talk normal, like you talk to you after church, normal

And then they pray, "Our Father, oh God, thou, thou God, oh, thou, thou God

Thou God, who flung the stars into the Milky Way"

If I was God, I'd be thinking, who're you talking to?

But I got people here tonight and you're gonna love 'em

Now, this group, the Isaacs, they're Jewish, they are Jewish

And they play bluegrass

And they call it shoe grass