Soren Kierkegaard said, “Boredom is the root of all evil.” I despise boredom. There won’t be an ounce of boredom in heaven. There shouldn’t be an ounce of boredom in our churches.

I just read a great post by Tony Morgan: 10 Easy Ways to Make Your Church Services More Boring. It’s worth checking out.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think there will be yawning in heaven It’s just a hunch. Yawning is one of my pet peeves. It means “I’m tired” or “I’m bored.” We won’t be either in heaven. Church should be a No Yawn Zone.

By the way, I want a shirt that says boring is boring or nothing is more boring than boredom. Here’s what I know for sure. The disciples never got bored. Jesus was predictably unpredictable. He was so counterintuitive and countercultural. The disciples learned to expect the unexpected.

Peter Kreeft said, “It doesn’t matter whether it’s a dull life or a dull truth. Dullness, not doubt, is the strongest enemy of faith.”

I think our version of Christianity is too sanitized. I think our vision of Christ is too tame.

Dorothy Sayers said it best: “To do them justice, the people who crucified Jesus did not do so because he was a bore. Quite the contrary; he was too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. We have declawed the lion of Judah and made him a housecat for pale priests and pious old ladies.”

By the way, theology ought to be titillating. Can you imagine anything more exciting than studying about the omnipotent Creator?

In her book, Creed or Chaos, Dorothy Sayers says, “We are constantly assured that churches are empty because preachers insist too much upon doctrine–”dull dogma“–as people call it. The fact is the precise opposite. It is the neglect of dogma that makes for dullness. The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man – the dogma is the drama.”

I love that.