Tuesday, April 12, 2011

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.

2 comments:

Rambling Steve Appleseed said...

Greetings. I found your blog by Googling on the word Naddersby, since I intend to use it as a place name in a novel I am writing. No such place (good!) but Nadderby was suggested and a click brought me here.

I like what I have read and have bookmarked.

I am a brother Christian and my name is Stephen Hayes, most people call me Steve Hayes. Do you believe in co-incidences?

kind regards.

Rambling Steve Appleseed said...

PS Have just read your initial February 2008 post. I am the world's biggest fan of the C S Lewis science fiction trilogy, worn out 2 sets of the books. I was going to use the word Naddersby in my (CSL inspired) novel to refer to a wood near the river Nadder and had genuinely forgotten Nadderby was a place name in out of The Silent Planet.

how curious.

kindest regards.