I knew I shouldn’t have listened to Christian radio…but I did
I was in the Orlando area last week for some work and had a rental car….going through the stations and I stopped on a station mid-song and i knew….it was the local Christian radio station.
The song they were playing was followed with one of those sentinmental grunts as they introduced the couple the song was about.
Get ready for this……
This couple, tragically, had a child they knew would die as soon as they had it. Her name was Audry….i couldn’t imagine that. Basically they picked her grave plot before she gave birth to her. The song was about her road to recovery, etc. Sad story and sounds they have worked through some things….BUT here is where my mouth dropped at the craziness that spewed out of their mouths.
In summary;
The host asked ‘how are you making it through’
Statement 1:
She proceeded to say - the comfort of knowing that I will be with her again. That after she dies (mother) I hope to hear ‘well done good and faithful servant and then I am going to ask ‘Where is she?’.
So she is saying right after ‘she gets in’ she is going to go look for her daughter and what gives her solice in this life is the thought of spending eternity with her daughter. Wow is this not the gospel in the slightest.
Statement 2:
Host: So this put’s stress on couples and so many end in divorce…how did y’all make it through?
Her: Because our faith was strong and…… diamonds. (mild laugh)
Yes you read that right…diamonds. She was joking, but not really kind of joking. Literally she mentioned diamonds.
Statement 3:
She urged listeners to face the pain and suffering (agree) and that you can know you will see your loved ones in Heaven that you have tragically lost…that will ease your pain (DIS-agree). All summarized but that was the jist.
In summary;
- That was my once every 5 or so years stint of listening to Christian Radio
- If you hear this tenet taught at Church question it’s validity via looking at scripture
Finally a photo I can share without ridicule. Windows gives me the family nature never could -starting at :18
These words should alarm us as we post ‘pretty pictures’ to Facebook to share a life we want people to think we are living.
Stop fooling yourself with your Facebook status updates and profile pictures. It’s tired and so are you. rest.
Baking Cakes & getting $#!^ done at work!
Ever bake a cake? Ever bake a cake with people?
Certain projects are like baking cakes.
The more people the more complicated it gets. When baking a cake with people you have to learn, organize, communicate, organize, communicate, then do. And most likely repeat some parts of that process.
Some things in business are more like cakes than they are like these ‘scalable systems’ that we are always striving for. In the end your guests won’t be able to tell if the cake was made by one or by many. And when looking at internal costs it will be far cheaper to let a baker go solo on their effort. May take a little longer, but in the end less time/$ spent as a whole.
But what happens if that baker quits or gets hit by a preverbal bus? It’s a cake…not a 5 course meal with fancy sauces. Some projects are like potluck dinners (collaborative) or like a cafeteria line (assembly line style). The worst thing we can do is apply ‘potluck mentality’ on the whole of our projects. Perhaps thats why we have so many meetings.
What now? another christian or leadership conference
another conference?
another awakening?
another emotional moment?
another pep rally for Jesus or leadership meeting?
really. is that what you need? is that what I need?
no.
i feel a tension living in Atlanta and half the christians I know are addicted to these conferences and some build their lively hood around them. the tension increases because i like the people that work for these meetings/conferences. However i find a growing irritation with the productization of ‘christian experiences’ in a context (coupled with mediums) that does not lead (as a normative experience) to life change and/or life ____fill in the blank___. Am I the only one?
#FeelLikeAnAss
Would it be honest to believe what you thought to be false?
Would you rather believe a lie that made you happy or the truth even if it made you unhappy?
“A CW Lewis-ism
I was just enlightened that the whole Narnia series is not meant to be an allegory…but a ‘what if’ story, a thought experiment. What if Christ came as a lion to a made up land, Narnia, and how would that story go down. Thanks Peter Kreeft for giving me some sense where I lacked. As Kreeft states: “the Narnia series is an imaginative supposition.” A great way to put it.
I am not sure if I thought of the difference between an allegory and a ‘thought experiment’ but I should have. I have misled many and told them the Narnia series is an allegory.
