#163. The mysterious arrival of the letter "e."

There’s an unwritten rule in Christianity that says if you name your church with the word “point” in it, you are obligated to put an “e” on the end of the word. North Point has fought this law but I’ve seen Andy at church recently and he seems a little worn out from the strain of battling the “e cartel.” Crosspointe, Lifepointe, Truthpointe, there’s a parade of e-equipped churches sweeping the nation. But the whole thing begs two questions: Where did that e come from and what does it mean?

1. The Origin
In the mid to late 1990s, roughly 76% of all Internet start up companies had a lowercase “e” at the front of their name. There was epinions, etrade, eharmony, evite, ebay, e-etc. But it seems lately that less and less companies are using that e. Want to know why? We traded them for it. We agreed to bring the Christian community online in exchange for the exclusive rights to the letter e. Only, to hide this secret barter we put the e on the end of our words instead of the beginning.

2. The Meaning
The easy answer is that e stands for evangelism. Or maybe that it means “everyone” as in everyone is welcome to come. But maybe those are too obvious. Maybe the “e” stands for electronic and the church has a sick techno service instead of a contemporary service where they play Rabbit in the Moon and Moby and you can dance around with glow sticks and whistles. Or the e could be elixir and it’s one of those churches where you dance with snakes and drink poison. (I wish more Christians liked dancing with snakes because I have a good post for that in my pocket.)

I’m cool with the e trend. I like the churches in Atlanta that have done it (shout out to Crosspointe), have a bunch of friends that go to e churches and think the name of the church doesn’t matter nearly as much as the people. This is the ende of the post. I’ve written enoughe. The next one is going to be about Christian speed dating. And it will be funnye.