Miriam and I are definitely in for it. I can only blame my southern baptist heritage for this. I didn’t realize that being SBC penetrates your DNA… but I guess it does.

So here’ s what happened.

The other day, my wife, enters our den to see something odd transpiring. My daughter, Aida (3yrs), is standing on the couch with my son Samuel (2) and dozens of stuffed animals sitting on the ground listening. She picks up a microphone and proceeds to introduce the “crowd” to my son James (5). Aida sits down, James grabs the microphone and stands on the couch. He begins to ask the kids and the stuffed animals if they know Jesus and launches into a mini-sermon. Then he opens things up for an altar call, asking anyone who wants to accept Jesus to step down front. Many stuffed animals were saved that day.

He’s amazing. I have no idea where he gets this stuff. It’s not like he’s seen it on Sundays at church - he’s always in kids church.  It’s the gotta be the SBC, I tell ya. It’s like a skunk - once you’re sprayed, it’s hard to get the stink off of ya. So we’ve either got a Billy Graham or even next Benny Hinn on our hands… Oh boy!

That’s right. I’m a Dirty Baptist or DB. I’m not ashamed of it. Frankly, I’m proud of it.

So what is a DB?

You might be a DB if… (you answer NO to these)

1. You must wear a suit on Sunday (and you like it).

2. Sitting in your pews makes you smell like old person (and that’s a good thing).

3. You put Charismatics in the same category as Mormons (because they’re both a cult)

4. The sound of pipe organs makes you feel at home (let us turn now to hymn 3732.34b).

5. You have used the term “Turn or Burn” in the course of evangelism (it’s truth people need!).

6. You’ve used a bible as a weapon to bludgeon a non believer (sword of the spirit baby).

7. You pronounce Jesus with four syllables (J-huh-eEEEE-Sssussss!).

8. You hold to traditions, but have no idea why you do them (it’s what we’ve always done!)

So as a DB what do I personally stand for? Well, I believe in the biblical model of a church (Acts) and not a set of traditions set in motion 70 years ago or ones by chubby Buddha Ricky Bobby Warren. I believe that God is living and you have to move and change to keep up with Him. I believe that we’ve sold the danger of the Great Commission for the comfort of the American Dream. I believe that we need to engage, pursue, and love the dirty people (i.e. the ones we don’t want sitting next to us on a Sunday morning because you know they sin - like we don’t). I believe that the biblical model of a believer and follower of Christ is a dangerous thing that the world fears (but rarely sees).

So what officially makes me a Dirty Baptist? Well, it’s the looks of disapproval I garnet from the other Baptists as I move outside the box (or sanctuary).

So don’t get me wrong, I love Baptists. It’s just I enjoy being a dirty one.

So what about you? Are you a DB? Or a Dirty ________ (insert denomination)?

[revised from '06]

“Once a year we go to Austria to hunt with our dogs, and at the end of the day we sit on the verandah and drink a beer. So we thought, my dog also has earned it.” says Terrie Berenden, a pet shop owner in the southern Dutch town of Zelhem, who created a beer for her Weimaraners made from beef extract and malt.

Um. Wow, this is wrong on so many levels.

This raises a deep theological question: What is the SBC’s (Southern Baptist Convention) stance on dogs drinking beer? I mean there’s no place in the Bible (quick! prove me wrong) that says your dog can’t kick one back. Is there?

So what do Southern Baptists do when Fido want’s a cold one?

Any thoughts?

Read more here.

Posted this a while back and thought it time to post it again.

I’ve been the on again, off again blogger this summer with no real consistency. So I’m vowing to change that. Things here are still rolling full speed ahead, but I’m not officially switching from blogger to wordpress. Why? Well because Kevin Bussey said so. That’s good enough for me. Any guy that gets 700 hits a day (and can still stand) has earned my respect (besides his Bama leadings).  Yes he’s a fellow DB (dirty Baptist).

So what is a DB?

You might be a DB if… (you answer NO to these)

1. You must wear a suit on Sunday (and you like it).

2. Sitting in your pews makes you smell like old person (and that’s a good thing).

3. You put Charismatics in the same category as Mormons (because they’re both a cult)

4. The sound of pipe organs makes you feel at home (let us turn now to hymn 3732.34b).

5. You have used the term “Turn or Burn” in the course of evangelism.

6. You’ve used a bible as a weapon to bludgeon a non believer.

7. You pronounce Jesus with four syllables (J-huh-eEEEE-Sssussss!). 

So as a DB what do I personally stand for? Well, I believe in the biblical model of a church (Acts) and not a set of traditions set in motion 70 years ago or ones by chubby Buddha Ricky Bobby Warren. I believe that God is living and you have to move and change to keep up with Him. I believe that we’ve sold the danger of the Great Commission for the comfort of the American Dream. I believe that we need to engage, pursue, and love the dirty people (i.e. the ones we don’t want sitting next to us on a Sunday morning because you know they sin - like we don’t). I believe that the biblical model of a believer and follower of Christ is a dangerous thing that the world fears (but rarely sees).  

So what officially makes me a Dirty Baptist? Well, it’s the looks of disapproval I garnet from the other Baptists as I move outside the box (or sanctuary).

So don’t get me wrong, I love Baptists. It’s just I enjoy being a dirty one.