Rev Bill

I have posted today’s sermon on my sermon blog. It’s based on Luke 7:11-17 and entitled “God Is With Us!”

Here’s a portion of it:

The 1984 movie “Footloose” tells the story of how a young man named Ren McCormack. The actor Kevin Bacon played the role of the teenager who, with the help of his friends, changes the attitudes of many folks in a small town. The main attitude that is changed is the dislike the adults in the town have about teenagers and their love for dancing — but the attitude of the town leaders towards young people in general is changed in other ways also.
It was a great film about how attitudes can be changed – with great music and dance numbers — and is one of those “feel good” movies that was a big box office hit.
There are many scenes in the movie where it seemed that Kevin Bacon – paying the role of Ren McCormack — was dancing some very fancy steps. When the move the movie was released, a lot of people wanted Kevin Bacon to duplicate many of those steps on stage and live TV shows. That’s when there became a problem.
The problem was, he couldn’t dance very well at all.
He tells the story that his son came to him shortly after the movie was released and said, “Dad, that movie was awesome! All those dance moves you did were really cool! Can you teach them to me?”
Bacon laughed and said: “Well, son, that wasn’t really me. That was a stunt man.”
“What’s a stunt man?” his son asked.
Bacon replied: “That’s a guy who dresses up in my clothes and does stuff I can’t do.”
His son then asked him:
“Well, gee, dad, just what did you do in that movie?”
“Well, son,” Bacon said sheepishly, “I guess I got all the glory for things I had not really done.”
With that in mind, Kevin called the studio where the movie was filmed and asked who actually had danced ion the movie. When he got in touch with the folks who had been his “doubles”, he asked them if they would appear with him on live TV talk shows and show how they had done some of the moves they performed. He even got them to teach some of the moves to his son.
He decided that he wanted to clear up the misconception that he had performed all the dances in the movie – and wanted to give credit where credit was due.

If you are wondering what this has to do with the Luke 7:11-17 passage, click here to read the entire sermon.

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