“Welcome to Zombo Com”

Author’s note: BK, you’ll have time to read this article. It will be short, I promise.
………. we now return to our regularly scheduled NC email …….

Ah, the wonders of the internet culture. The sights, er sites, to see. So, many goofy, silly, fun, “only on the internet” sites.

How about this one:http://www.jumptheshark.com/

or this one:http://www.stupidvideos.com

Update: July 6, 2007 — must add the Mentos+diet Coke phenomenon. Thanks to the Internet, this little craze became, ah… a craze! These guys are the absolute best at Mento-diet Coke “fireworks” http://www.eepybird.com/exp144.html

Here is one site that you simply must check out: http://www.zombo.com

(Old time web surfers will probably recognize it immediately, for it is a “classic.”). You see, there are two kinds of people in the world, those who laugh hysterically at zombo.com–and those who are normal.

Go ahead, click on it, it won’t bite. Come on. Click on it…. trust me….

Who you trying to fool, you didn’t click on it.This email won’t make sense if you don’t visit www.zombo.com.

[Hey, Brent! none of your emails ever make sense!!]

Ah, well, yeah…. but that’s kinda beside the point. But moving right along…. More…I hope that at least ~some~ of you were cooperative and visited www.zombo.com. Those of you who did could very well be thinking, “I don’t get it.” That’s a good sign actually ~_^

You see, this site just appeared out in the wild wild web during the middle of a huge upswing in web sites that were fancy, flashy, colorful, rather ostentatious — and pretty useless. Those other sites did not intend to be useless, but they were. www.zombo.com is an utterly useless site, and that is the gag. All glitz, all hype, all promise, and no delivery at all.

{BK,you still with me? sorry, I’m trying to keep it short!}

TO THE POINT: Do Not Be a “Zombo.com” Kind of Christian.

That’s it. Have a nice day.

Oh, oh, I see that some of you would like some further explanation. OK.

Take me for example. I can get pretty glitzy with my faith. I can talk up a blue streak about my church (just genuine enthusiasm), my Christian friends, some topic of biblical relevance, something that Jesus said, etc. I also love “Jesus junk.” I prefer to call my little collection “prayer reminders.” I have a huge railroad spike from a small group retreat, a Narnia sword/letter opener, a Promise Keepers mug, the obligatory framed scripture verse done in very nice calligraphy (mine is Proverbs 3:6), and of course, one mustn’t forget Bob and Larry.

And I can easily delve into the Christian culture: the bands, the movies, the books, the web sites, the Bible studies, the speakers, even the stand up comedians (I love the Bananas DVDs).

In short, I can put out a lot of Jesus Flash. I can be very “religious.” I can be a Zombo.com kinda guy. All religion and no fruit of the Spirit.

BOTTOM LINE: “They will know we are Christians by our bumper stickers….”

I think you get the idea. May we all bear the fruit of the Spirit. May *that* be the reason why people know that we are Christians. No reason to get out the razor blade and start hacking on your back bumper. The outward signs of the faith are not inherently bad. But let’s all pray for each other that the inward Light easily overshadows any “glitz” that others may see.