New Word: Cuetology

Cuetology (pronounced cue-tology)

Cuetology. The belief that you do not eat anything, drink anything, wear anything, drive anything, or live in anything that is not….cute.

We were on a long drive home last week and Pam and I were being silly from exhaustion and I was kidding her on how she has mastered this cuetology thing. In fact, I am naming her the first official Queen of Cuetology. She is ALWAYS cuetologically correct.

She buys the little Diet Coke's in the small bottles and the small cans…because they are cute.

She only wears certain type of flip-flops…only because they are cute.

She wears only certain types/styles of clothes…because they are cute.

Cuetology. The belief that you must never eat, drink, wear, drive or live in anything that is not…cute.

I was only joking with Pam. But this sounds like a lot of Christians I know. They only chose to believe certain Scriptures…as long as they are cute. They chose to ignore certain passages and some even reject the entire Old Testament because they have deemed it not relevant for today's culture.

Cute.

Healing is not for today. Tongues are not for today. Holiness is not for today. Repentance? Righteousness? Not for today! The prevailing philosophy is Oh yea, I'm a Christian…I'm right with God because I live in America…I don't need to repent…I give to charity…I'm a good person, I treat people with respect…. but I never go to church, I never have to pray or read the Bible, all I need is to be around other good people, and I will go to heaven! There's good in everybody, how dare you tell me Jesus is the only way to Eternal life! Why, there are many different ways for us to get there!

Cute.

There are no absolutes! So if there are no absolutes, drive down the Interstate at 150 miles per hour. And when the police pull you over for SPEEDING, I dare you to tell that police officer "I saw the sign that says 70 mph, but I don't believe in absolotes so I don't believe in speed limit signs! I don't believe speed limit signs are for today. So I decided to drive 150 mph!"

Then when they haul you to jail in handcuffs, don't use your one phone call to call your mama or your daddy and by all means don't call a lawyer; use your one phone call to call me, David Copeland and tell me 70 miles per hours does not really mean 70 miles per hour.

Cute.

I'm glad we are seizing technology, the Internet, television and radio to spread the Gospel! I'm on Facebook, I'm still on MySpace, I use Linked In, Twitter, email, Mail Chimp, I have a Smartphone, and I'm looking for other gadgets to use for the Gospel.

But I will never compromise the Message just to be…cute. And Pam doesn't either!

I think I'm going to patent the name before somebody else does….