The Life of Lou Ruppert

We didn’t really do anything for Palm Sunday in my church, but I thought it was worth reminding the world via my blog title. The sermon was a good lesson on people being willing to make tons of noise and spectacle about something, but rarely willing to actually back it up with real action and belief. The same people that cheered for Jesus to come to Jerusalem were the ones that cheered to have him condemned days later. Crowds are shallow like that.

It’s “parade mentality,” like the jolly spectators that were beside themselves with enthusiasm for our cowbell yesterday. Would they sit home and listen to hours of cowbell recordings for pleasure? Not likely, but everybody wanted to yell “More Cowbell!” because it made them laugh at an old Saturday Night Live joke. In Jesus’ case, maybe it made people feel more patriotic or religious to celebrate their Jewishness with those kind of cheers. But I could identify with those crowds, waving green branches and yelling over nothing in particular. Sometimes it just feels good to be part of a noisy crowd, even if nobody really knows what all of the yelling really means.

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