History of the Trick Shot: This shot was invented by my road partner Mike Massey. After Mike, Tom “Dr. Cue” Rossman, and I did dozens of Gospel Trick Shot shows together at various billiard industry events in the early 2000’s, Mike felt inspired to come up with this fantastic shot. This shot was also featured on my life story in a made for TV documentary for the 700 Club and the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) in 2007. The show was called the “Pastor Shoots Pool – The Steve Lillis Story.”

GTS Name and Why: The shot was named because with the rack and balls setup accordingly, one can see the head (C, 4, 2 balls), outstretched arms (7 and 6 balls), and feet (8, 5, 3, and 11 balls) of Jesus on the cross. Jesus spoke seven times on the cross, and one of the phrases Jesus said was “It Is Finished.” What Jesus accomplished on the cross, through his death, burial and resurrection was all that was needed to finish the work of man’s salvation.

Scripture References in NIV Translation: John 19:30, Romans 11:6, Gala- tians 2:16, and 2 Timothy 1:9.

Cue Ball Placement: Place the cue ball approximately 4 inches from the side pocket (B) as shown.

Object Ball(s) placement: Place two balls frozen to the cue ball (2) & (4) so that the object balls will be pocket into the corner pockets (D) and (F) respectively. Place the rack in the center of the table, about 10 inches in front of the cue ball, so there is sufficient clearance for the (2) and (4) ball to travel unobstructed towards the corner pockets. Freeze two additional object balls (6) and (7) against the rack as shown so they too will travel to the corner pockets (D) and (F). Lastly, line up four additional object balls, frozen together, with the (8) frozen tightly against the front of the rack. Make sure they are lined up so they can all travel straight into the side pocket.

Objective: Hit cue ball firmly aiming straight towards the Side Pocket (E). If you hit it perfect the cue ball will bounce back into side pocket (B).