How to Avoid Making a Difference - [Tim]
Bob: Let me tell you something. This culture that we live in is vile, full of all kinds of despicable wickedness! We must take a stand for the truth! Jesus wants us to take a stand for Him - against the sex and violence and laziness in this country!
Kim: So, I'm supposed to take a stand? What's that?
Bob: Well, you know - it's a stand! It's where you join with all of us Christians in our stand against sin!
Kim: Well, you're not really helping - how do I take a stand?
Bob: Well, you have to renounce all that is evil in your life! You must be pure and take this stand against evil with us! You must join our shouts against this vile culture ruled by Hollywood and MTV!
Kim: So this stand, it's like a bunch of Christians standing together?
Bob: Well, um, it could be. You want to get more people to make a stand with you? That's even better!
Kim: Hmmm. So what does it actually accomplish?
Bob: What do you mean what does it accomplish? How can you even ask that? It's a stand! For crying out loud, if you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything! We have to let the world know how wrong they are!
Kim: Ah, so taking a stand is telling other people they are wrong?
Bob: Exactly!
Kim: Doesn't that make them angry or sad? I mean, having a bunch of people telling someone they are wrong - don't you think they make that person feel pretty bad?
Bob: They should feel bad! They are sooooo wicked and corrupt! We have to take a stand against them!
Kim: Uh, you're confusing me, the stand is now against people? I thought we were taking a stand against evil? Doesn't the Bible say something about our struggle not being against other people?
Bob: Who told you that? Of course it's against people - those evil movie makers promoting their queer agenda! Those politicians trying to let murder go unpunished! Those evolutionists devaluing humanity! We have to stand against them! We have to scream from the mountaintops that this world is wicked!
Kim: That doesn't even make any sense. How does making a stand actually do anything other than make you hoarse?
Bob: It's a stand! Jesus said that if you're ashamed of Him now, He'll be ashamed of you when you get to heaven - if you even get there!
Kim: So let me get this straight - you're saying that if I don't join with you and yell at people for what they're doing wrong that I'm ashamed of Jesus?
Bob: It's not yelling at people - it's taking a stand! I think you're trying to trouble me - you must be a messenger of the enemy!
Kim: What? Just because I'm trying to understand what this stand will actually do I'm a messenger of the enemy?
Bob: That's right! Why would Jesus be making you so confused? You must have some sin in your life!!!
Kim: Whatever, doesn't the Bible say something about all of us being sinners - you included? And I just can't understand how this stand actually helps anybody...seems to me to be a mighty fine way of avoiding actually doing anything substantial!
Bob: Get behind me satan! You must not even be a Christian! And with that attitude, I don't think you'll ever become one either! Now go away so I can find some real Christians to stand with me!!!!
Kim: Sigh. No wonder people hate us.
Kim: So, I'm supposed to take a stand? What's that?
Bob: Well, you know - it's a stand! It's where you join with all of us Christians in our stand against sin!
Kim: Well, you're not really helping - how do I take a stand?
Bob: Well, you have to renounce all that is evil in your life! You must be pure and take this stand against evil with us! You must join our shouts against this vile culture ruled by Hollywood and MTV!
Kim: So this stand, it's like a bunch of Christians standing together?
Bob: Well, um, it could be. You want to get more people to make a stand with you? That's even better!
Kim: Hmmm. So what does it actually accomplish?
Bob: What do you mean what does it accomplish? How can you even ask that? It's a stand! For crying out loud, if you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything! We have to let the world know how wrong they are!
Kim: Ah, so taking a stand is telling other people they are wrong?
Bob: Exactly!
Kim: Doesn't that make them angry or sad? I mean, having a bunch of people telling someone they are wrong - don't you think they make that person feel pretty bad?
Bob: They should feel bad! They are sooooo wicked and corrupt! We have to take a stand against them!
Kim: Uh, you're confusing me, the stand is now against people? I thought we were taking a stand against evil? Doesn't the Bible say something about our struggle not being against other people?
Bob: Who told you that? Of course it's against people - those evil movie makers promoting their queer agenda! Those politicians trying to let murder go unpunished! Those evolutionists devaluing humanity! We have to stand against them! We have to scream from the mountaintops that this world is wicked!
Kim: That doesn't even make any sense. How does making a stand actually do anything other than make you hoarse?
Bob: It's a stand! Jesus said that if you're ashamed of Him now, He'll be ashamed of you when you get to heaven - if you even get there!
Kim: So let me get this straight - you're saying that if I don't join with you and yell at people for what they're doing wrong that I'm ashamed of Jesus?
Bob: It's not yelling at people - it's taking a stand! I think you're trying to trouble me - you must be a messenger of the enemy!
Kim: What? Just because I'm trying to understand what this stand will actually do I'm a messenger of the enemy?
Bob: That's right! Why would Jesus be making you so confused? You must have some sin in your life!!!
Kim: Whatever, doesn't the Bible say something about all of us being sinners - you included? And I just can't understand how this stand actually helps anybody...seems to me to be a mighty fine way of avoiding actually doing anything substantial!
Bob: Get behind me satan! You must not even be a Christian! And with that attitude, I don't think you'll ever become one either! Now go away so I can find some real Christians to stand with me!!!!
Kim: Sigh. No wonder people hate us.
posted by Etcetera at 5:07 PM
3 Comments:
wow. wish i'd written that. good stuff, timbo.
i smelled the coffee and laughed, with nausea in my gut. the truth is often funny when it smells and spells foul. it hits right in the gut of the ones that get it, but is offensive to others. i wish this great illustration would land in church flyers. let them hear who hears. keep it going, tim.
Ouch.
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