Jesus, please protect me from SOME of your followers!

Wow... Where to even begin this blog...

I began my day with a voicemail from an irate client - who (for the record) does not know me. We have never met, and we have never spoken on the phone. The voicemail droned on for about 30 seconds and ended with, "someone better call me - right F*@#ING NOW!" I laugh, go meet with my boss who lets me know he's already gotten to her and that this is his standard means of communication. (NICE!) Standard means of communicating... In a business setting!!

A few hours later I get a voicemail on my personal cell phone from a self employed aquaintence that I was trying to contact to send some business her way. As she's leaving me a voicemail she is yelling at someone else and using some rather colorful language that also included a quick F word or two. She asks me to return her call at her office. So I proceed to call her back at her office. (HER OFFICE = HER COMPANY..the company she actually owns) Of course, I get the automated phone message. After all the basic B.S. who we are, what we do, I hear, "Although we are family owned and operated, our true boss is a Jewish carpenter. May the Lord bless and keep you."

WHOA! Back the boat up! WHAT? Does Jesus know you are referring to him as your boss?? Does this imply that Jesus wants you dropping the "F Bomb" on random voicemails? I mean...He is your boss and all....

This lead me right up onto my soap box... What is with the people that claim to be followers of Christ that do these things that are seemingly so un Christ like?? I am perfectly fine with religions of all kinds and all walks of faith and spirituality, but if you are going to stick a whole school of little fish on the back of your car, don't you think you should refrain from using your middle finger to rudely gesture to other drivers? If you are going to have a bumper sticker that says, "Know Jesus, Know Peace" that maybe, just MAYBE you should not drive down the road screaming at your kids in the back seat, swatting at them with your free hand? Or my very favorite - which I actually witnessed first hand. The woman in the grocery store, with a shirt on that had a picture of a newborn in what was assumed to be the hand of God / Jesus and the shirt read, "Jesus Loves The Unborn." I am literally reading her shirt as she is grabbing her child (pre-teenage girl) by the arm and says in the talking through your teeth Mom voice... "I swear to God, I'm gonna kill you if you roll your eyes at me one more time." I wanted to stop and ask her if her Jesus loved teenage girls too? Or is just the unborn?

My point is... if you have these things on your car, on your clothes or in your office... and you REALLY want people to think you are a devout follower of the Christian faith... Go back and read up on Jesus Christ... Make sure He'd want you proclaiming to be one of His "employees."