The contest is over and the comments you dropped are ridiculous. I'm going to pick 5 that I think would look great in the book and then post them next week for you guys to vote on which one you want to see in the book. Thanks so much for participating.
I think it would be fun if you guys named a chapter in the book. You’re consistently dropping hilarity and insight in the comments section and I think it would be cool to be able to open the book on a shelf and say, “That chapter title? That’s me.”
So I picked out a chapter. (I’m calling the essays “chapters” now so that I sound like a fancy author.) The title I’m currently going with is:
“Figuring out a loving way to quit a prayer chain.”
The chapter is about when you somehow find yourself on an email prayer chain that you don’t remember signing up for and you’re almost positive that you don’t know anyone in the Nantahala River Gorge region and you’re not sure you’re committed to praying daily via email reminders for the river people. How do you quit a prayer chain like that without looking like you hate God and river people and maybe even gorges which doesn’t even make sense? The Stuff Christians Like book is going to answer that question.
So, want to name the chapter?
Post the funniest title you can think of using a format similar to how the essays on this site are titled. (Stuff Christians Like: _______) Enter as many times as you want. The winner's title will appear in the book, they'll get a free copy, their name in the acknowledgments and can say, “I wrote part of the Stuff Christians Like book.”
I’ll skip tomorrow’s post and leave this up so that we can check out the comments.
Enter until Tuesday, June 23.
I’ll post the five best and then let you guys decide which one goes in the book.
Power to the people.
Commence the funny.
What should the name of this chapter be?
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ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Love : Leaving with Love.
ReplyDeleteBootleg cookies, orange drink and other favorite christian food forgeries.
ReplyDelete"i fell into a burning ring of prayer..."
ReplyDeleteprops to johnny cash
"Being Called To Pray For Someone Other Than You"
ReplyDeletew.v.-toscab (really?!?)
What happens when you tell your uninvited e-mail prayer chain moderator to kick rocks.
"Uninvited: The Eternal Implications of Clicking 'Remove Me'"
ReplyDelete"Letting someone else pray for the river people"
ReplyDelete"Trying to find a way to break the holy electronic e-mail prayer chain without looking like you hate prayer and the mountain people"
ReplyDelete*electronic mail
ReplyDeleteFriends are friends forever....(as long as they sidehug)
ReplyDeleteBowing out of the chain gang
ReplyDeleteor
Letting the truth set you free...to hit junk mail
The best use of your Spam folder.
ReplyDeleteSCL: The Missing Link
ReplyDeleteNot quiting a prayer chain so they don't look like they hate God and river people and maybe even gorges which doesn’t even make sense.
ReplyDeletewv: agges
def: a really, REALLY long time
"I've been reading this blog for agges."
Stuff Christians Like: Praying for your OWN friends
ReplyDeleteBeing Too Humble (Proud) to Unsubscribe
ReplyDelete"How To Unsubscribe From Jesus and Still Go To Heaven"
ReplyDeleteBreaking Free of the (Prayer) Chains
ReplyDeleteor
Breaking Free of the (Email) Chains
"Faking Your Own Death: And Other Fantastical Ways To Deal With Those Pesky Prayer Chains"
ReplyDeleteOh wait...I didn't read the post properly and started throwing in random ones unconnected to the topic. And now i look like a fool because orange drink has nothing to do with prayer chains. hmmm.
ReplyDeleteUp the prayer chain, without a paddle
ReplyDeleteor
Prayer chains of love got a hold on me...(Bon Jovi tribute)
Freeing yourself from the chains of prayer in X easy steps. (where X is a number that might have some reference to the article)
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: The Eschatological Hermeneutics of Petitioning External Entities to Beseech an Omniscient-Omnipotent-Omnipresent-Omnibenevolent-Deity Though Ones Recollection Neglects to Remember the Aforementioned Circumstances of Authorizing or Affirming to Complete Such a Voluminous Task with Immense Existential and Spiritual Consequences
ReplyDeleteTwo or Three? Don't include me...
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Breaking the Ball & Chain of a Prayer Marriage!
ReplyDelete"Why Can't I Quit You?
ReplyDeleteLearning To Let Go of Accidental Prayer Chains"
Breaking the chains: How to make holy use of the spam folder.
ReplyDelete"Who Taught Grandma How To Use E-mail?
ReplyDeleteThe troubling truth behind the Nantahala River Community College Geriatric internet education course."
Did Someone Say Chick-fil-A?
ReplyDeleteWhy Pray? It's all predestined anyway!
ReplyDeleteDid I Do That? And other Urkle Responses
ReplyDeleteWhen email filtering is not enough: Persistent prayer petitions
ReplyDeleteIf I'm here and You're Here... Isn't It Like Our Time?
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain... so stop being one to me
ReplyDeletePeace Out
ReplyDelete"Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)" (with props to Chris Tomlin)
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Turning Pray Chains Into Spam Mail
ReplyDeleteIt's not you... It's me
ReplyDeleteSCL: Getting Off the Chain Gang
ReplyDeleteSCL: A Graceful Exit From Prayer-Chain Bondage
SCL: When Chains are Gone, You'll Be Set Free
What the?!...and the cow dropped from the ceiling
ReplyDelete(an old SNL reference from when they didn't know how to end a sketch)
SCL: How to remove your name from the prayer list without it being removed from the book of life
ReplyDeleteSCL: Learning the hack e-mail, or how to remove your name from a prayer chain
ReplyDeleteSCL: Should I Pray or Should I Go
"Stuff Christians Like: Viral Prayer Chains"
ReplyDelete"Stuff Christians Like: Praying for Strangers"
"Stuff Christians Like: Spiritual Spam"
How I Learned To Stop Praying And Love The Bomb
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Asking Jesus to Unbind These {Prayer} Chains
ReplyDeleteLord Touch 'em......as I unsubscribe!
ReplyDeleteor
I hate to do this but I am already praying for another River Gorge in another region! And everyone knows you can't serve 2 river gorges.
Stuff Christians Like chapter suggestions:
ReplyDelete1. Ball and Prayer Chain: How to Unsubscribe Well
2. Peer Pressure Prayer Chains: How to Get Out Tactfully
3. The Chain the Binds: How I Escaped a Weird Prayer Chain without Looking Like a Jerk
Unshackled: How to Quit the Prayer Chain
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: To subscribe or unsubscribe: that is the question...
ReplyDelete(Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous spam,
Or to take arms against a sea of junk mail,
And by opposing end them?)
Stuff Christians Like: Workin' On the Chain Gang (of Prayer)
ReplyDeletePersonally, I vote for Jonathon Ferguson's "Should I Pray or Should I Go"
w.v. - ingst: an inkling of angst
SCL: Breaking The Chain
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ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Intercession Recess
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: It's not the River People, it's me.
ReplyDeleteSCL: Inbox Overload
ReplyDeleteSCL: Bailing out your inbox
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: "Unchain My Prayer"
ReplyDeleteSCL: A River (Gorge) runs through your inbox
ReplyDeleteWV: jurks-juries that are slightly irritating.
SCL: Listen, Prayer Chain, I really need to focus on me right now.
ReplyDeleteSCL: Dear Prayer Chain, I've met someone else. Please understand.
SCL: When prayer chains attack, curl up in a ball, play dead, and click unsubscribe.
"A Chain's Only As Strong As Its Weakest Link...Dang, That's Me."
ReplyDeleteSCL: Razzle Dazzling a prayer chain
ReplyDeleteSCL: Im a Christian....Get me out of this prayer chain!
ReplyDeleteSCL: Ditching the Chain Gang
ReplyDeleteSCL: A Little Chain Will Do You Good
SCL: No Chain, No Gain
SCL: Breaking the Chains
SCL: How to Peace Out Without Disturbing the Peace
SCL: Please Stop Forwarding Me Those Dumb E-Mails, Mom
Potlucks
ReplyDeleteSCL: how to fearlessly break away from the holy prayer chain (gang)
ReplyDeleteHow to be set free from the bonds of prayer chains
Skipping a Prayer Link in the Holy Armor of God since 2009
SCL: how to tell when your prayer chain link has expired
wv - pasno
def: a location in a large southern state
ie: I just got back from Pasno, Texas
I don't have any suggestions, I just want to vote.
ReplyDelete1st choice: Jonathan Ferguson's
"Should I pray or should I go" (might want to add 'now')
2nd choice: Brian Miller's
"Up the Prayer Chain without a Paddle"
The real reason I switched Internet Service Providers
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Going From Gorges to Gorgeous - Leaving Love with Love.
ReplyDeleteI just like word plays :)
WV: Cowstork -
Farmboy: "Mummy (Mommy for the Americans), where do calves come from?"
Farmer's wife: "You see... when a mummy and a daddy cow love each other very much... they moo for the cowstork to bring them a calf..."
SCL: Abandoning Email accounts for God
ReplyDeleteUpdate to previous, due to suggestion:
ReplyDeleteShould I Pray or Should I Go Now
Thanks for the suggestion maretta!
SCL: You've Got Knee-mail
ReplyDelete"Unchained Malady: What to do when Christian spam has got you singin' the blues."
ReplyDeleteSCL: How to Tactfully Say, "No, I Don't Want to Pray for You"
ReplyDeleteJarrod Haggard. You are hilariously creative.... I was laughing at all of yours.
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Unsubscribing to prayer chain emails - we'll have time to catch up in heaven
ReplyDeleteYou Gotta Pray Just To Make It Today...Because I'm Not Going To
ReplyDeleteBreaking Up (Prayer Chains)Is Hard To Do
1. Jesus doesn't want us to Gorge.
ReplyDelete2. Jesus Knows What's in My Junk Folder (even though I don't).
3. J.U.N.K. Folder stands for Jesus Understands No Kneeling.
P.S. Snopes.com should have a prayer request verification option.
Stuff Christians Like: Who signed me up for this anyway?
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Potato Salad - the politics of church potlucks
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: "I think I'm getting The Call", or Why God Told Me to Dump You NOW.
Stuff Christians Like: Mandatory Sex Talks at Youth Retreats
Stuff Christians Like: Bashing Current Church Trends
Stuff Christians Like: Recycling 5-year-old Top 40 hits.
Stuff Christians Like: Feeling guilty for not buying "Christian".
Escaping the shackles of a prayer chain
ReplyDeleteBreaking free from the prayer chain-gang
Finding the key to escaping prayer chains
Escaping prayer chains without theatrics
Escaping prayer chains with the governor's pardon
Getting unshackled from prayer chains
Looking for prayer chain escape doors
Innocently leaving a prayer chain without feeling guilty
I am the prayer chain weakest link. Goodbye
Freeing yourself from the bondage of a prayer chain
Breaking the chain of prayer with love
Leaving a prayer chain without feeling guilty
Politely breaking the lock of prayer chains
Quitting a prayer chain you can't remember joining
Stuff Christians Like: Somebody's Gotta Pray, But It's Not Me
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: NOT delivering the knee-mail
ReplyDeleteSick (and tired!) of praying for the sick and tired? Take nap instead. Because God said so.
ReplyDeletePsalm 118:5
ReplyDeleteIn my anguish I cried to the LORD, and he answered by setting me free.
Titling a chapter with a bible verse!
I Never got your email prayer request: Blame it on Bill Gates, you knew he was the antichrist anyway.
ReplyDeleteGalatians 5:1
ReplyDeleteIt is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of pray chain slavery
This one is inspired by the picture of Jon at his first "meet and greet".
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: _________________ (aka, The chapter I asked my readers to name.)
Stuff Christians Like: How to create a new email address (or, how to avoid ditching from a prayer chain email and making everyone think you don't love Jesus enough.)
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Breaking the Prayer Chain Habit
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: When the Prayer Chain Strangles
Stuff Christians Like: Riding off into the Sunset of the Chain Gang
Stuff Christians Like: Wishing there was a transdermal patch for chain pray-ers.
ReplyDeleteI'm just not that into you.....prayer chain!
ReplyDeleteBreaking the Cycle: A Redemptive-Historical Approach to not Praying for Strangers.
ReplyDelete"when No Means No: Telling a prayer chain it's time to let go."
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: God created email rules for prayer chains like yours.
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Not Praying For Strangers
ReplyDeleteBlocking a brother-in-Christ's requests
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Avoiding the Responsibility to Pray for Strangers
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Spam Filters.
ReplyDelete"God Love 'Em ... But I'm Leaving"
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Ignoring Prayer for Those We Don't Know
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Avoiding Rednecks in Need of Prayer.
ReplyDeleteWow, 95 comments already and some comedy genius to boot!
ReplyDeleteMy favourites;
Nb with;
"SCL: The Missing Link".
and
Jonathan Ferguson with;
"SCL: Should I Pray or Should I Go Now?".
Both are excellent and I can't top either.
Regards,
Quitting cold turkey from chain praying (without a patch)
ReplyDeletePrayer chains: Breaking the yoke without laying an egg
What's the safe word? - Painlessly firing the prayer chain dominatrix
Stuff Christians Like: I'm Just Not That Into You.
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Figuring out how to break a chain without making the baby Jesus cry.
ReplyDeleteSCL: Love is an Action, Now Stop Sending Me These Chain Mails!
ReplyDeleteSCL: How to say "I don't love you THAT much" while still loving Jesus.
SCL: Set me free from these Chains (e-mails) that bind me (spam up my inbox).
SCL: One Christian's Treasure is Another Christian's Junk Mail.
SCL: Letting go of the things I know that will drive me crazy if you don't stop sending me your e-mails.
SCL: One by one your e-mails steal my sanity.
SCL: I have a special NEW e-mail where all of my prayer requests go. It's called iprayfortheworld24_7@superchristian.com
SCL: Please unsubscribe me in the name of Jesus.
Stuff Christians Like: Just because it's a prayer request, that doesn't mean it's not spam.
ReplyDeleteSCL: God, You know I'm just going to delete it everyday, anyway.
ReplyDeleteSCL: If God is bigger than the boogy man, then He can help these river people without me getting this e-mail.
SCL: Why I'm giving up prayer e-mails for lent.
Ridding the email inbox of SPAM: Surplus Prayers About Missionaries
ReplyDeleteSCL: yelling "Jesussssss!" as you hit delete. (obviously this title would benefit from strategic placement after a chapter on what to do when you run into former Bible study co-members...)
ReplyDeleteSCL: feeling guilty as you scan you junk mail folder (and not just because of the porn ads)
SCL: Saying "I don't love you enough to pray for you" in a God-glorifying way.
I'm Sorry, Prayer Chains Aren't My Gift
ReplyDeletePrayer Chains vs. Eternal Damnation
w.v.- Sestif
"Oh, I love the decor. It's so very sestif."
Binding and Loosing: The Biblical Way to Loose the Chains of Prayer
ReplyDelete"sorry, my email is athiest."
ReplyDelete"how to convince people you are praying enough as it is."
this one might be over the line, but i thought it was funny-
"pornography and prayer chains: what we'll admit to just to make people think we avoid the internet."
Stuff Christians Like: Praying about Not Praying (or Asking God to Not Destroy You for Spamming Prayer Chain Emails).
ReplyDeletewv- menamis
How a grammatically incorrect person introduces themselves to a group. "Hi, me nam is John."
In honor of Milli Vanilli, "Blame It On The Prayer Chain"
ReplyDeleteI had to come with another one, just to share this word verification.
w.v. upent
"U-pent?"
"Nah, I'll wait until Sunday."
"I'll add you to my prayer chain."
Stuff Christians Like: Making others feel 14% less holy for quitting prayer chains. (But it's okay, because my Twitter message will put them all in the dust.)
ReplyDeleteIf your email prayer chain causes you to sin - cut it off
ReplyDeleteMaking sure no one thinks you hate gorges
ReplyDelete(maybe an intro page? couldn't help it, I haven't slept in 30 hours. Sorry in advance.)
ReplyDeleteThe Art of Making a Prayer Chain Break-Up With You
1. Stop answering most of their e-mails (but not all).
2. When you DO answer, make sure it's in short, clipped statements.
3. Forget your sign-up date.
4. Remember their birthday, but give them a recycled gift that you KNOW they saw you get at the Christmas party last year.
5. Casually comment about the amazing prayer group that you...oh, wait, nevermind.
6. "Accidentally" forward a prayer request from a rival prayer chain.
7. When they ask you to pray, your default answer should be, "I'm really tired. You know, I was hanging out with the guys...and stuff."
8. Send them an anonymous link that shows a picture of you on the message board of another prayer chain having great meaningful conversations, trying prayers you've never prayed before. Lol'ing and lots of ROFL's. Let them see that you truly are happy somewhere else.
9. Finally, send them another anonymous message that reminds them, "If you love it, set it free, if it returns, it's yours to keep".
When they finally delete you from the mailing list, you might feel a little regret. Maybe you WERE happier with them...
DO NOT FALL FOR THIS!
It is a ruse, and they'll do their best to put up lots of pretty pictures on their homepage. Maybe spruce it up with some new borders, or wallpapers. Maybe even a shorter, sexier header with fonts they never had when they were with you. They might even change from blogspot to wordpress!
I know, I know, you've never seen them look this good before! Right now, I need you to stand strong my friend. You are the one who decided that you didn't want to break their heart, so you were distant and unsure until they finally let you go.
Just remember, this was YOUR idea, so hold firm, keep your head up, and remember how unhappy you were before. They kept asking you to pray for people you didn't know. Asked if you could drive someone to church on Sunday. Invited you to potlucks with strangers, or relatives you've never heard of. They even asked if you could babysit for sister Mary Beth! Who's that? I don't know either. It was just moving too fast.
So just walk away, with your head held high,your dignity intac...um, head held high, and tell yourself that it's the best thing for both of you. And.never.ever.look.back.
Stuff Christians Like: I have to remove myself from your prayer chain and it's all Bill Gates' fault.
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Cast Thy unsolicited prayer chains to the wayside!!
Stuff Christians Like: Exorcise your Inbox for only $49.95! And if you order before midnight......
I've prayed about it, God's leading me off your prayer chain.
ReplyDeleteSCL: "I'm just not that into you."
ReplyDeleteSCL: "The Long Goodbye"
SCL: "Letting Your No be No"
SCL: "I Prayed About it, and..."
SCL: "Feeling the feeling of
SCL: The river people... Really, with this?
ReplyDeleteSCL: Praying for Mine, Not Yours
WV: carlate - when we get to the carlate, we get to church late, then we all begin to hate...and have to pray and get it straight before we go inside to pray
Stuff Christians Like: Breaking the "How in the heck did I get on this prayer chain" Chain That Binds
ReplyDeleteI vote for any of Bryan Miller's.
ReplyDelete"Dear Admin, I love praying for you, but I want to pray for you in more unspecific ways": How to remove yourself from prayer lists without sounding like you left.
ReplyDeleteIs it holier to remove your name from a prayer list or let the prayer emails pile up in your spam and send up a quick little prayer when you empty the spam folder?
ReplyDelete@LexLaura
ReplyDeleteThat last one was FUNNY.
"How to Cease Without Praying"
ReplyDeleteWow -
ReplyDeleteThis is going to be a tough contest. There were 82 written pages of comments for the roose book. I'm hoping we break 100 with this one.
@Chandler
"sorry, my email is athiest."
hilarious
Jon
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ReplyDeleteSCL: Changing Email Addresses Because of Too Much "Spam" (aka Prayer Emails) and Only Telling Their Six Best Friends
ReplyDelete(Deleted my first comment because I'm the under-slept mom of a newborn and used "they're" instead of "their" in the first comment as if I didn't major in journalism.)
Stuff Christians Like: Do you have the blues? Are you left with much to lose? Well then here's a little jingle to help you mix and... stop well intentioned people you don’t know.
ReplyDelete@ Jon & Krista Mobley: "I am the prayer chain weakest link. Goodbye."
ReplyDeleteLOL! That's good.
SCL: "Getting Going When the Going's GOD"
ReplyDeleteSCL: "Killing the Prayer Chain Softly"
SCL: "Leaving the Prayer Chain"
SCL: "Where God Guides, He Provides"
SCL: "Refocusing"
SCL: "Because I Just Got Married"
SCL: "I'm Really Praying About It"
SCL: "I Need to Spend More Time in the Word... and other excuses for leaving a prayer chain."
SCL: "Acts 16:26- The Earthquake You Need to Break the Prayer Chain"
SCL: "Saying Goodbye Without Saying Goodbye"
SCL: "Chains, Schmains"
SCL: "Finding Your Calling Outside of Prayer Chains"
SCL: "Prayer Chain or Gossip Group?: How to Leave the Prayer Chain Well"
SCL: "We Know that Goodbye is not the End"
SCL: "When Your Prayer Time Suffers: Leaving the Prayer Chain"
SCL: "Prayer Chains. What it isn't Good For!"
SCL: "Being 'PC' When Leaving a Prayer Chain"
SCL: "Loving God but Not Prayer Chains"
SCL: "Leaving Room for God's Wrath- How to Leave a Prayer Chain"
SCL: "Dear Prayer Chain Warriors, please pray for me as I leave the Prayer Chain"
SCL: "Jesus Made Me Do It"
SCL: "I'm just not catching the vision"
SCL: "Put the Prayer Chain Down, and Walk Away"
SCL: "Let Go (of the Prayer Chain), Let God"
SCL: "Retiring Before Your Time"
SCL: "Packing It In: Leaving the Prayer Chain"
SCL: "Left Behind- The (Graceful) Prayer Chain Exit"
SCL: "A New Direction- Away From the Prayer Chain"
SCL: "Party of One- I'm Starting My Own Prayer Chain"
SCL: "The Prayer Chain Handoff- Finding Your Replacement"
SCL: "Sanctioned Gossip- Leaving the Prayer Chain"
SCL: "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye (to the Prayer Chain)"
SCL: "I Need to Figure This Out- Saying Goodbye to the Prayer Chain"
SCL: "It's Not Goodbye- It's See You Later!"
SCL: "If You Leave Me Now... and other Chicago hits to assist in the Prayer Chain exit"
SCL: "Let's Just Be Friends"
SCL: "Why I Left the Prayer Chain- and other stories from Prayer Ministries"
SCL's Guide to Leaving the Prayer Chain
SCL: "Only Jesus said He'd Never Leave"
SCL: "Jumping Ship- Leaving the Prayer Chain without Drowning"
SCL: "Take Me Out Coach"
SCL: "Updating the Prayer Chain Roster"
SCL: "God is calling me..."
SCL: "The Children's Ministry Needs Me"
SCL: "Please Excuse Me- How I successfully left the Prayer Chain; AND HOW YOU CAN TOO!"
SCL: "I've prayed about it, and..."
SCL: "I have peace about this..."
SCL: "I've prayed about it, and I have peace."
SCL: "I just read 'Boundaries', and the Prayer Chain is cluttering my yard."
SCL: "Boundaries- Saying No When You Didn't Say Yes"
SCL: "Boundaries- Saying No When You Can't Remember Saying Yes"
SCL: "Timing is Everything- Planning Your Exit from the Prayer Chain"
SCL: "IDK"
SCL: "Ordering Your Private World- How to leave the prayer chain."
"SCL's (number) Unfounded Laws of the Prayer Chain" (in Maxwell theme)
SCL: "SPAM comes in a can, Prayer Chains Shouldn't"
SCL: "SPAM filter: Prayer Chains"
SCL: "Unspoken: Leaving a Prayer Chain Quietly"
SCL: "The Gift of Going Second: How to Effectively Eliminate the Prayer Chain"
SCL: "Chain Reaction: Gossip or Prayer Chain?"
SCL: "I'm OUT!"
SCL: "Help! I've gotten into a Prayer Chain and can't get out!"
SCL: "Unspoken: He Knows Our Needs, and Now I'm Leaving"
SCL: "Bowing Out: The Prayer Chain Exit:
SCL: "Throwing in the Prayer Towel: Leaving the Prayer Chain"
SCL: "Prayer Calendar: How to successfully setup your exit from the Prayer Chain"
SCL: "What Prayer Chain?"
This is sooooo much fun!
~Nick
These chains can't hold me down.
ReplyDelete"I've been praying that you'll become a better steward of the emails you send to me."
ReplyDeleteThese made me LOL.
ReplyDelete@CharityStill
SCL: It's Not the River People, It's Me
@chandler
SCL: Sorry, My Email Is Athiest
Although I might be more verbose with the latter in the interest of clarity...
SCL: I May Be a Christian, But My Inbox Is Atheist
Good stuff.
peace|dewde
http://dewde.com
Tear This Page Out and Give it 15 of Your Friends Else You're Going to Hell.
ReplyDeleteHmm. That really needs to be shorter...
Stuff Christians Like: How to make an exit when you haven't got a prayer.
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Removing Responsibility While Still Seeming Holy
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Bowing Out Of The Prayer Chain Because You're "Already So Busy Praying For Those Orphans In Africa."
ReplyDeleteAlso, I love Shark Bait's "Leaving With Love." I think that sums it up nicely. :)
"Fwd:" means please delete
ReplyDeletethat's the rule I live by
SCL: No I will not pray for you, but I still love you.
ReplyDeleteThe Leg Sweep - so right for so many situations.
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeletesorry, i didnt look through to see if these were mentioned:
ReplyDelete"freedom in Christ from email prayer chain bondage"
"i care, but not enough for daily prayer"
I third this vote:
ReplyDeleteJonathon Ferguson's "Should I Pray or Should I Go"
SCL: Leaving Prayer Chains: Feeling the Fear and Doing It Anyway
ReplyDeleteExtolling the power of other people's prayers.
ReplyDeleteSCL: How Now Shall We Leave?
ReplyDeleteSCL: Here Am I, Send Me
SCL: Sent By God?
Okay, I can't read through all of these right now, so I hope I didn't copy anyone.
ReplyDeleteSCL: Being Afraid of What Other Christians Think
SCL: Fearing "Remove Me" from a Prayer Chain Email Removes Them From the Lamb's Book of Life (too long)
SCL: Deleting Forwards
SCL: Forwarding Forwards
(I don't forward emails EVER http://www.borrowedbreath.com/2009/03/12/a-venting-session/ )
SCL: Cursing the Person Who Sent the Email Rather Than Praying for the Person In the Email.
wv: hamisher
def: a silken scarf worn by forward-fashion men
"Did you see Jon sporting that burgandy hamisher?"
Stuff Christians Like: Advise for prevent christian gigga pets and stuffed unicorns from invading the sunday school youth.
ReplyDeleteHate the Spam, Love the Sender.
ReplyDeleteDidn't God already answer that prayer? Well I did my part!
ReplyDeleteI vote for carlos benjamin - benjphoto.com: How to make an exit when you don't have a prayer or Chandler with the athiest inbox. Although so many others made me laugh, theirs were the most orginal.
ReplyDelete"How to make an exit when you don't have a prayer"
ReplyDeleteThat rocks!
SCL: Chains Being Broken - How-to unsubscribe from an e-mail prayer chain without being labeled a "backslider."
ReplyDeleteSCL: Secretly wondering what Paul and Silas would do to break our e-mail prayer chains.
SCL: WWPaSD? Advice from our favorite Bible heroes on how to unsubscribe with dignity.
SCL: Praying that You Won't Be Rejected after Unsubscribing from Prayer Chains.
ReplyDeleteSCL: Not Deleting Prayer Chain Emails that You Don't Care about because You Are Guilt-ridden.
SCL: Wishing River Gorges Didn't Exist.
"if it makes you feel any better, i was never really praying for you in the first place."
ReplyDeleteSCL: Using Prayer Requests as Gossip Time, or why the prayer team ladies never should have left high school.
ReplyDeleteSCL: Knowing part of your tithe is paying for your metro worship leader's perfect hair.
SCL: Reasons I'm happy to not be a post-college single.
SCL: Excusing your naughty language with biblical precidents
SCL: How we create crazy youth groups, one generic cookie at a time.
SCL: Why dentists love VBS
SCL: The Name Drop
SCL: Name-Dropping Jesus at completely inappropriate times
SCL: That old lady has a mean leg drop...
SCL: Throwing Skittles, Leg-Dropping, and other activities that should be taught in seminary
Feeling guilty for reporting spam.
ReplyDelete-or-
How Christians Steal Your Identy
@Leanne, L.O.L!!!! :D
ReplyDelete"Tear This Page Out and Give it 15 of Your Friends Else You're Going to Hell"
How perfect for a book... I think this would pair nicely with a pretty angel illustration, a photo of two kittens in a basket and some praying hands clip-art.... at least, that what my Christian spam come decorated with, haha! I really blush for the friends who send me that stuff!
I'm a fan of "Unspoken: Leaving a Prayer Chain Quietly"
ReplyDeleteSCL: Letting Other People Pray for Aunt Margaret's Neighbor-Three-Houses-Down Who Has a Really Big Splinter
SCL: "Where Two or Three Are Gathered," or Why My Prayer's Kind of Redundant Anyway
"SCL: Friends Are Friends Forever...except in my inbox"
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Do all in love
ReplyDeleteThe key to set you free: how to quit an email prayer chain without looking like you hate God and don't care about the river people.
ReplyDeleteHoly Spam: How to handle the email prayer chain
ReplyDeleteChains don't heal people, Jesus Heals People
ReplyDeleteSCL: Prayer Chain Mail in the Spiritual Armory
ReplyDeleteSCL: Breaking the Chain
SCL: A Chain Is Only As Strong As It's Weakest Link, in this case, Me.
SCL: Happy to Pray, Just Not For the River People
Let's Be Honest, I'm Just Not That Into You
ReplyDeleteSealed With a (Holy) Kiss
A Kiss For Luck and I'm On My Way
Escaping the Seemingly Inescapable
So it's like this...I've been really busy and I feel like my participation time is limited and it's just not fair to you for me to continue without a genuine passion for what I'm doing...besides, you have plenty of others who can do it...
It's Not Like I Don't Care, I'm Just Being A Good Steward of My Time
SCL: Modern Technology = More Ways To Guilt You Into Praying
ReplyDeleteSCL: Holy Spam
I want to invite everyone to visit our website at www.emailministry.webs.com and "sign up" to receive our emails. Every two weeks we send out a cartoon Gospel tract with the salvation message of Jesus Christ attached, all you do is read and forward thus spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
ReplyDeleteThank you and God Bless.
I want to invite everyone to visit our website at www.emailministry.webs.com and "sign up" to receive our emails. Every two weeks we send out a cartoon Gospel tract with the salvation message of Jesus Christ attached, all you do is read and forward thus spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
ReplyDeleteThank you and God Bless.
SCL: Will the circle be unbroken? No. I'm outta here.
ReplyDeleteWV: cedectur-deep South for "see that detour"
Oh my gawd, didnchu cedectur sign back there? Y'almost got us killt!
My Faves so far:
ReplyDelete1. "Why, I'm giving up prayer e-mails for lent."
2. "Should I pray or should I go?"
3. the one about Exorcising your email account
4. "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Oh that's me"
SCL: Holy SPAM: It's what's for dinner, tonight.
SCL: Convincing people sending prayer chains is a sin.
SCL: The only time you wish your computer would crash...
SCL: Avoiding your email like the plague? How to get rid Prayer SPAM 101
SCL: Leg dropping your friends that send you those emails
SCL: Throwing virtual skittles
SCL: The Art of Ignoring Prayer Chain Emails
SCL: Clicking "Move to SPAM" without feeling like you have to repent.
SCL: The Guilt-Free Answer to Prayer Chain Emails
SCL: The Holy Click "Move to SPAM folder"
SCL: NO, my best friend's, foster parent's, second cousin's girlfriend doesn't live in the Nantahala River Gorge Region.
SCL: When caring is not sharing
this you may include in your actual post, and not the chapter title... but something about giving out fake emails, or switching email addresses every 6 months... i def know peeps that do that.
SLC: Deleting As An Act of Faith
ReplyDeleteSCL: I love God and I really do care, but this just has to stop. Ending a tenuous relationship with spam-like prayer chains.
ReplyDeleteI would name the chapter "Francis"
ReplyDeletebecause honestly... your not going to find a much cooler name than that..
Stuff Christians Like: The Holy Hangover or Finding a Way out of the Commitments You Made While on a Rededication High.
ReplyDelete"Stuff Christians Like: Chain Smoking"
ReplyDeleteSCL: Busting the Mold and Breaking the Chain
ReplyDeleteSCL:Breaking Chains with the Strength of Sampson
SCL: Chains, Brains, and False Claims- When Prayer Chain Emails Go Bad
SCL: I Can Still Hear You Saying You Would Never Break the Chain
(fleetwood mac)
Stuff Christians Like: Fasting from Technology.
ReplyDeletewv: nolder - refusing to age.
"I'm nolder than the last time you saw me."
Stuff Christians Like: The Electronic Sympathy Scoop.
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Going on a Prairie Quest to get away from the Prayer Requests.
ReplyDeleteMe Smart man, you Chain?
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Quitting Prayer-Chain Crack.
ReplyDeleteSCL: Quitting Prayer Chains--Almost as Hard as Quitting Drugs. (Or is it harder?)
SCL: Fasting, it's not just from food.
ReplyDeleteSCL: Jesus was never on an email prayer chain, and I wanna be like Jesus.
SCL: Jesus wants me to pray for China instead, sorry.
SCL: Don't break a leg, break a prayer chain!
SCL: I survived the Prayer Chain, and all I got was this lousy email!
SCL: Deleting an email without deleting a friendship.
SCL: When the Prayer Chain Joins the Same Category as Erectile Dysfunction
ReplyDeleteis that grody? ok.
SCL: Picking off the mass emails that have words which bum me out...sorry gorge folk. Peace be with you.
This is going to be very, very difficult to pick. Especially since you can still add ideas until Tuesday. I was going to pick 5 for everyone to vote on but will probably need to pick 10 instead. I'll grab those 10 and then post them and then everyone can decide which headline gets printed in the book.
ReplyDeleteJon
"Spiritual Spam" (by Dilato) is my favorite so far!!
ReplyDeleteHow about...
ReplyDeleteBelieving Your Link in a Prayer Chain is the One that Holds it Together.
Or at least something along those lines....
Being Spiritually Blackmailed Via Email, Like When You Have To Forward Something Because Jesus Wasn't Ashamed Of You Or Pray For People You Really Want To Look Up On Snopes But You're Not Sure The Holy Spirit Will Let You
ReplyDeleteLeaving a prayer chain without looking like you hate prayer.
ReplyDeleteFeeling guilty for deleting-without-reading prayer chain emails from a church you went to once, two years ago.
Saying to a prayer chain moderator, "It's not you. It's not me. It's Jesus."
Saying, "I think Jesus wants me to focus on other ministries" when what you really mean is "I don't want to be on your prayer chain anymore."
WV: Coptor - slang for helicopter. "Man, that 'coptor just about hit your worship eagle!"
All Hell's About to Break Loose Cuz I Just Broke the Prayer Chain
ReplyDeleteIt was Me that Broke the Prayer Chain. Put Down Those Stones Please!
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Love: How To Murder a Prayer Chain Lovingly
ReplyDeleteStuff Christians Like: Getting off the prayer chain without being put on it.
ReplyDeleteOh, and...
ReplyDeleteSCL: Getting the prayer chain to quit you, so you don't have to quit them.
And being the 200th comment.