Mashed Potatoes & Different Religions

I just wanted to share a couple of funny stories from the Tulsa Workshop. Thursday night as I stated below Jeff Walling and Chucke Buer spoke. Afterwards we were encouraged that when we went out in the Tulsa community on Friday to invite someone to come and hear Max Lucado and Bob Russell speak. Since Max Lucado is a well know author they figured it was be a good conversation starter. Stan, Dad and I had eaten at a corner cafe in downtown Tulsa on Thursday morning, so we decided we would also go on Friday morning and while we were there we decided we would invite our waitress to come here Lucado that night. Stan opens up the conversation and it went something like this:

Stan: Have you ever heard of Max Lucado?
Waitress: Mashed Potatoes?
Stan: No, Max Lucado
Waitress: Yeah, we have mashed potatoes
Stan: (very slowly) Maaaaaxxxx Luuuucaaaadoooo
Waitress: Mash Lucado?
Me:No, M-A-X
Waitress:No never heard of him (walks off)

HAHA. We never got to invite her. The moment was so awkward we just gave up, and I don't think the waitress really cared either way. Anyway, we laughed a lot at Max Lucado's expense although he never knew. Stan says the title of Mashed Potato's next book will be "Finding God in the Gravy". That was a really funny moment.

Another funny moment was during the Jubilee singing in the Fairgrounds Exchange center. A guy by the name of Marcus Garrett gets on stage to sing...by himself (his group couldn't be there until the next day). So he played background tracks and he sang the lead part. The first song that he sang was "This Little Light of Mine". When he got through he said

"We need to let our light shine. There are lots of other religions out there and they are outnumbering us, like the Catholics...and the Baptists"

WHAAAAAAT!!!! You could have cut the awkwardness in the room with a knife, it was so thick. I could see everyone looking at each other in disbelief. I tried not to laugh out loud at that comment, but it was truly funny, and yet sad at the same time. Hopefully that was just a statement made out of nervousness.

Anyway, those were a couple of funny moments that stood out. If you have never been to the Tulsa Workshop you don't know what you're missing. YOU MUST GO NEXT YEAR, I COMMAND YOU.

Have a great day e'erybody