I have an email list of my clients that I regularly send email blasts too. I usually include a funny picture with my email as well as technical tips and special pricing notification. My clients have come to enjoy my humerous approach to sales. Well I think I might have crossed the boundaries of good taste. I received a phone call from one concerned client. She was offended. I appologized for my insult in her eyes. I then sent her an email apology explaining that I was actually a Christian and meant no harm. I asked for her to forgive me. I have not had a response yet. Here is what I posted.......Go ahead...tell me how you feel.
In this age of mobility, the all new Easter Phone brings a whole new meaning to
“pick up your cross and follow me” The only thing I would suggest is if your phone rings
And the Call Display Picture comes up looking like this….you’d better listen!
“pick up your cross and follow me” The only thing I would suggest is if your phone rings
And the Call Display Picture comes up looking like this….you’d better listen!
I then discussed some business stuff and finished up with....
So there you have it……
ring ring
Oh oh its you know who on the cross phone!...gtg
ring ring
Oh oh its you know who on the cross phone!...gtg
Oh My...what a hornets nest! One client was quick to email saying that it didnt offend him but he would advise me NOT to do one on Mohamed!
Humour is sometimes an under-appreciated art form.
ReplyDeleteBut under the heading of, "Things that make you go hmmmm..." I'll throw up this little ditty.
Why do we think Jesus looked like this?
I loved the movie National Treasure starring Nicholas Cage. It was an elaborate story of mystery and adventure where an unimaginable treasure of knowledge and riches awaited the diligent seeker who could decipher the clues.
And I guess that it's this love of adventure and mystery and the knowledge to be gained by finding hidden treasure that attracts me to the bible where the imagination of God to create a good mystery is infinitely more intricate than what man can imagine. The same can be said of the treasure. Sometimes the treasure is in plain sight, but sometimes it's hidden and has to be dug up.
We know that all scripture is inspired by the Holy Spirit but what we sometimes overlook are those seemingly insignificant scriptures. Again, we believe that if it makes its way to the pages of our bible, God thought it important to include it. And we judge for ourselves how important it to be. But, how often do we gloss over those words that tweek at the back of our minds only to be put out of our thoughts before we even formulate a question? Our rationalization for not digging deeper says, "I know there's a question to be asked here, but there are so many questions everywhere it would simply pull me in too many directions, I'd lose focus." So we're often pretty quick to accept the very first plausible answer thrown on the table so that we can happily move on.
But, it's sometimes these questions that lead us to buried treasure. By ignoring these questions are we ignoring the prodding of the Holy Spirit to "seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you"? And if we ignore the prodding of the Holy Spirit, does it get easier to ignore the next time?
Long ramble...sorry. While I believe those are good quesions, they're not the ones I was planning to ask. Here's my question.
In Paul's letter to the Corinthians he makes the statement in 1 Corinthians 11:14 "Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him"
Didn't Paul know that Jesus had long hair?
Hey! I just came across a quote from Golda Meir (don't ask me why I was reading a list of quotes she made) that just had me laughing out loud and I had to share it!
ReplyDeleteShe said, "Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! "
Isn't that funny?!!!
I have an email (somewhere?) about if only we used our Bible like a cell phone as in took it out when we needed help, someone to talk to especially for advice etc. So the idea of that pic doesn't offend me but rather I find it funny. But gee, is that because I like Don and get him...now there's a hmmm...
ReplyDeleteAnd about Jesus' looks, I think it's as simple as God made us in His image, He is ominepresent so why can't He look like everyone? But really, what does it matter what He looks like. I figure when I get to heaven I'm not going to recognize him by his appearance (which I tend to think is long hair, black jeans, black shirt - totally cool because He is) but by the love that emanates from him. And I sure won't care a whit what His appearance is either.
Hmmm...long hair, black jeans, black shirt. I know it's a tongue in cheek response...proves you have a wonderful sense of humour too. As for Don's humour? Love it and him to death. I wish there were more Don's (and Wendy's) in the world!!!
ReplyDeleteBut is there no lesson here in how much of what we believe comes from things outside of the bible God inspired? That what is taught to our children in Sunday school is misleading? That things we blindly accept obscure instead of clarify? Is it blind faith? Or is it faith that's made us blind?
I think that Jesus had short hair while we was alive and walked the earth and that Paul knew it when he wrote his rebuke to the church in Corinth. I think that the image of Jesus carved in wood nailed to a cross adorning so many churches around the world and depicted in so many pictures thrust in front of our kids every Sunday isn't Jesus at all.
As for what Jesus probably looks like now, John tells us in Revelation 1...
13 – and in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash.
14 – His head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire.
15 – His feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters.
What does he look like? I agree, such small potatos that they're hardly potatos at all. But how many times have we fallen back on the "Who cares, Jesus is love" statement in response to the things in our bible that contradict what we've been taught and have come to accept as truth? And are all such contradictions small potatos?
I see both sides to this. I'm with wanderingwendy in wondering if it matters what he looks like.YET, I totally agree with rink rat when he recounts how so much of this stuff is man made. As I consider the "traditional" appearance of Jesus it really makes me wonder. We cling to this "handsome" picture because we can relate to that and we have become accustomed to it. We come to accept this picture, even though it is probably wrong. Who decided????? I think that that is at the heart of many of these debates. I too wonder how much we consider to be "gospel truth" that really is not. The picture of Jesus painted in Revelation is not something that I could relate to, so for convenience sake, I have accepted a different picture of Christ.
ReplyDeleteHow does any feel about Isaiah's description of the suffering servant seen below. Many of us have come to accept that the suffering servant was Christ. Is it good eneough to say that He was disfigured because of the beating He took? Pay close attention to the wording of the passage and the use of past tense and future tense.
What do you think?
13 See, my servant will act wisely [b] ;
he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.
14 Just as there were many who were appalled at him [c]—
his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man
and his form marred beyond human likeness—
15 so will he sprinkle many nations, [d]
and kings will shut their mouths because of him.
For what they were not told, they will see,
and what they have not heard, they will understand.