Open Mouth - Insert Foot!

Ever have one of those foot-in-mouth experiences?

The other night after The Refuge I was talking with a couple of the leaders and as we were chatting a lady had walked by on the nearby sidewalk and stopped to ask a question. It was almost fully dark so I couldn't see this lady that well. She went on to ask if we were a part of a church and what the our church was all about.

Well, having just hung out with a bunch of youth all night the first thing that popped into my head was the Sunday school answer "God." So, before I could rationalize this specific response I blurted it out, along with a little chuckle. What I didn't notice is that this lady wasn't joking around as I had hoped she was. Instead she looked right at me and said, "what's so funny about God?" Quickly we also realized that she was definitely on some kind of drug and wasn't thinking logically or cohesively.

Even though I know that a logical person would have taken my answer in jest and not taken it so literally it definitely made me stop and think about how I represent God to others. Are we so quick to make light of what God really means to us? I definitely will think twice before answering another question like that.