Want to name a chapter in the Stuff Christians Like book?
Jun 19th by JonThe contest is over and the comments you dropped are ridiculous. I’m going to pick 5 that I think would look great in the book and then post them next week for you guys to vote on which one you want to see in the book. Thanks so much for participating.
I think it would be fun if you guys named a chapter in the book. You’re consistently dropping hilarity and insight in the comments section and I think it would be cool to be able to open the book on a shelf and say, “That chapter title? That’s me.”
So I picked out a chapter. (I’m calling the essays “chapters” now so that I sound like a fancy author.) The title I’m currently going with is:
“Figuring out a loving way to quit a prayer chain.”
The chapter is about when you somehow find yourself on an email prayer chain that you don’t remember signing up for and you’re almost positive that you don’t know anyone in the Nantahala River Gorge region and you’re not sure you’re committed to praying daily via email reminders for the river people. How do you quit a prayer chain like that without looking like you hate God and river people and maybe even gorges which doesn’t even make sense? The Stuff Christians Like book is going to answer that question.
So, want to name the chapter?
Post the funniest title you can think of using a format similar to how the essays on this site are titled. (Stuff Christians Like: _______) Enter as many times as you want. The winner’s title will appear in the book, they’ll get a free copy, their name in the acknowledgments and can say, “I wrote part of the Stuff Christians Like book.”
I’ll skip tomorrow’s post and leave this up so that we can check out the comments.
Enter until Tuesday, June 23.
I’ll post the five best and then let you guys decide which one goes in the book.
Power to the people.
Commence the funny.
What should the name of this chapter be?
Comments
SCL: How to ignore the needs of the river people (who may or may not be related to your church organist's sister's coworker's husband's old college roommate) in Christian love.
I vote: "the best use of your spam folder" or "should i pray or should i go?"
Also i love: Faking Your Own Death: And Other Fantastical Ways To Deal With Those Pesky Prayer Chains
And "up the prayer chain without a paddle"
These are hilarious.
it's not the church… it's me!
Delicately Snapping Daisies – How to break a prayer chain like Jesus would
Stuff Christians Like: Knowing Paul didn't write about email in the NIV but hoping he did in the Message.
I'm going into the Witness Protection Program because I just broke the prayer chain.
Is it too late to upgrade my Life Insurance. I just broke the Prayer Chain.
I really want to win this Contest so I'm going to go break the Prayer Chain.
Stuff Christians Like: It is wrong to have a junk mailbox for my prayer chains?
Update to previous entry
SCL: Will the circle be unbroken? Breaking their email chain, bless their hearts and the sweet baby Jesus.
SCL: The Bueller effect or What to do when your grandmother asks you to pray for a guy named Ferris.
SCL: Feeling led to disconnect.
SCL: Unsubscribe with dignity.
SCL: The prayer chain leg sweep.
SCL: I kissed prayer chains goodbye.
SCL: Making a break from the chain gang.
SCL: Not believing in luck, coincidence, or prayer chains.
SCL: Renaming your spam folder "Giving it to God."
SCL:Bondage Breakers and Other Applicable Literature for the Tech Savvy in the Twenty-First Century.
Dr. Strangeprayer or: How I Learned to Stop Fasting and Love the Spam
Breaking the chain: how spam can make me feel as guilty as my Jewish mother does
I am the weakest link…Goodbye
SLC: "Unsubscribe" does not equal "Unsaved"
SLC: Free at last!
SLC: My favorite book of the Bible~ EXODUS
SLC: I AM the weakest link. Goodbye!
Stuff Christians Like: To Forward or not to Forward (Knowing when it is okay to break the prayer chain)
Stuff Christians Like: Stick a Fork In Me… I'm Done
Stuff Christans Like: It's Not Me… It's You!
Feeling called to a more "focused" prayer life
SCL: Cold Turkey, or Why the Patch Won't Help you Quit Chain Prayer.
Stuff Christians Like: The Unchained Melody–"Take the shackles off my feet so I won't have to pray for my more Righteous Brothers . . ."
SCL: Imply a Spirit-led withdrawal from a prayer chain as to allow more opportunities for personally misleading others about how much you are praying for them.
Stuff Christians Like: Deciding Prayer Via Email doesn't Count When It's About Stuff you Don't Care About Anyway.
Stuff Christians Like: Being More Worried About What Other People Think of You than What God Thinks of You
Stuff Christians Like: Breaking These Chains of Love
Stuff Christians Like: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (Not Really)
Stuff Christians Like: Making Unchained Melodies
SCL: Delinking with right thinking….
SCL: Linked to the mob
SCL: Would Jesus mind if I cranked that Soulja Boy dance?
- Jordan Cabuay
SCL: Prayer chains: where rumor meets guilt trip.
It should be titled:
"How to remove Aunt Ruth's best friends cousins bunion…"
SCL: To Hell in a Handbasket [tales of an unsubscriber]
Look, I just came back from camp and I have a new prayer partner…
Sorry, but i just heard that those river people drink liquor.
Unsubscribing to prayer chains without losing your salvation
SCL:Can good stuff still happen to me in 13 minutes if I break the prayer chain?
SCL: You are the weakest link… goodbye.
SCL: It's not you, it's me
SCL: How to tell a prayer chain, "it's not you, it's me"
SCL: We need to talk…
SCL: How you know it's time for a new email address
SCL: Knowing when it's time for a change of address
SCL: Spamornot?
SCL: Auntie Prayerthon's Spamornot?
SCL: How to break up with the chains that bind us
Heartless in the Heartland: if Snopes hasn't verified it, I don't prayer-ify it.
wv = sationiz, which is very close to "Satanize," which is probably best left alone.
Oops, didn't enter correctly. Second WV = "kings," as in "King of Kings, and Lord of Lords." Much better.
Actually, Chuck Allen's "How to Cease Without Praying" struck me funny. Good twist of scripture.
Now I finally read the comments and see that all my ideas were pretty much thought of by someone else first… goes to show ya…
Stuff Christians Love: Hitting Unsubscribe, the Godly way?
Stuff Christians Like: Freeing Yourself From the Forwards of our Father who art in heaven?
Stuff Christians Like: What would Jesus do.. if his inbox was overflowing with forwards?
God hates spam
"Cutting the Cheese"
Seriously,it works on so many levels…
I'm gonna go with:
Breaking chains without breaking hearts
cheesy, but cute
I had another one…but it's gone now. So I guess that'll have to be my only submission or now
@Nick "i'm just not catching the vision"
Stuff Christians Like: Whoops! Changed my email address! How'd that happen?
SCL: Why river people scare me
SCL: Straight to junk mail
SCL: Quittin' on a Prayer
SCL: Monkey see, monkey delete
Stuff Christians Like: Dropping a Prayer Chain Like a Bad Habit.
Stuff Christians Like: Ignoring That New E-mail Requesting Prayer
Stuff Christians Like: Hitting the "Remove Me From This List" Button
SCL: The Holy Spirit is interceding for you, so what do you need me for?
SCL: Breakin' the Chain Without the Pain
SCL: No Shame or Blame in Deleting the Prayer Chain
SCL: Just Like a Prayer (Chain)
SCL: How Not to Spam the Great I Am while Deleting a Prayer Chain