You gotta be S#@%ing Me!

I live not only to be surprised but to surprise. I love to see shocked faces, l live to hear the response “you gotta be s#@%ing me!” Let me explain. A while back a good friend of mine, who is in ministry as well, and I were at Keva Juice (a little health conscience, smoothie place and anyone who knows me knows this is right up my ally since I am so health conscience). My friend and I were in rare form that day. We were in one of those moods were you laugh at anything, your wit is sharp and quick, life was good. As we waited in line we cut one joke after another, probably annoying everyone around us, even though several of them were laughing (not sure if it was with us or at us). We got our smoothies , I got a razzamajazz or something like that, and moved on.

After visiting another store my buddy said he needed a hair cut and there was a place a couple of shops down from Keva, so in we went. Low and behold the girl who would cut his hair was the girl behind us in the smoothie line. Sometimes you feel free to act stupid because you think you will never see those people again, but here we are seeing them again. He sat down in her chair, I sat watching, and as beauticians do they talk. After making small talk about the smoothie line side show we were putting on, she asked the question all good hair dressers do…”So what do you guys do for a living?” We replied “we are ministers.” The next line out of her mouth was priceless…”you gotta be s#@%ing me! Now the stuff at Keva was funny but that takes the cake.” We spent the next few minutes trying to convince her that we were legit but she wasn’t buying it. Finally I had to go the car and pull out business cards to convince her to believe.

What’s my point? She went on to tell us that she never meet minister like us. Most of the pastors she knew were tight, dressed in a suit, older, always frowning, preachy, judgmental, etc… She said you guys don’t fit the mold. We weren’t dressed the part or acting the part at all. It wasn’t that we were doing or acting immoral and didn’t fit the mold. It was that we seemed and conducted ourselves as if we were real people. I live for that reaction! Because if I can seem real and I can seem approachable then I have the chance to make an impact. Jesus warned us about appearing churchy or religious but having nothing to offer (Matt. 23:23ff). Strive to be real today, strive to surprise someone in a good way that you are a Christian. The best sermons that preach and penetrate into the hearts of people are not the ones you hear on Sunday but the ones YOU live out through the week.


At the end of the day God is still God and He is good!