I imagine very few people in heaven will be there because they saw this car:
In fact, there might be a few missing for that reason. Christians have one message: Jesus, God of the Universe, died for sins, rose again, and is now seated at the right hand of the father; so turn from your sins and receive forgiveness and eternal life.
Don’t let other messages get in the way:
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“there might be a few missing for that reason”
I disagree. Those the father has called will come. I don’t think human stupidity will thwart His plans for the elect.
Though, I agree that some of those stickers are absolutely ridiculous and offensive.
I agree with you, Hayesy. For obvious reasons I don’t think the father calls anyone, so for your purposes it is necessary to get human stupidity (like that car) out of the way of your message or it will cost you converts.
Yeah thanks Michelle, I agree with you. I think that line is best taken as hyperbole for effect. (probably shouldn’t have started with ‘In fact’ in that case…. haha)
Oh! Also: we’re out of coffee. May I please claim a bag of your excellent roast on Sunday?
And thanks SmartLX, always love having you around
I will respond to your last comment btw, and that’s a promise!
I was considering cutting my hair for this reason…people kept coming up to me and asking if I was a Christian. I suspected that it was because my hair is inordinately long…
And because I hate having peripheral stuff like hair getting confused with Christianity, I was going to cut it.
Then I sat down and thought logically about it – if it means that people come up to me and ask me a Christian, why not? – not only do I have the opportunity to point out that hair is irrelevant to Christianity, but I have an opportunity to point out that Jesus *is*. And *I* am not confusing the two, nor am I doing anything that should encourage anyone to do so. (In some cases, it’s like saying Christians should stop drinking coffee because that could encourage non-Christians to confuse Christianity and coffee – I’ve actually heard people suggest total caffeine abstinence for that very reason!)
The problem comes, however, when Christians confuse two almost totally unrelated things. The way that the owner of that car has juxtapositioned those signs certainly would indicate that he thinks that loving Jesus and loving his brand of politics are one and the same thing. He (or she) certainly seems to *hope* that people confuse Jesus and George Bush/John McCain.
So, I suppose there’s a balance between doing peripheral things without shame – I’m certainly not ashamed that I wear long hair or that every Christian I know drinks coffee – and doing them in such a way that non-Christians are giving encouragement to confuse two non-related things.
To clarify that last sentence…of course *everything* is related to Jesus somehow. Perhaps it would better read “to confuse the one thing with some silly detail”.
I want to key that car so bad…