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I was driving up to Phoenix two days ago to pick up my wife and daughter at the airport and there was a Van in front of me on the Interstate Highway with a Christian “fish” symbol on the back as well as a bloody picture of Jesus with thorns on his head. This really pissed me off. Yes, I’m about to rant and there will be many of my dear brethen who will say shame on me for being so vocal, but so be it.

Don’t show me your “fish” or your “bloody Jesus” show me your life…

I am so sick of symbols and ID tags to try to tell the world that you are a Christian. If you have to use crosses and fish symbols and buttons and pictures to tell the world you are a Christian, then something is wrong. Yes, I know I’m being critical and a nice Christian wouldn’t be this way, but I am sick of people using fish symbols on their business cards just to leverage the Christian market.

When I see a fish on a business card I RUN. My experience has been that if there is a fish, the person is trying to solicit other Christians to do business with them. Now this isn’t bad in and of itself, but it is also my experience that they then take advantage of each other, try to cut deals, put up with less than the best work and the list goes on all because “we’re a family”.

It would make more sense to me that a Christian would want to do business with people who aren’t Christians so they could show the world the quality and character of their lifestyle by the quality of their business or service.

In the 60’s when I really started to get serious about God in my life, the statement was “they will know we are Christians by our love”. Today it’s about how big and shinny is your cross, do you have a fish symbol on your car or business card, is there a picture of a “bloody Jesus” somewhere in your house or tattooed on your body.

Speaking of the “bloody Jesus” if they really wanted to be accurate they wouldn’t have the picture of a handsome man who looks sad with just a few drops flowing down his face. You want the real picture? The scriptures say that his face was so beaten, that it was unrecognizable, a bloody pulp, a mass of distorted flesh. But no one wants that on their car window or tatted on their body, they just want him to look sad…

Now do you really think that Christ wants us to constantly look at his death, to be in a constant state of mourning? He got up! That was the whole reason for the death–so he could rise again. Get over the death and start living the life!

Okay, I’ve said enough. I’ll go back to my cup of coffee and chill out for awhile.

Duke Clarke