Where Everybody Knows Your Name

That’s the “Cheers” Theme Song from the television show years ago. It’s almost hard to believe that it’s been off the air now for almost 15 years. For those of you that knew that I can almost guess you still watch Cheers on late night television and do not get very much sleep.

The song was brought up during our church service yesterday and got me thinking about the realities of the song to our everyday lives. Part of that “belonging” desire by most people to be around people with whom you share something. It could be work, social gatherings like the VFW or Am Vets, the Rotary, theater, or even neighborhood outings & pot lucks.

We all have the need to ‘belong’ and have a sense of ‘being Norm’ when you walk into a room and everyone gives you a personal greeting. Our world today has changed much over the years and our common ground seems to be that everyone shares similar problems and circumstances. Even though we are individuals who seek out many different paths in life and make our own way many seek out that common place or feeling you get from being around others with the same attitudes or experiences.

A common purpose . . .

A sense of self . . .

Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.

Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.

Wouldn't you like to get away?

Sometimes you want to go

Where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came.

You wanna be where you can see,

our troubles are all the same

You wanna be where everybody knows Your name.

You wanna go where people know,

people are all the same,

You wanna go where everybody knows your name.

By Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo

I'm not saying that we should add this song into our worship rotations, but wouldn't it be great if this song was truer about Christian communities than a bar in Boston?

There are similarities between a bar or restaurant and ‘church’. In a bar folks will tell you a lot (about themselves and other things) if you show them the slightest bit of attention and act like you are interested in what they are saying. Second, Hungry people at the bar are fed quickly. (And if the food is good, they will come back for more.)

In church people will tell you a lot (about themselves and other things) if you show them the slightest bit of attention and act like you are interested in what they are saying. It is sad to admit that we may know more about the man or woman who is sitting next to you in a bar or restaurant than I do about some of the people sitting to my right or left at church. The positive thing is that we should be ‘outside’ the walls of church sharing our faith with strangers and friends much like Jesus did in his time on Earth.

Hungry people are looking to be fed. Biblical preaching and teaching feeds the soul like nothing else will. And if the food is good, they will come back for more.

Cheers!

Ice

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Morrison Springs - Ponce de Leon, Florida

Image
Morrison Springs Ponce de Leon, Florida County road 181 Morrison Springs was one of our favorite dive spots on many of our Florida trips but it also had the most danger to it.  One of Northwest Florida’s best-kept secrets was known to more Georgia and Alabama folks than Floridians.  And they weren’t talking.  It had to do with the jewel of a Panhandle spring, a turquoise pool surrounded by stately cypress trees whose aerial roots stand taller than a man. Below the surface, clear, 68-degree water wells up from a spring cave source over 90 feet deep. Morrison Springs is just far enough off the beaten path in this sunny pine and cypress country to be special for any diver lucky enough to find and dive the site. The shallow pool reflects the overhead blue sky and if the water is clear and the bottom clean of silt, it resembles a giant sapphire.  Unlike some springs with a deep, black hole source, this one takes visitors gradually into its shallows from a gol...
Read more

Are Showing Your Nipples Appropriate Work Attire?

Image
Let me first say that personally, I have no problem with it at all. This has been kind of a weird week here in the north land with the first of many winter snowfalls’s to come and the landscape once again beautifully covered in the white stuff. It looks like the kids will have to put their Halloween costume on over a snowsuit again this year as the cold snowy stuff is here again. That is not what I wanted to write about tonight but was necessary to set up what I did want to write about. “Frosty nipples” are quite common here during most of the year and when things cool down on the cusp of winter probably more so. Work attire with tight shirts or low cut blouses that ‘make a statement’ during colder weather could be taken several ways by co-workers or visitors to your place of business. While you may not always be taken seriously by others in the office and some may have trouble looking you in the face, I say it's a freedom of rights issue. If you want to show o...
Read more

Biscuits and Whores

Image
Some of the best things about life I learned from Lonesome Dove. Great movie, excellent characters, and tells a story about how to live life. Augustus McCrae “It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living.   I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” I'm just tryin' to keep everything in balance, Woodrow. You do more work than you got to, so it's my obligation to do less. “Yesterday’s gone and we can’t get it back.” “I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning.   If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.” Hat Creek Cattle Company Well we don't rent pigs and I figure it's better to say it right out front because a man that does like to rent pigs is . . . he's hard to stop. Biscuits “I never knew you to get excited about anything except biscuits maybe . . . and whores!”    Captain Woodrow Call to Augustus McCrae in Lonesome Dove. Whores L...
Read more