As I was growing up, the Ed Sullivan Show was on every Sunday night. From 1948 until its cancellation in 1971, the show ran on CBS from 8–9 p.m. Ed would always start the show by saying, “Tonight, we have a really big show.” My favorite appearances were by Topo Gigio, Dean Martin, and the Beatles.
Some pastors have, over the years, tried to have a really big show with a similar cast of strange characters. One enterprising pastor promised to lift a tremendous weight with his teeth. The crowd wasn’t disappointed because the weight pulled the front teeth right out of his mouth.
The Apostle Paul didn’t use gimmicks but kept the main thing the main thing.
And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God.
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
That’s how it was done two thousand years ago and how it should be done today.
Give it some thought, and for the kids out there, Topo Gigio was a talking mouse.
Gary