We've done the unthinkable!

I read the following from a blog by Seth Godin, a guy who writes about the market place...

If the marketplace isn't talking about you, there's a reason.

If people aren't discussing your products, your services, your cause, your movement or your career, there's a reason.

The reason is that you're boring. (I guess that's what boring means, right?) And you're probably boring on purpose. You have boring pricing because that's safer. You have a boring location because to do otherwise would be nuts. You have boring products because that's what the market wants. That boring staff? They're perfectly well qualified...

You don't get unboring for free. Remarkable costs time and money and effort, but most of all, remarkable costs a willingness to be wrong.

It got me thinking- has the church done the unthinkable?

• Have we made faith boring?
• Have we taken the greatest story the world has every heard, and made it boring?
• Have we actually taken the great God of the universe, and made Him boring?
• Have we taken the life we are given in Jesus Christ, and made it boring?
• Have we been given the gift of the Holy Spirit, and made Him boring?

As unimaginable as it may seem, I think the short, sad answer is, "Yes."
I also think that needs to change.
After all, this is what the bible teaches us...

17... if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:17-21

God isn't boring.
Life in Jesus isn't boring.
The church isn't boring.
But you might be boring.
But don't worry- if Jesus can bring the dead to life, maybe he can make you cool again!