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Congregation of 300 people. >> stop laughing, all right? man. >> and then by thousands around the world when his blooper goes viral. >> i hope this isn't on videotape, because i'm -- i'll have no job now. >> blake bergstrom gets flustered while sharing the biblical of abraham and his nephew, lot, with a large youth group in colorado where he had been a youth pastor for only two
Is he going to have a job tomorrow? and i think i sat there with my hand over my mouth like, oh, my goodness, this really happened. this is happening. it really happened. i think i was a bit in shock. >> but their shock turns to relief when laughter fills the church. >> then i saw everybody laughing, the parents laughing, and it was like, okay, this is -- it's going to be okay. this is funny. this is just funny. there's nothing you can do about it. >> blake's popularity among his youth group soars. >> at that ministry after that happened, my teenagers started putting it on their ipods and they...
School, they're showing it to their friends like, dude, you've got to meet my pastor. this is hilarious. this is what he said. >> and he becomes "that guy on youtube" in christian circles. brian deshawn interviewed blake for a pastor job at nashville's cross point church. >> at the time, i had no idea he was that guy, had no idea blake bergstrom was that guy on youtube. so i had this great conversation with him. a couple days later, we had a meeting and they explained. i was like, oh, my gosh, that was him. that was the guy? >> but blake says his ability to laugh at himself after his embarrass...
Chose to go pinch his -- >> his embarrassing moment is witnessed first by his congregation of 300 people. >> stop laughing, all right? man. >> and then by thousands around the world when his blooper goes viral. >> i hope this isn't on videotape because i'm -- i'll have no job now. >> blake bergstrom gets flustered while sharing a biblical story of abraham and his nephew, lot, with a large youth group at a church in colorado where he had been a youth pastor for only two months. >> pinch his -- is what i said. and you heard nothing else here. >> lot said, i want the green land that's plush. the ...
>> the very moment that those words came out of his mouth -- >> to go pinch his -- excuse me. >> a million thoughts went through my mind like did he really just say that? he really just said that. is he going to have a job tomorrow? and i think i sat there with my hand over my mouth like, oh, my goodness, this really happened. this is happening. it really happened. i think i was a bit in shock. >> but their shock turns to relief when laughter fills the church. >> then i saw everybody laughing, the parents laughing, and it was like, okay, this is -- it's going to be okay. this is funny. this is...