Stuff Christians Don't Like

A few years ago, blogger Jon Acuff wrote a book called, "Stuff Christians Like." What's it about? It's exactly what it sounds like: stuff Christians like. 

In a little under 200 pages, Acuff meticulously walks you through every evangelical fad and quirk you've always noticed, but never dared to poke fun at. For example, there is the magic word we Christians use during corporate prayer to sway God's favor - 'just'.

"Lord, we just pray you will just hear us tonight. We just lift up our hands to you and just pray that you will just send your love down to us in ways we just can't understand. Take us just as we are, Lord. Just, just, just, just..." (p.52)

I bring this up, because I recently (finally!) bought the book, and it got me thinking; what stuff don't Christians like? 





Here's the list I came up with: 

1) Taking the "Christ" out of Christmas
2) Church traffic
3) Waiting past the age of 24 to get married
4) Democrats
5) Republicans
6) Faith
7) War
8) Prayer
9) Leviticus'
10) Tithing
11) Witnessing
12) People who criticized the "Passion of the Christ"
13) Fasting
14) Rap music, unless they're Christian, and ALL of their songs are about the "blood of da lamb"
15) Long Church services 

I guess you're probably wondering why 'Satan' isn't included in this list. Well, I thought that was a given. Also worth mentioning, this list has been assembled in a random order. Christians don't like war any less than they like Democrats (at least I hope...). Over the next week I'd like to pick a part a few of these. Hopefully there are a few listed you didn't anticipate - such as faith or prayer. However, in most of our lives (realistically), disciplines such as these can be our biggest pains. 

Tomorrow, PRAYER, and why we don't like it... 

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