Remember the "pitch his tents" sermon by Blake Bergstrom? No, tell me you haven't forgotten about the youth pastor who insisted that Lot pinched his bosom ... several times--and then nearly passed out from embarassment. Well, then refresh your memory over at "When sermons go awry", first, because the followup here is priceless.

Blake still has a job, fortunately, but his employers aren't above never letting him live it down. Recently, the film crew of Prank 3:16 showed up with several hidden cameras and wired the church offices for sound.

Okay, I wasn’t going to post merely frivolous stuff here, but this is far too precious to pass up.

You who preach … well. If you gotta slip up, go big.

Here’s a clip below of poor high school pastor Blake Bergstrom, who tried to work his way around a bit of a tongue twister as he introduced a sermon that might have already been doomed, based on his unusual use of metaphors. As you listen, just wait. No: the “light ourselves on fire so they can watch us burn” is not the gaffe you are listening for, surprisingly, but that imagery is bad enough that he might actually have improved his sermon with an extreme Freudian slip!

Here’s the audio:

[audio:http://tatumweb.com/blog/wp-content/mp3/blake-bergstrom-mistake.mp3]

(Here's the link if the flash player doesn't load.)

And Bergstrom has been good enough to actually release the video, which Kevin Rossen