Fun is a four letter word

If I could ban one word from church, it would have to be "fun".

Before the cries of 'calvanist meanie!' go up. Let me explain, then after that, you can get the dunking chair out on me :-)

In the modern church, that word has become the yardstick generally of whether a program, camp, sermon or activity has been effective. And notice the main tenet of using this as a benchmark: It's need for an immediate response

Fun is an instantateous reaction to a stimuli. There is no such thing as waiting for a while and thinking about whether what just happened was fun - it either is or isn't. This is dangerous because this predisposes the church into judging everything on a straight emotional response and one that can be thoroughly misleading

The effectiveness of the Christian faith can usually only be seen through a long period of walking with the Lord in obedience and discipleship. At times, many of those moments are full of hardship and discomfort - definitely not fun. But it is necessary to build that kind of intimacy with God, if you are serious

Which I think is the crux of the issue here. It's usually a way of skirting the harder issues about where our own individual faith is taking us. Rather than think about that, we rather play with it superficially. Keep it light, keep it fun

The last time I checked, being fun was not really one of God's attributes. And even if you can find some way from your exegesis to argue so, I would contend that it certaintly isn't one of his major ones

Soli Deo Gloria