he was getting pretty colorful , and the people were working themselves up into a lather of jesus-save-mes and lord- take-me-nows ( though i dont think they meant that literally , like that they wanted to actually be snatched up right at that moment , but more figuratively , like they wanted the lord to accept them and take as they was right then , so they wouldnt have to go through the inconvenience of missing out on sunday brunch at howies barbeque pit over on jeb stuart road ) .