Apparently I and those of my ilk are headed for extinction.  At least that is what a group of mathematicians have determined for the “religious” folks of a number of European countries.

Frankly, this doesn’t really bother me. In fact I kind of wonder why it has taken so long?

The stiff and unimaginative way that we Christians have “done church” often makes me wonder why we have any market share at all. After all, boredom and church are many times found intertwined in the same bed.

But while we Christians have been dithering about and majoring on the minors, those who make a buck entertaining and amusing us have been getting better and better at their job.

Not that it is the job of the church to entertain or amuse (although I do think that we have hardly lifted the veil on the immensely entertaining and hilarious nature of God) we Christians have been mandated to offer something to the world that can’t be found anywhere else, something so authentic, so wondrous and so in cahoots with mankind’s deepest longings that it can’t be ignored.