![]() Instead, we have Marc Oehler, the pastor and head of staff at the hottest church in Bergen County, West Side Presbyterian. Anyway, I knew I had to discuss the song with my pastor from when I was a teenager … the honorable Joel Osteen. (The lyrics were so subtle, in fact, Ernest Angley genuinely thought it put him in a great light.) Weirdly, in recent months, I’ve refound “Jesus,” putting it in constant Genesis rotation alongside the likes of “Invisible Touch” and “Follow You Follow Me.” I don’t know if it’s the way Collins snarks “He knows I’m right” or how Banks’s synths glide over each verse like a slow-moving rowboat, but the whole production is an earworm, especially when accompanied with its visually witty music video. Released in October 1991 during the band’s We Can’t Dance era, the track isn’t Psalms-y as much as it is a brutal skewering of the televangelist movement with Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks unleashing their inner heathens at the false prophets who plague small-screen America for money. ![]() “Jesus He Knows Me” isn’t really in the upper echelon of Genesis hits.
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