Dennis Prager Show - Don't Cancel Church, Make it a Drive-In
Aired: 2020-03-18
Duration: 02:16


=== Pastor's Sermon in the Parking Lot (02:15) ===

[00:00:01]  Okay, let's go to a pastor in Santa Monica, California.
[00:00:06]  You have a church in Santa Monica, California?
[00:00:11]  Hello, Dennis.
[00:00:13]  Yes.
[00:00:14]  Can you hear me?
[00:00:15]  Yes, sir.
[00:00:17]  I just love you, love you a lot.
[00:00:21]  And I'm calling because, just a back story, Santa Monica, Pilgrim was the only church who was on the lawsuit against taking the cross off the LACO. And I called you 15 years ago about that.
[00:00:39]  I'm a good friend of Bob Dargatz, Religious on the Line.
[00:00:43]  Oh, wow.
[00:00:45]  Yes.
[00:00:47]  So just saying, we're not going to close our doors after 106 years.
[00:00:53]  Not going to happen.
[00:00:54]  I'm going to bring my congregation in.
[00:00:57]  for the parking lot and I'm gonna do my sermon from the upper steps and we'll continue because you have to have a pastor word and sacrament and confession and absolution and we'll do this.
[00:01:16]  So you're gonna do so oh that's an interesting answer because let me to this issue so you will have your service in a parking lot?
[00:01:27]  I'm going to do it.
[00:01:28]  I told my president this morning, he said, I'll be in the front row.
[00:01:32]  He usually sits in the back.
[00:01:33]  We're Lutherans.
[00:01:34]  We sit in the back.
[00:01:35]  And he said, I'll be in the front row, and I'm going to do it in the parking lot.
[00:01:40]  And every pastor, religious services, if you've got a parking lot, do it in the parking lot.
[00:01:46]  So wait, wait, wait, let me just ask you, wait, wait, hold on.
[00:01:50]  Pastor, hold on.
[00:01:51]  When you say the parking lot, is everybody in their car or is everybody outside of their car?
[00:01:58]  In their car.
[00:01:59]  In their car.
[00:01:59]  This is how Robert Shuler with Crystal Cathedral got started.
[00:02:03]  They had the whole movie theater, drive-in movie theater set up.
[00:02:09]  Well, it's a fascinating response.
[00:02:13]  Painful to think of all the services being canceled.
[00:02:16]  We'll be back.