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Chuck Norris, Puritans, and OSU

By Ryan, September 16, 2006

You might be a huge Chuck Norris fan if your fantasy football team is named the Delta Force. You might be a little too much of a Chuck Norris fan if all you want for Christmas is the first season of Walker, Texas Ranger on DVD. You’re probably way too much of a Chuck Norris fan if you feel that your time on the bus is best spent telling Chuck Norris jokes to your friend. And telling your bus driver to “have a Chuck Norris weekend” is extreme for the extreme.

Augh, all of that applies to me... and I’m proud of it.

Many “facts” about Chuck Norris portray him as a deity, while others portray him as someone who’s always ticked off. Although they’re just jokes, is it possible that this is how people see God? In English the other day, we read a writing from a Puritan preacher who said that the mouth of hell is gaping wide open ready to devour us, and the only thing keeping us from falling in is the mere pleasure of God.

Now, Puritans will be Puritans, but really... if fellow Christians (from 400 years ago) believed that God is constantly angry at us like Terrell Owens at Donovan McNabb, then what’s to stop non-Christians from believing the same? The image of church to non-churchgoers is getting worse and worse. Even I wouldn’t be a Christian if I was raised to believe that God was out to get me. Nor would I enjoy church if all it was was hymn after hymn after hymn! I mean, our old worship director put a Texas twang on “Victory In Jesus,” which wasn’t bad at all, and we also sing “Solid Rock” occasionally. But other than that, it’s all contemporary. And how about us, the church people? What do we make church look like to others? A kid once decided not to like me because of my OSU hat. I asked him why, and he said that it was because of something unkind that another person did to him while wearing an OSU shirt. I don’t blame that kid one bit for hating Oklahoma State!

In a nutshell, I think that there is much that needs to be done in order to reach the unsaved among us. And, as many times as you’ve probably heard this cliché, it starts with us. Those WWJD bracelets are already past their season, but still... think about that before you act, because we might be the only Jesus someone will ever see. I know that it doesn’t mean as much to someone who hasn’t had their favorite college shunned by a 10-year-old from Arlington, but you gotta hear me out on this!

I think that my “nutshell” paragraph may have been longer than my first three, but oh well.

Labels: Gems, Influences

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 Ryan:

For those of you keeping score at home, this is my first post to come after midnight since August 5th, breaking my streak of 6-in-a-row. This is also my 8th post since Justin last updated this blog on August 4th.

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