The Compleat Guide

I thought I'd better get this down somewhere besides the notes in my office. After a decade or so of telling folks I really needed to get a T-shirt deal - since I had condensed my rules for life down to 2 lines - I think I'd better get to it for real. I'll tell you why after I share the rules.

The Complete Set of Guidelines

for

Living as a Member of the Kingdom of God

1. Remember Jesus is Lord.

2. Don't be a jerk.

Years ago I wrote (but did not publish) a Chorus named "Remember" - built around the line "Remember who you are" - Within a year someone warned me that Disney was also featuring those words in "The Lion King" - Disney, for crying out loud - I couldn't go up against DISNEY - (actually the folks at Disney have been great and have hardly trespassed on the area of Worship choruses at all, so kudos to the boys in legal).

Fast-forward to this week, when a religious group suggested some 'guidelines' that I suspect were intended as snarky ('cause snarky is very big with the young folks now). There was some intellectual congruency between their list & mine (even though they couldn't get Life handled without a third line).

HERE'S THE THING - When I came up with the guidelines above, I meant it. In succeeding years just about everything I've lived or observed has been covered by these two lines:

1. Remember Jesus is Lord.

2. Don't be a jerk.

Most misbehavior by Christians - on the Left or the Right for that matter - could have been avoided by a strict observance of the guidelines (with a special emphasis on not violating Rule #2). Look for the T-shirt soon.