IT'S MORE PUN IN THE CHURCH

"IT'S MORE FUN IN THE PHILIPPINES!"  This is the latest slogan the Department of Tourism have come up with to boost the country's tourism.

And the slogan is effective according to the latest record of the growing number of tourist visiting our country.

It is a piece of good news for our country.  But while tourists are flocking to our motherland, most churches are losing members to contemporary churches.

Could it be because there is NOT MUCH FUN IN THE CHURCH?

Natatandaan ko pa nang pumunta kami ng mga kaibigan kong pastor sa Korea and we were hosted by a big church in Seoul.  Sinalubong kami ng Administrative Pastor na hindi ngumingiti.  The whole time that he gave us his lecture, walang expression ang kanyang mukha.  Mas tumatak pa nga sa amin ang blank face niya kaysa sa lecture niya. Hahahahahahahaha!

Anyway, ang pagkawala ng fun in the church goes beyond facial expression.  I will give some reasons why the church is perceived to be a very boring place:

• Christians say that God is rich but they huggle too much when they buy things for the church thus making God appear so cheap.

• Christian say that heaven is the best place to be and yet nobody among them wants to go there first.

• Christians say that God shows no partiality but they try to change people's style of dressing, music and hairstyles.

• Christians say that they love others and yet they are choosy with their friends.

• Christians say that they are the light but they are afraid of the dark.  It should be the dark that is afraid of the light.

Based on the list above, should we say then, that it's "pun" and not "fun" that is more in the  church.

That church people may be saying one thing but meant another thing.

pun n. A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.