{"id":234,"date":"2026-03-12T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakesidecofc.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:48:14","slug":"the-price-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakesidecofc.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/the-price-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price is Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See if you recognize which game show used this line: \u201cCome on down!\u201d Yes, Johnny Olson made that his trademark, and other hosts continued to use it after he died. The original Price is Right show didn\u2019t have it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Contestants on The Price Is Right competed in guessing the retail price of various items; the one who came closest to the actual price w\/o going over won that item. Appliances and electronics were common articles put up for bid. The nighttime version of the show had a larger TV audience, so it attracted more advertisers and could offer more valuable prizes. Among the more outlandish ones were these:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A 1926 Rolls-Royce with chauffeur<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Ferris wheel<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An airplane<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A submarine<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ll take the Rolls. You can have the submarine!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What if you were a contestant on The Price Is Right, and the item put up for bid was the Lord\u2019s church? Never mind all the wholesale\/retail stuff. There is but one price to purchase the church, and it can\u2019t be expressed in dollars and cents. As a Christian, you ought to know precisely what that price is. Do you?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I regret that most people today, including a majority of religious people, would undervalue the church. In the first place, most people (incl. religious people) really don\u2019t understand what the church is. They equate it with a denomination, or a conglomeration of denominations, or with what they perceive to be a huge crowd of self-righteous hypocrites \u2013 so they place little or no value on it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus values His church highly. In fact, that\u2019s an understatement. It would be impossible to over-value the church. If you were on The Price Is Right, whatever you said was the price of the church would be either too low or exactly right. You couldn\u2019t say a price that would be higher than its actual value. Paul exhorted the elders of the church at Ephesus to take heed to themselves and to all the flock over wh\/ the Holy Spirit had made them overseers, to shepherd the church of the Lord wh\/ He purchased w\/ His own blood<\/em><\/strong> (Acts 20:28).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The church is the spiritual body of Christ. It consists not of flawlessly righteous people, but of redeemed sinners, people who have been \u201cdelivered from the power of darkness, and conveyed . . . into the kingdom of His beloved Son\u201d (Col. 1:13). In Rev. 5:9 the heavenly creatures sang praise to Jesus: \u201cYou are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, for You were slain, & have redeemed us to God by Your blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation.\u201d You know that to redeem is to buy back \u2013 so here again we see the purchase price of the church: the blood of Christ. Peter affirms this truth as well: \u201cKnowing that you were not redeemed w\/ corruptible things like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct rec\u2019d. by tradition from your fathers, but w\/ the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb w\/o blemish & w\/o spot\u201d (1 Peter 1:18f).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That Jesus valued the church enough to give His very blood to purchase it ought to get our attention! If I don\u2019t value the church, I\u2019m out of sync with the way Jesus thinks. And that means I need to change MY thinking (Jesus doesn\u2019t need to change His).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Price Is Right! The price for the church is the right price. No other price would be enough. Jesus values the church that highly. That means He values each and every one of us. I urge you to appreciate the price He paid for you, and to value the church as Christ does.<\/span><\/p>\n

–Joe Slater<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See if you recognize which game show used this line: \u201cCome on down!\u201d Yes, Johnny Olson made that his trademark, and other hosts continued to use it after he died. The original Price is Right show didn\u2019t have it. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Contestants on The Price…<\/p>\n

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