Jonathan Merritt has a nice interview with Leonard Sweet about his new book, The Well-Played Life. I particularly loved this quote:
“We are more followers of the Pharisees than Jesus the Christ. We have become solemn, austere, intense, laborious, lugubrious, boring. It’s time to lighten up. For a church founded on a pun (Jesus is punning on the words “Petras” and “Petra”) to have trouble with laughter and humor is bad form.
For one thing, we need to laugh more. I was listening to a podcast on the baptism of Jesus and the tag line for the show was, “Less laughter, More Jesus.” Is that what the world needs? Less laughing Christians? In fact, Jesus had a rich laugh life, and was constantly smiling, laughing, telling funny stories, joking with his disciples. So the truth is “More laughter, More Jesus.””