When it comes to teaching a spiritual lesson, Joe Shultz says there is nothing better than using a puppet, magic and maybe a yo-yo or two to get people interested in his message.
People tend to remember eight times as much when they see and hear rather than what they just hear.
During the Dark Ages, when the majority of people couldn't read the Bible, morality plays were often used, as were clowns and magic tricks, to teach spiritual principles. It allows you to communicate things you wouldn't dare say out loud. It has an automatic appeal to teen-agers. Using ventriloquism, I can appear six minutes as a professional entertainer and then spend the next 45 minutes talking to them as to why they should be sexually inactive. If it is done well, you don't insult people's intelligence.