So someone is using my church email address to sign me up for all kinds of things.

Thus far, this person has signed me up for:

• a Tunnel Bear Club (no idea what that is)
• contacted a counselor saying I need help (I actually do need help, and do use counseling). But said that I was a father to two sons and serving as a pastor of a wayward congregation. Clearly this person doesn’t know the Little Church or Lakewood Grace.
• a National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (this is my favorite. Cracked me up!)
• as a volunteer United Church of Christ (No thanks. Already pretty busy with my church and denomination), Focus on the Family (I have great respect for Focus on the Family)
• and the list goes on.

And using my name and email to leave comments on other church’s web pages. That part is not too cool. I have no idea what you’re saying using my name and email.

So, you. Yeah you! The you that is impersonating me. I’ve got a couple of things to say to you.

First, whoever is doing this, you’re pretty creative. A good mixture of stuff.

Second, get a life! Try Jesus. He can really change your life around. He changed mine!

Finally, if you are checking out my blog and church web page because you got a weird message from my church email address, please know it wasn’t me.

It is so easy to give opinions.

It doesn’t cost a thing to go on Yelp or Google and give a poor rating.

But what we forget is that every business and every restaurant we so non-chalantly rate is someone’s life. They have given themselves fully to their business. They want it to succeed. It’s so easy to hide behind the screen and give someone a low rating.

I get that we live in a highly mobile and social media savvy world.

But it’s a cruel world where the only thing necessary to become a critic is a screen and access to the internet.