Jesus is My Happy Meal

"No, Daddy, we want to go to McDonald's!"

"We want the TOY!"


I've just finished listening to Seth Godin's Purple Cow, and now I'm listening to his other audio book Free Prize Inside. Godin very clearly sets forth the need to be remarkable in today's market, and he likens the WOW! factor of extraordinary products and services to the 'free prize' inside a box of Cracker Jacks.

It's an understatement, but when I received the Lord Jesus Christ as my Saviour, I got more than I was expecting.

I just wanted to go to heaven when I died. I just asked for forgiveness of sins.

I wasn't expecting the free prize inside!

"He that hath the Son hath life" (I John 5:12). I got eternal life, but I also got ABUNDANT life! And righteousness. And healing. And hope. And peace. And wisdom. And so many other things that are all wrapped up in Christ. To have Jesus is to have these things; he is those things to those who believe!

A friend of mine said to me, after accepting Christ into his heart, "If you would have told me that He takes away the guilt, I would have gotten saved sooner." Another friend told me that she had never experienced hope before she met Christ. For her, hope was the prize inside; hope made salvation remarkable.

So, 'taste and see that the Lord is good,' and enjoy the gifts that are 'in Him.'


Because Jesus is both the Happy Meal and the Free Prize inside!

The Kingdom of God is Purple

I've recently finished listening to Seth Godin's Purple Cow. Godin postulates that in today's market, the standard 'p's of promotion, product, publicity, etc., require an additional 'p' which he aptly calls purple. A purple cow standing in the midst of a field of ordinary cows would be attention-getting, and not-at-all ordinary. Godin thus uses the word purple as synonymous with the word remarkable.

Purple products are advertised through word of mouth. They don't require mass media blitzes. They don't need TV ads or magazine spreads. Consumers are obsessed with products that are purple, and their purple-ness spreads from neighbor to neighbor over backyard fences and around family barbecues.

The Kingdom of God is purple.

Well, that's not entirely correct. The Kingdom of God in its purest form is purple, but unfortunately, it is all too often presented as a stale, boring, and dry version of itself. Clothed in the suit and tie of religion, Christianity is seen as a list of rules and requirements, and not as the very LIFE of God flowing joyfully from the hearts of the redeemed.

"[T]he kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and JOY in the Holy Ghost." (Romans 14:17)

As Tony Campolo once wrote, "The Kingdom of God is a Party!" It's a celebration! It's contagious! It's heart-warming, life-giving, and you want to tell everyone you know! It bubbles forth like a fountain of living water. It can't be stopped! It's unique and irresistible!

In its original form, the Kingdom of God 'went viral' immediately after the Resurrection of Christ, and it hasn't stopped since!

Even its critics can't stop talking about it!

True Christianity doesn't require its members to tell others about Jesus, and there are no demerits if you keep it to yourself. But why would you want to?

The Kingdom of God is remarkable ~ it's purple!





Have you discovered this wonderful, oh-so-purple life?