I grew up reading Thrasher magazine, watching the movie “Rad” as many times possible and listening to the rap group, “Public Enemy.”

Why Thrasher? Cause I was a skateboarder.

Why Rad? Because the title says it all, it was rad.

Why Public Enemy? Because growing up on the mean streets of suburban Massachusetts really prepared me for hard laced, urban rap. Clearly.

Given my love for the hip hop, I’m lacking the musical background to truly appreciate something I’ve started to notice lately at church though.

The power ballad worship song.

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(You can’t stop Curtis Honeycutt, you can only hope to contain him. When he’s not tearing it up over on Just Wallpaper he’s been known to drop a funny guest post on Stuff Christians Like. He’s back today with, Subtle Sunday Distractions. Enjoy.)

Subtle Sunday Distractions

Some Sunday mornings are no match for my wandering mind. I’m sitting there, in the back corner of the sanctuary (a few of us fondly refer to it as “sinners’ corner”), where I can see everything that is going on during the Sunday morning worship service. I feel like Simba looking out on his domain, except my domain consists of subtle distractions that keep me from focusing in church.

Everyone can spot a major distraction. There’s the classic screaming kid. The pastor’s mic doesn’t work. Randy Johnson sits in the pew in front of you so you can’t see anything except for the back of his formerly-mulleted cranial region. Those are easy.

I’m talking about those subtle worship distractions that you notice—you may just not notice that you notice them. I’ve taken the liberty to assign point values to each distraction so you can rate the severity of your problem of focusing on Sunday morning …

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