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  Comment by Manfred — February 3, 2009 @ 7:54 am

  Ouch!

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  Comment by Angus — February 3, 2009 @ 8:48 am

  I hurt myself creating the post!

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  Comment by emergent pillage — February 3, 2009 @ 11:35 pm

  Oh, the old “Why don’t Christians talk about Christian things like they talk about sports/cars/pickahobby?” guilt trip.

  Wow, I haven’t seen that one for a while.

  So, let’s see–if I can’t do the wave while the preacher is reading scripture from the pulpit, I’m not allowed to do at a football or basketball game?

  Or, maybe it’s that how we talk about faith and hobbies is different because…they are different things? Maybe that’s why the dialogue in the cartoon above seems kind of cringe-worthy?

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  Comment by tom Briggs — February 4, 2009 @ 1:09 am

  The wolf that yelps in the pack is the one that got hit by the stone! (Touch Down!)

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  Comment by Angus — February 4, 2009 @ 1:39 am

  Guilt trip, huh? Really?

  Seriously, emergent pillage, you’re reading WAY too much into this cartoon. The only intersection between faith and hobbies that I’m highlighting here is the observation that we as Christians (myself included) sometimes fail to express our faith outside of church as often as we should or with the outward enthusiasm it deserves. If you never have that problem, then good for you.

  For the record, I don’t have an issue with Christians being involved with sports/cars/pickahobby. And I am very aware that faith and hobbies are two different things that should be talked about differently. The cartoon dialogue isn’t realistic and wasn’t meant to be; it was a simple and expedient literary device to transpose the priority of their conversation from sports to Christ in order to make my point.

  Perhaps the cartoon didn’t relate that point as well as it should have from your perspective, but is it really a guilt trip to say that we should make sure that we speak about the Gospel as much as possible and with an outward joy that transcends our enjoyment of worldly things?

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