We went to Cowboy Church! John Crist and Shama Mrema are First Time Visitors
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2023
- Cowboy Church in North Carolina! Comedians John Crist and Shama Mrema are on the search across America to find the most interesting church! We're hitting Asheville, North Carolina to get the vibe of the city, exploring the city's most churches, including Cowboy Church!
John Crist is a standup comedian. For live tour dates visit www.johncristcomedy.com/tour - Комедії
"If you've given up on church, but haven't given up on God, this church is for you"
Has to be one of the best church statements I've ever heard.
This would be the church for me! Love it!
I bet this church gets a lot of new people after this
This was SO profound and it's what's needed in the church +
God is in us and we are the church ⛪️
Same!
Thank you guys for coming to the Blue Ridge Cowboy Church! Ya’ll come back any time, we’re glad to have ya!
I hoped someone from the church would comment, I loved this video, and hope it brought new seekers to your fellowship. I used to attending a fellowship with tattooed, homeless, people of color, a bit tattered, but it slowly became "just white" and it lost sooo much soul. This video reminded me of those days...protect what you have now.
Can't stand dark churches as a visually impaired is scary
I want to go to that church!!
Well if I ever come to Asheville I'm coming! ❤
Oddly enough, there's a small town here called Ashville, Alabama. Saw some people outside walking around with horses in cowboy hats. Thought it was the strangest thing, But then thought it's probably filled with the most genuine and nice folks around.
I used to do this with a buddy in high school. Throw a dart at a map if TX, drive there early Sunday, stop at the first church we saw for service. We saw weird, we saw loving, we saw God at work. What a great summer exploring God.
My gosh that sounds like so much fun!
Sounds like a hoot of a road run
I’ve actually been to a church in Japan and have a great story. Since we were white Americans, something they never saw in their church, they stopped the service randomly, made us stand so everybody could see us and wave. Then the pastor said a lot of stuff in Japanese, the congregation laughed, and nobody translated what they said about us, then motioned for us to sit down. 😂 Then, after the service, some people came over super excited and told us we HAD to meet someone. It was the ONLY other white person there and they introduced us like we should know each other since we were white and thought we’d be best friends because of our shared skin. Turns out, he was from Poland 😅 A great experience! 😂
Yep… That’s what people do to Africans too. Oh you are Nigerian? Please meet my friend from Kenya. Do you speak African ? 😅
Omg I’m laughing so hard at this 😂
@@hannahmartin1425 me too!🤣
Military family?
😂😂😂
Thank you so much for your kind words!!! The Blue Ridge Cowboy Church is glad to have you, and welcomes you back any time you’re close by!! God bless!
Very memorable “I’m after the people you’re missing!”
Amen. Jesus commissioned us to be fishers of ALL men because we all need Jesus.
Amen!!
This quote could also apply to the LGBT-ally church as well. ❤
@@saffronandclovethat's not a real church
@@saffronandclove No, that is a misleading. I suggest you look into Ishtar and what they did at the temples of Ishtar and Baal. It is very clear that God is against such things. People are confused today by the same spirits as written in the old testament. If you read Kings, God would continuously send Prophets to warn Israel they are stirring away from God and need to repent, go back to living as God had commanded. Young people today barely know anything of biblical scripture. You can be welcoming to people without putting symbolism that makes you look accepting of a certain lifestyle, so lets be honest and say that it is not true of this church, they are clearly affirming which makes them against God. A lifestyle and making mistakes are very different. Mistakes can be forgiven, but a lifestyle is something else entirely. If you want to make your church look welcoming at all, you can put that statement that they are, but make it clear the church is not for that lifestyle. If people get upset even though they attend that church which they believe is nice, the church is not the problem, it is them. In Corinthians, Paul would tell others they need to turn from their old ways. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't put a flag with alcohol on it outside of the church for example.
@@charlibrown7745Well, "real" church is to worship an imaginary being, so...
Honestly, im one of those "given up on church" people and ive been to a cowboy church...nicest, most welcoming people ive ever met in a religious setting. The service we went to was outside, people brought their horses, and yes, they do give the kids rides on the horses. I'd go back, which is saying a lot for me.
I would love to experience a cowboy church service
I hope you do! Church helps builds great relationships 😊
Jesus loves you
Praying you find your way back there! 🫶🏻🫶🏻 I am a given-up-church-goer as well, but through reading God’s word-I’ve given my heart to him-and I feel the Holy Spirit leading me to find “my own Cowboy Church” because, I know when I’m surrounded by other like-minded Christians, that strengthens my relationship with Jesus, which will strengthen my desire to spread God’s word, and strengthen my own heart to know when the Holy Spirit is leading me toward, and on, the right *_path_* so I can better serve *His* people through my *_purpose._* 💟✝️
I loved this. ❤ I was a little scared that it would be mocking churches BUT it’s the opposite. Respectful, funny and beautiful.
SAME!!
Scared they pulled up to your Methodist church and start bashing it for praising Satan?
@@JLC87420 Methodist churches aren't praising Satan.
There are many protestant churches and Christians that are turning away from God instead of following Him.
This is exactly why the Bible has all the letters to the churches. Ignoring them is the exact opposite of what the church is supposed to do.
@@RW-zh7kl 😂😂😂 ok Satan worshipper.
Yesssss! I love how it’s actually positive. Chuch Wagon Sunday reminded me of the Sunday feasts I used to experience in my old church in the Philippines.
That cowboy church was exactly what a church should be. So happy to see it.
"and voice came down from heaven and said ....B9" literally had me laughing so hard! Great video!
And a bit ironic considering that 'drag bingo' is anything but B9.
I didn't get the joke. Care to explain?
“If you’ve given up on church, but haven’t given up on God, this church is for you.” ❤
For some reason just now, Jeff Foxworthy's voice came to mind lol this is a great way to remember God has a place for us all !!!
As a non-American this is both entertaining and informative. Keep it up.
My favorite line in here (with “B9” as an honorable mention): “If you’ve given up on church but not on God, come here.” That had me longing to drive 8 hours to come to Cowboy Church
Look it up in your area, I bet there is one within an hour of you!! It is a denomination
🙌🏽Cowboy Church’s Pastor: “…l’m not after your people ! I’m after the people you’re missing !!”
🔥🔥 🔥 Lord, have mercy!!🔥🔥🔥
Speaking the word, worshipping Jesus and loving our neighbors. Can’t go wrong with that
Amen from London UK 🙌🏿✝️🧎🏽
I would 100% attend Cowboy church.
My sister sent me a link to one segment, and I have watched every episode all in one sitting. Having worked in TV Development for CMT and the WB, I can day this show deserves to be on major network TV or any streaming platform. Bravo and hallelujah, guys!
This was so good! Just hilarious. I didn't expect to get emotional at the end 😭 That cowboy church looks like such a tight-knit community of believers.
I was blessed by the end that I didn't see coming! God is good!
Would love to see this more in the churches!!
Right?! Like a Cowboy version of the book of Acts. Love to see it. Close, tight-knit but welcoming of new folks is how ALL our churches should be!
@@bethprather9241 ikr? Now I'm hungry!
@@sarahsunshine78 🎯✔️
I once visited a Messianic congregation whose rabbi looked like an old school cowboy. He wore a kippah. a prayer shawl, a handlebar mustache, and cowboy boots.
That’s great!
This was funny and sweet at the same time. I would love to be part of the Cowboy Church.
We are in TEXAS and they are EVERYWHERE!!! Great places with down home folks!!!
John please don’t stop with the church visits! I think this was my favorite one so far. The congregation at Cowboy church seemed so wonderful, down to earth, and welcoming! The Lord has given you such wonderful gifts. God Bless!
At first I was like, “Oh no! This can’t work out well. Then the ending had tears flowing! How sweet! What fellowship is all about!”
Love this so much I wish I could give it 10 thumbs up. It’s hard to be funny and respectful at the same time but they nailed it.
Fun fact, I used to live in Asheville and attended Biltmore Church around 2012. I remember being one of the few black guys there, but I honestly enjoyed the services and made a lot of friends in the college ministry there at the time.
My encouragement for any church is that kindness and genuine love go a long way, no matter who walks through your doors. Grace and peace to everyone, and thanks guys for making this series. Been enjoying it!
I moved from Winston Salem to that area and that was the first thing i noticed…missed that diversity! 🤷🏻♀️
Loved this! It’s like a Christian buddy comedy. You two just need to go around the country visiting places together.
Agree
“So far so white” 😂.
Also agree u guys need to do this full time ALL THE CHURCHES
At the Cowboy Church the song I Serve a Savior is sung by Josh Turner.
Great song!
What a sweet tribute to this church. Made me cry! I would be so proud of this if i was a member. This kind of love is what America needs to be pouring out. And you handled the other churches well too. Thank you for keeping it positive!
The Cowboy Church seems to be no show and no fluff, but lots of love! Sounds like a great place!
Cowboy churches are the best!🙌❤️
Thanks fellas.
This was good!
Oh wow! You have the same name as I do. 😮
Facts🎉
I live 20 minutes from downtown Asheville and I never tell people I'm from Asheville! 😂 I tell them I'm from Fairview. ❤ I don't want to be associated with the wokeness! Glad you had a good trip! It was really cool to see you driving on roads I travel all the time!
We moved out to Sanger, TX last june and have been blessed to find a true Spirit filled church home a lot like this!!
Love this!!
Small world fellow Indian!
@cptjackwagon too cool....
Just went to church today in Sanger, Texas!
Pastor Cowboy got me right in the feels with the "missing" bit. Excellent show with this one.
Starter Portland 😂 Being from Portland, I say run! 🤣 The way you two play off each other is hilarious.
Being a pk this spoke to my heart. I have a different perspective of Sunday church. Seeing different types of worship throughout America is just great. Thank you John Crist. We love down the road from a Cowboy Church and they have a rodeo after church!😊
I love that he’s gracious to the first two churches, but if a church is not about upholding Scripture and worshipping Christ for who he is, we need to be okay with being bold when a church shows love for wealth or tolerance(or celebration) of sin.
I just visited Asheville for the first time 3 months ago. It was... interesting. Honestly, while there, my friends and I felt spiritually oppressed. Like a heaviness. But now hearing it's a mecca for wicca/witchcraft, that makes sense.
Visiting in 1995 it was so peaceful but then again compared to the oppressive place almost any place would be a cakewalk
It's weird. I'm from South Carolina. Spent plenty of time up there as a kid, since I had a grandparent who lived up there, and it used to be different. Now it's a bit weird.
As someone who lives in one of the ‘red’ counties surrounding the ‘blue’ county in NC, don’t hold Asheville against us all!!!
I’m glad you ended up at the cowboy church and on Chuckwagon Sunday. Third church was the charm.
"..The first time I got a Star Wars flashback in church". 😂 Please, visit more churches!
Chuck wagon Sunday = Potluck= Pitch In depending on where you live. 😂
" I'm not after your people. I'm after the people you're missing.".....Well said.
I just visited the Biltmore yesterday and I never would've guessed there's a church full of cowboys in town.
I loved the cowboy church....lots of heart and it looks like they do life together!
This is simultaneously the funniest and most wholesome thing I have seen all day.
I love the comment, this church is a church with history and John’s response is “that could go either way”😂😂😂
Glad they had a good experience
A John and Shama Podcast should be a thing in Jesus' name, amen.
Great video experience. Always wanted to go to Cowboy Church but never had the courage to go by myself, guess this is my sign to go. Seems like they are very welcoming.
Find out when it's chuck wagon Sunday. A great way to be able to get to know the people 😀
Ohhh to be greated as that lady greated you at a church….sincere and welcoming! I would go there in a heartbeat!
This was really funny, yet heartwarming at the end. That Cowboy Church would have my attendance if I lived in that area.
“Loves to ride children on their horses.” 🤣
What a logistical marvel.
I loved this! How great to know everyone can have a different flavor of church and serve the same God who loves everyone!!
Feel like I've been to church. Thank you John!
You had me laughing and crying! Great video y’all are both hilarious. Needed a good laugh to start the day.🙏
Totally agree! I especially get tickled and can't stop laughing every time John laughs. His laugh is infectious. 😂😂
I so appreciated and enjoyed this! "They may look like fish out of water at another church..." What a neat opportunity to fellowship with other believers! 😊🤗❤🙌🙌
Hilarious and heartwarming! Cowboy church is a VIBE love it.
The description they're using for NC sounds identical to Oregon. Portland and Salem are blue, the rest is super red!
It’s a correct description. Asheville is the hippiest town in North Carolina.
The last church literally has me smiling 😊. Great job hope to see more from you guys. Thank you
As soon as I heard "Chuck Wagon Sunday" I knew they's a gettin ready to throw down the chow!! Love it!! Reminds me of the homecoming services our youth choir back in the day went to on Sundays during the summer. I was 18, just graduated High School, and was in good shape. But man, 3 months later, 10 or 12 homecomings, I put on 65 pounds....and loved every minute of it. Great work ya'll.
This was so good!! I love seeing churches who actually welcome people in as their own from the start
It is sadly what is missing from many churches today.
We love our cowboy church! Ridin High Cowboy Church in Union Valley Texas!
My father in-law is pastor of a cowboy church! This made my day!
So we actually attend a Cowboy Church here in Tennessee and love it. More real than any Baptist church I’ve ever stepped into.
Our music isn’t that slow but we definitely have some similar decor lol
Our pastor is also a rancher AND on the fire department. He always wears a cowboy hat. 🤠
Thousand Hills Cowboy Church-check it out! We’ve grown so big, we’ve had to renovate our main building AND we have a second campus.
What area? I am in E TN & looking for a church..
I am 5 hrs away from this cowboy church and I absolutely want to make the drive 😂❤🐴 🤠
Actually, in Japan, the Catholic Churches are predominantly overseas workers from southeast Asia like Fiipinos. The specific church I went to last I was in Japan had several different priests from Indian to Vietnamese to Spanish to Japanese, of course.
Loved this video. John and Shama, y'all make a great team together. I truly hope we see more of you both. You play off each other so well. Gotta say, I'm from Texas and that Cowboy Church was awesome. We have a Cowboy type church right here in Caddo Mills, Tx. and it's very similar to the one in N. C. --- Love you both and thank you for the best laugh and biggest smile of my day!
I can not wait to visit NC. I am going out of my way, to attend a service there!
Yee Haw for Jesus!!
You guys nailed this! Everything you said about AVL is true. I live here and not interested in church but I love God! I may just go try out the cowboy church. 💕💕💕
Loved this!! Funny and poignant all in one. Just one complaint …. John why you hogging the middle console in the car the whole time? 😂
I would definitely go to cowboy church lol
Literally the best video I have watched in five years! Love this! I think you may be a secret genius.
My husband's family owns Jackson's Western Store and our boys are 5th generation! Thanks for the shout out lol! If you're ever back in this area, please stop by!!
😄 Proud Presbyterian, here…this was great! Happy Sunday! 🙏🏼❤️
This is my new favorite thing to watch on UA-cam! I’m so excited to see where this goes
So glad y’all stayed for the luncheon! Enjoyed from Texas!
We drive twice a year from California to Florida and back. Have passed many Cowboy churches. NOW I'm inspired to stop and attend. Thank you ...
So happy to see you thriving. You're an inspiration to everyone out there who has had to take a few steps back in life to reflect after some missteps....which is all of us. This series is great!
Do more of this!!!
I loved every part of this! Would watch a season of these!!❤
This was GREAT! Funny and respectful, which I
so appreciated! Can’t wait to see more!
Excited for your "So Far, So White" tour coming soon! 😂
"They think we're like a gay couple"
💀💀
a church that promotes sin isn’t a church. Cowboy church is great. I attended one in whitney tx. Loved it. Church and food is happiness.
Cowboy Church….what a blessing! God always reserves a remnant for Himself!
Thank you for making reviewing churches fun and exciting. I will think of this video while I am continuing my process of reviewing churches. 🙏
We attend a cowboy church in Edmonton Alberta on Friday nights. I love how you shared your experience visiting cowboy church.
I'm from NC. I've followed John for a long time . His humor about Church is fabulous. You have to watch him talking to himself in the parking lot before Church lol but this duo was amazing !!! I laughed the entire time lol loved the Cowboy Church ! Used to be a member of the Church that had to find you the empty seats (sometimes with a flashlight). Praise God wherever he leads you and take your friends to try out another Church. God has a place for you. He's waiting for you !!
I loved that the fellas didn't want to assume they were welcome to the potluck and were leaving and someone told them they weren't leaving on an empty stomach. That's what church should be about.
I love that I have an expectation of loving what you create...can honestly say I've never been disappointed. Love that you get to do what God has gifted you to do and that so many of us get to enjoy it!
I've never subscribed to a channel so lightning fast. These guys are wholesome, funny, respectful, informative. If I lived a 100 miles in any direction from that cowboy church, I'd be there on Sunday!
This was entertaining and very sweet. Blessings to the congregation of Cowboy Church. 🤍
Loving this series John! Great job of finding humor without disrespecting these churches. This is a feel good series and one of the only reasons you’ll find me watching content on UA-cam!
😂 So funny but the end was profound! 😮. John & Shama good job!
Best review ever! Cowboys keep it all real, all day long.
I've got to admit, the cowboy church statement made me cry when I heard you guys say it and that caught me by surprise. I went from skeptic to rooting them on. And that lady making them come back in and partake in the chuckwagon...every church needs a good-natured lady like that to encourage others and make them step out of their comfort zone to participate. Great video. I really enjoyed this.
This is an awesome series! You guys are so funny together. This is the healthy making fun of each other that is so missing in today's culture. Thank you for making it cool again! God bless you both.
As a North Carolinian, we do NOT claim Asheville as one of our own!
Love this! It was funny but they also were respectful of each church no matter how different it was from your typical church. Would love to see more of this!
One of the most entertaining videos I have seen in a while, would love to see more!
Love seeing you go to different Churches. Have done that myself and with my family when we were on vacation, before Churches started live streaming their services. Thank you for showing positive things about Churches!!!
I loved everything about this video. 😂😂❤❤