I've finally decided to start blogging for real.. and to see how long I would be able to keep this up..

I'm currently reading this book called "Lucas on Life".. which I'm sure many people are familiar with.. It is simply hillarious!! And I personally feel that it is able to accurately capture my own sentiments about some specific areas of christian life.. yah.. its like someone else ranting for me!!

Anyways.. the rant to day is about these christians which are always so up-tight.. like they've perpetutally got something stuffed up their #$%&! You know the kind I'm talking about.. Those who always have to do things a particular way.. hav to speak in a particular way (using christian buzz words or fitting a biblical ref in every other sentence).. u know.. the "God willing.." "Testimony" "stewardship" etc etc.. To me its not only unnecessary.. but its completely unnatural.. Furthermore, it sounds either that the speaker is ultra-spiritual, or that everyone else is somewhat spiritually inferior (u know the holier-than-thou thing)..

I think they are trying way to hard..

To me, hearing that kinda speech on a regular basis is kinda like hearing someone punctuate every sentence with expletives! I know its sounds like a rather extreme and distant analogy, but what I mean is that for me, even as a christian, I find it extremely annoying to talk to someone who puts in a biblical reference/phrase/buzz word in every other sentence that comes out of his/her mouth! And that this annoyance is the same one i experience when I hear someone put in an expletive into every other sentence which he utters..

Anyways.. getting back to the book.. I like the way Lucas describes these kinda people in his book..

Under the chapter "Hooray for Sue!" he says..

'I am really offended!'

If I had a pound coin for every time I've heard a Christian use the 'O' word, I'd weigh a ton. Some believers have a fantastic capacity to be offended. They are the ones everyone else in the church describes as 'prickly', 'sensitive', 'awkward', or 'difficult'. You can always hear the crunch crunch of eggshells being walked on when people get around them. It doesn't take much to irritate them. I met four 'black belt' offended types recently. They were old ladies, and they were upset with me, that they stomped out of the Sunday evening church meeting, before I'd even started preaching. I had notcied that, five rows back, there was a lot of muttering, sniffing, narrowing of eyes, and then finally the march of the haughty four. So why the quadruple walkout? I later learned that my sin was that I had invited the congregation to take a few pre-sermon moments to say hello to each other. Apparently, this particular church didn't include the saying of hello in its vision statement, hence the huffy puffy walkout. The pastor was a warm-hearted, compassionate shepherd, who was eager to visit the retiring sisters to restore them as lost sheep to the flock. I admire him. I was inclined towards a lamb kebab with heaps of mint sauce. Easily offended people bore me..