In his introduction to the song Jesus Is For Losers at Cornerstone 1994, Steve said:

(After performing Jim Morrison's Grave)

Well...that was a song about worshipping dead rock stars.  I don't know what it is, but sometimes I get a lot of <?>.  What if there were more rock stars than Christians?  What if there were Christians than movie stars?  Or...I don't know.  Not too long ago this guy came up to me, and he said to me in sort of hushed tones that he had heard that Burt Reynolds had become a Christian, and did I know anything about that?  Now...Burt and I had not been close for a number of years...so I couldn't really confirm or deny it.  I know I had heard rumors about that back in the "Smokey and the Bandit" glory days.  I guess it didn't turn out to be true then, you know, but if it's true now, that's great.  It's really great.  You know, I hope he finds a good church to get involved with, gets back with his wife, maybe starts making better movies, I don't know.

I don't mean to be flip or anything, but if you're like me, it's like I don't know why I spend more time wondering why the members of Pearl Jam aren't Christians than I do wondering why my own next-door neighbor isn't a Christian.

 I came across this verse the other day that speaks to this.  I don't quite have it memorized, but I'm going to read it to you anyways.  It's First Corinthians 1.  It says, "take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life."  I don't see many of the brightest and the best among you.  Not many influential.  Not many from high-society families.  Isn't it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women who the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these nobodies to expose the hollow pretensions of the somebodies.  Makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God.  Everything that we have, the right thinking and the right living, a clean slate and a fresh start, comes from God by way of Jesus Christ.

(audience cheers)

I will tell you this one fact, and it has been proven by research.  One loser who understands that apart from the grace of God, he is nobody - one loser who lives a life of humble obedience before God - means a lot more in the kingdom than ten celebrity Christians who don't.  See...I mean, most of us know that we're sinners, and that's a good thing. I would have to say that just about everybody on this planet has figured this out.  I have yet to hear of anybody who thinks that they're perfect, except maybe Barbara Striesand, I don't know.  But, see, most of us understand that we're sinners.  But, see, when we start understanding that we're losers, that's better.  Because if we understand that we're losers, we understand that 'my life is nothing', that we deserve nothing, that we have nothing, that, apart from God, we got nothing going for us, we're total losers - see, that's a good thing, because this is what it's about, these are the facts, this is my testimony.

This is "Jesus Is For Losers"...

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