i wrote something yesterday that's currently piqued my mind - so I figured I'd share here. I said I don't like cliches and Christianese. There's this language in the Christian subculture (leave a comment if you're already confused) that helps Christians all figure out who we all are. You know what I'm referring to; the born again, repentance, washed in the blood, forgiveness, saved language that we all flippantly throw around as we learn the lingo of the church. I don't see God only speaking English, or speaking Christianese. I see her/him speaking the language of the lost.

Did I say God swears?

No, not necessarily.

But I do think he's in a gay bar, at a sports event, in the classroom, on the field, at the hospital, in a restaurant, etc. And in all of these places, God hurts, cries, aches, and speaks to the people, the hurt the lost, and the broken. Do Christians do this all the time? How are we known? How am I known as a Christian? For pete's sake, am I known as a Christian?

How do I want to be known as a Christian? By the perfect language that hints at my overzealous perfectionism? By my Icthus adorned Honda Civic, that as I drive past someone, I still can flip them off b/c they cut me off? By the t-shirt i wear with the language that only Christians are going to get, and could be frankly rude or offensive inadvertently by mocking the secular society?

My favorite Christian artists (and I don't have many, frankly), Justin McRoberts, has a whole album on this issue... really, its part of his ministry to Christians - to slap them upside the head. He has this shirt that I utterly love; the shirt says this:

they will know we are Christians by our t-shirts

preach it, Justin... preach it...

thoughts?