All Cheese, No Wine

 

 

 

 

 

Confession:   Sometimes I am embarrassed to be a Christian.

None of these sayings are untrue, per se, but do we really believe that anyone is won to Christ by guilting them into reading the "instruction manual" or made them feel bad for "taking God for granted"?   Or, do lightbulbs suddenly pop up over someone's head when we remind them how Christmas is spelled?    Can we really reduce our radical faith to platitudes?

It's not just little pictures and sayings, but it shows up in our bumper stickers, our clothes, our music, our books.   It's almost like we feel we have to counter culture by creating our own culture/world and then show it off.    And because we've created such a good world, people are flocking to us, right?

I'm not saying that Christian music, t-shirts and bumper stickers are bad.   I'm just wondering if we have a clue about how our "message" is being perceived.    Why do we feel like we have to talk so much?    What if we lived our faith so radically that our message was clear without words?

Why do we have so much cheese, if we're not allowed to drink wine?

Pictures courtesy of a yahoo search for "christian sayings".