I Hate All Your Show

I was catching up on my feeds, when I came across this post over at the Holy Heteroclite, which is a re-post of part of a post elsewhere, which I will in turn partially reproduce here. It's a list of vocabulary that doesn't mean what it used to:

WORD	MISUSE	USED TO MEAN
church	building, organization	gathering of friends
worship	religious concert & lecture	a life poured out, as a sacrifice
saved	guilt free pass	salvaged and put back to hard work
truth	proposition, world view	a person--Jesus
christian	religious conservative	one who loves & suffers like Jesus
preach	religious lecture	announce on the street
ministry	professional religious program	serving like a slave
apostle	spiritual superstar	expendable messenger
prophet	dead, lacking diplomacy	listens to God
pastor	religious CEO	smelly sheep tender
love	feeling or mood	sacrificial, tender care acted out

Too often a very accurate list, that I have seen in action.

Additionally, in following some links, I rediscovered Jon Foreman's song, "I Hate All Your Show" - there's a post with lyrics and a video elsewhere, I won't repeat it here. But it is an excellent song - check it out and ponder it.

I know constantly and exclusively saying what's wrong with the church and Christians isn't the way to fix things, and is easy to do. But whatever my faith ends up looking like, it will hopefully be one of doing, being, and relationships. And, most difficult for someone with pride issues like me, humility and subservience. We'll see how that goes.