Back to Blog Home
Too Much Jesus
|
Thursday, January 16, 2025 |
Unless you are Danielle Steele, Dean Koontz, J.K. Rowling, or Stephen King, you probably need coaching with your writing. Being in great need, I’m greatly helped by an online grammar checker. It sniffs out sentences written in the passive voice, adjectives whose modified nouns are unclear, commas that have been misplaced or misused—and many other writing sins. Though I tend to accept most suggestions, I was bemused by a message that popped up in a recent critique of something I’d written (screenshot below): "The word Jesus appears repeatedly in this text. Consider changing it or rewriting the sentence to avoid the repetition.” Obviously, that assessment is the product of an algorithm, not the expression of a real person. Nevertheless, a large and growing segment of Americans share that precise sentiment. We’re okay with God. Or gods. We are not okay with Jesus. Our culture now dictates, "Pray, privately, if you must--and in public very rarely. Above all, never pray in Jesus’ name." Because the truth is, for some, any mention of Jesus is too many. In case you’re wondering, my response to that online critique was to ignore it. I did not remove or replace a single reference to Jesus. And neither should you. This world has never been a friend to Jesus or His followers. And things are about to get a lot more “un-chummier.” But let’s not change our love or our loyalty. Let’s not avoid Jesus. Let’s cling to Him all the more.
|
Back to Blog Home
![]() |
|||||
Thursday Thought | |||||
|
|||||
Recent Posts
|