Stuff Christians Like . . .

"Flags, handbells, and puppets."

"Boycotting stuff."

"Rooting for secret Christians on American Idol"

"Mixing sign language and music"


If you have heard any of these phrases, or even worse, if you are guilty of participating in any of these things, you are probably an Evangelical Christian (and probably a Southern Baptist), or you at least know someone who is. And if you shudder whenever you hear any of these phrases, you are probably like me - an Evangelical, Southern Baptist who is (sadly) well aware of the charicature that the American church has painted of itself to the watching world.

All of those quotes are from entries in a blog that Sarah and I love to read which takes some of the idiosynchrasies of the American "Christian" subculture and satirizes them, or at least simply brings them to our attention. It is hillarious. They are painfully true. And hopefully these observations will make us think twice next time we try to make a war-themed mens ministry, or buy more bible fanny packs, or getting highly specialized bibles, or dancing with enough room for the holy spirit, or quoting the message whenever the real bible doesnt say what you want it to, or breaking up with your girlfriend after camp because God told you to, or taking spiritual-gift inventories that are hundreds of questions long, or fearing the rapture would come before you lost your virginity, or rededicating your life (again), using the one "seminary word" you know, or making email addresses that go something like, GodisGoodandBeautiful777@yahoo.comm

Check out the blog, Stuff Christians like, at http://www.stuffchristianslike.blogspot.com/.


- Aaron

Service

This past weekend we took our youth to Whitakers, NC to join Ben (Aaron's old roommate) and his youth group in a weekend of service. It was so great to see our youth serve a couple that really needed some help. Here are a few pics from the weekend...

Shay and Christine bleached the sheds
Some of the men building steps
Mr. Gene climbed in the top of this tree to trim it away from the power line.
This was most of our group with the Snellgroves.

All of the youth on the steps after church on Sunday morning.

Updates on Dylan

Hey friends,

Please check out this blog: www.updatesondylan.blogspot.com

It is about our friends from church, the Shugart family. Dylan has been in the hospital for about 3 weeks now with some serious liver problems. This blog gives the latest updates on Dylan, Gary and Debbie so that we can better pray for them and enourage them.