The Divine Crash

Most people who call themselves christians really get on my nerves.  Not all christians, some are sold-out bona-fide Christians who love Jesus more than anything else. Yet, most who call themselves followers of Jesus do three main things that bother me.

Maybe this is why I am a pastor so I can put an end to these things?

The first thing that really bothers me about most Christians is rampant ”used to be-ism” disguised as religion.

I’m not even talking about tradition in the church.  I am convinced that some tradition is good and helps hold the community together. However, there comes a point when what holds the community together keeps the community from sharing the gospel of Jesus.   When followers of Jesus try to keep everything the way “it used to be” they will eventually end up as slaves back in Egypt.

The second thing that bothers me about most christians (again not all but a strong majority) is a strong lack of originality.  Christians in their attempt at being ”hip and with-it” among their non-Christian friends design clothing that is a rip-off of popular non-Christian things. Instead of using our talents and abilities that God gave us we steal music from the secular world and change the words under the guise of “sparking conversation”  We take T-shirt and instead of saying “subway” we put “hisway” hoping that maybe someone, somewhere will ask us what that means?  Christians have ripped off Facebook, myspace, music, food, all in an attempt to look just like the world that we aren’t supposed to look like?

Lastly, is that Christians are notoriously bad tippers.  It has been well documented on several blogs both Christian and not that those who follow Jesus do not tip well when they go out to eat.  They will leave a tract or very little but if Christians have an eternal wealth then shouldn’t they be the greatest tippers ever? Restaurant servers should not be afraid to work on Sunday and it should not matter if we receive bad service because we do not know why we get bad service.

I think that if most Christians were able to remember that the past does not govern the future because the future is determined by the God who created the universe then perhaps we would be better tippers and more original and we not suffer from “used to be-itis.”

Or maybe I’m wrong and maybe it’s okay that on any given sunday people claim to follow Jesus while wearing cheap knock off clothes and offending waiters and waitresses all over after having just left a church where the only thing they know about the visitors is that they sat in the wrong seat?

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