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Life comes at you fast…

Have ever seen the insurance commercial where some guy is trying figure out what a light switch does in his house and the garage door two houses down is going up and down, up and down, up and down on some lady’s car, as his flips the switch, then the voice over says, “Life comes at you fast”?  The guy asks his wife to look and see if any thing changes in the house while he is hitting the switch – and she just sits outside his view reading a magazine saying, “nothing, nope, I don’t see anything”.  Some days I relate this guy – having some switch in my life that I have no idea what it does, and no one is helping me to figure it out.  Today I feel like the old lady down the street.

My life is getting slammed over and over and with no apparent cause.  I just know that some guy two houses up is saying, “Anything yet honey?”.  Nope, nothing yet…  Look lady,  just get up and help the guy – we’ll all be happier for it.

BTW – TV Fast is still going strong.  I’m catching up on my reading. More on that later…

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I SLAP’ed Santa!

OK – Before you get all worked up, I didn’t physically attack Santa, but I did SLAP him.  Let me explain – do you remember the “Pay It Forward” movie with the concept of paying good deeds ‘forward’ to strangers rather than ‘back’ to your friends or family?  Well ‘SLAP It Forward’ is based on the same idea.

Social Liability for Actions in Public (SLAP) is based on the idea that although we have the right to act like jerks in public, it cannot be without consequence.  The next time you see someone acting like an idiot in public, SLAP ’em!  Call them out on it; let them know its not OK to act that way.  I know people say you can’t do that now-a-days because you could get shot, but I say the fact that we don’t hold people accountable for their actions is why you could get shot.  I’m going to be part of the solution, not part of the problem – I SLAP’ed Santa!

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Did He Just Say That?

So, I’m in the car (I should have been on my bike, but I’ll save that for another post) and I’m listening to Christian radio.  There is a preacher on and although I didn’t catch what he was preaching on, I did hear him say:

“We must be consistent on a regular basis“

WHAT? I thought, sure – we really shouldn’t be consistent on an irregular basis.  This thought really tickled my funny bone until I stopped laughing long enough to consider what I was laughing about. 

Its late (about 1:15 in the morning) and I haven’t typed out all my thoughts on the state of Christian outreach.  I’ll assume the preacher on this station is a good man and that he simply had a ‘GWBush’ moment.  But the moment on the radio underscored my impression of our efforts to reach the ‘lost’.  We don’t sound intelligent, we don’t sound like we understand the message we preach. 

I hear TV preachers and radio preachers and it seems to me that most of the time dedicated to christian media outreaches is spent raising funds so we can be on TV or Radio.  We fundraise so we can continue to pay for our fundraising activities.  I know this has little to do with a preacher that misspoke on a radio program…