Red Lent

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This Lenten season, we are celebrating in colors at Jeff Street. Each week, we'll worship in living color and this week's was red. Here, then, is an excerpt from a song by Steven DeGeorge, in which he mentions a red bicycle...

He’d walk on into church like he owned the place,
and they wouldn’t see much more than the dirt upon his face.
And then a man would come and ask politely if he could show him to
the exits
but He’d walk right past and take the podium.

He’d say, “Blessed are the poor mechanics blessed are the miners’
families and
blessed are you who help the least of these.
And woe to you whose wealth is blinding; for you the kingdom will
be like driving through the eye of a needle in a white-washed SUV,”

…and they’d get mad. They’d get angry.
But I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know.

Well just outside of Morgantown it threw a rod, the truck broke
down,
and He sent His friends ahead and they hitchhiked.
They found a room and just like He said there was a Schwinn and it
was red, and
they brought it to Him and He rode triumphant in.

Hosanna man, lay your flannel down. He’s ridin’ in, put your shirt on
the ground.
Hosanna man, lay your flannel down. He’s ridin’ in, put your shirt on
the ground.