Presby-Musings

Jonathan Acuff has proven that imitation is the highest form of getting published.  Acuff, a Christian blogger and marketer launched the blog " Stuff Christians Like " a couple of years ago, shamelessly using a formula created by Christian Lander who launched a blog entitled " Stuff White People Like ." Lander soon published a book after his blog took off and became the place to go on the old Internet.  Jonathan Acuff got the same chance once his blog took off in the Christian version of the old Internet, which is essentially the same Internet, only less so.  Stuff Christians Like is pretty dang funny.  In fact, I laughed out loud as I read it... a lot.  And as my wife is fond of pointing out--it takes a lot to make me laugh.  I especially like humor that makes fun of Christians.  You'd think that being a Christian would sort of temper my desire to poke fun at them.  It doesn't.  We take ourselves way too seriously.  Acuff's book...

I did something this past week that has felled lesser ministers.  I changed the worship bulletin. For those pastors out there reading this, I could very nearly hear your audible gasp. And right now your stomach is probably doing flips just to imagine what it would be like to do this in your own church.  But you've wanted to, haven't you?  You've hated it... that thing.   You know... That thing that you produce each week that is full of liberally and randomly used Microsoft Clip Art...  That thing that you produce that makes the Earth weep each time you run it because of all the trees that died in order to promote the Men's Prayer Breakfast...  That thing that has more inserts than a newspaper on Black Friday...  You want to change it, don't you? Now for those of you non-church-y type folk who might be reading this, I know what you are saying.  "Huh?" Exactly.  There are certain things that church-y people do and say that sho...