Best quotes from this afternoon at SWBC.
"That's the second time I've exposed myself today"
You should have seen people's faces!
In the midst of bragging about celebrities people know/have met, our dear friend shrugged in a kind of 'is this the kind of thing you're after?' way:
"Well my adoped Dad is.....God". The ultimate trump.
"I'm a Meyers-Briggs 'T'... On a good day I have no feelings."
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Indescribable
We were singing Chris Tomlin's Indescribable yesterday in morning prayers. Mostly a very good song. But I have a problem with the first line of the second verse:
"Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go?"
We were discussing the song afterwards, and someone pointed out that they weren't entirely comfortable with some of the lyrics. Being in a very bad mood, I blurted out my thoughts in not quite the way I meant:
"I know! - What idiot wrote that line?"
only to be told by my Principal (complete with waving Bible)
"That idiot was Job", causing much laughter.
OK, so I accept it was funny, but I was trying to make a serious point. Of all the wonderful descriptions of God in Job, why pick that one bit of imagrey which is so fundamentally unhelpful in our culture? It just confirms the "behave yourself or God's going to zap you with a lightening bolt from his finger" image, like He's some mean twin of the God of the Lotto, who points his finger to announce "It could be you!" winning the millions.
Is it just me? I've thought a bit about trying to find an alternative line that works - any suggestions?
"Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go?"
We were discussing the song afterwards, and someone pointed out that they weren't entirely comfortable with some of the lyrics. Being in a very bad mood, I blurted out my thoughts in not quite the way I meant:
"I know! - What idiot wrote that line?"
only to be told by my Principal (complete with waving Bible)
"That idiot was Job", causing much laughter.
OK, so I accept it was funny, but I was trying to make a serious point. Of all the wonderful descriptions of God in Job, why pick that one bit of imagrey which is so fundamentally unhelpful in our culture? It just confirms the "behave yourself or God's going to zap you with a lightening bolt from his finger" image, like He's some mean twin of the God of the Lotto, who points his finger to announce "It could be you!" winning the millions.
Is it just me? I've thought a bit about trying to find an alternative line that works - any suggestions?
Monday, 2 February 2009
Religious Buses
Baptist Bookworm has posted about the atheist bus adverts, and highlighting the Bus Slogan Generator. Thanks for that! Here's my own contribution:
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