How Christians Are Like Bad Drivers

I do a lot of driving. Besides living in Monroe County and working, going to Church and almost everything else in Macon; my job has me driving 2-3 days a week up to Marietta to work at Dobbins Air Reserve Base. Besides that, the company I work for has a contract that can on any given day have me driving to the Florida state line, near any of the other surrounding states or anywhere in between. The point of all that is to say - I do a lot of driving - and it occurred to me that in some ways some Christians are like bad drivers.

CONSTANT TURN SIGNAL CLICKER - This Christian sees the signs of the times in everything and points it out to everyone. Not just about earthquakes, famines, and war but they see the signs in a local traffic accident and other mundane events.

THE SLOW DRIVER - The Christian equivalent to this driver is the person who won't move from their current place or do anything new unless God tells them to do it. They haven't figured out that God has already given them a lot of direction in the word and insist that they get direction for everything they do from God.

SLOW DRIVER (BLUE HAIR VERSION) - There is another type of slow driver and those are the people that insist that we can never do anything different from the way that we have always done it. They will threaten to withhold their time and giving to keep something new from coming to their church.

THE SPEEDER - You have seen them blow through your church. From unsaved visitor to the emotional saving event to eager volunteer to burned out and gone in a matter of weeks.

THE SWERVER - Never content with a church for more than a month or two they speed through and are off to the next one - sometimes leaving chaos in their wake.

THE RUBBERNECKER - Is there for the show and to be entertained. The word is not as important as the presentation. This person thrives in a church with a lot of behind the scenes drama and controversy.


I think there is a little bit of some of these in a lot of us - the trick is to realize when we are being a bad driver and then correct it.

These are all the ones I come come up with off the top of my head - are there any others you can think of?