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Sometimes, we fall in love on mission trips even though we know we’ll break up when we get back. Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend’s prayer because she’s asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship. Sometimes, you think, “I wish I had a t-shirt that said ‘I direct deposit my tithe’ so people wouldn’t judge me.” Sometimes, the stuff that comes with faith is funny. This is that stuff. Jonathan Acuff’s Stuff Christians Like is your field guide to all things Christian. In it you’ll learn the culinary magic of the crock-pot. Think you’ve got a Metro worship leader—Use Acuff’s checklist. Want to avoid a prayer handholding faux pas? Acuff has you covered. Like a satirical grenade, Acuff brings us the humor and honesty that galvanized more than a million online readers from more than 200 countries in a new portable version. Welcome to the funny side of faith.

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208 pages
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English
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Zondervan
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March 23 2010
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13.97 x 1.32 x 21.59 cm
ISBN-10

0310319943
ISBN-13

978-0310319948
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After creating his answer to the blog 'Stuff White People Like,' Christian blogger Acuff saw his satirical Web site become a popular Internet destination. His best essays, accompanied by childlike illustrations, comprise this book, which maintains the structure of his short posts. From sexual purity to crock pots to clapping during worship, Acuff uses a standup comedy style to laugh with Christians at their private conventions. Readers will learn the unspoken rules of Christian living, including the (in)appropriate use of God's name to avoid a speeding ticket and obligations to 'think about going into full-time ministry at least once every three years.' Entries such as the diagram of a metrosexual worship leader mimic the truth-telling wit of the Web site ChurchMarketingSucks.com and will appeal most to young Christian hipsters. Sarcasm masks a deeper layer of commentary that exposes hypocrisies and faith flaws, and readers may want to amend these behaviors to avoid becoming the subject of Acuff's newest jokes on his blog. Acuff's ability to point out unbecoming idiosyncrasies while inducing a knee slap is stuff readers will like. (Apr.) -- Publishers Weekly

Yes, the popular blog-turned-paperback Stuff Christians Like is a direct rip-off of the even more popular blog-turned-paperback Stuff White People Like. And yes, one of the things Christians like is making their own versions of “secular” intellectual property. Acuff’s is not the first book of insider evangelical observational humor (see Patricia Klein, Joel Kilpatrick, Matthew Paul Turner), but his background as a trend hunter at an advertising company makes it sharper than most. It’s also far more accurate sociology than all the sour-faced “explaining evangelicalism” books that came out after Bush’s reelection. -- Christianity Today

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Sometimes, we fall in love on mission trips even though we know we'll break up when we get back. Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend's prayer because she's asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship. Sometimes, you think, 'I wish I had a t-shirt that said 'I direct deposit my tithe' so people wouldn't judge me.' Sometimes, the stuff that comes with faith is funny. This is that stuff. Jonathan Acuff's Stuff Christians Like is your field guide to all things Christian. In it you'll learn the culinary magic of the crock-pot. Think you've got a Metro worship leader---Use Acuff's checklist. Want to avoid a prayer handholding faux pas? Acuff has you covered. Like a satirical grenade, Acuff brings us the humor and honesty that galvanized more than a million online readers from more than 200 countries in a new portable version. Welcome to the funny side of faith.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zondervan (March 23 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0310319943
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0310319948
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 208 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.32 x 21.59 cm

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JON ACUFF is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including his Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller, Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done. He’s an INC Magazine Top 100 Leadership speaker and has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at conferences and companies around the world including: FedEx, Nissan, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Chick-fil-A, Nokia, and Comedy Central. His large and highly engaged social media following includes nearly 300,000 Twitter followers, more than 187,000 Facebook followers, more than 125,000 Instagram followers, and more than 90,000 email subscribers who look to him for his unique blend of humor, honesty, and hope. He lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and two teenage daughters. His latest book, Soundtracks, will be available nationwide April 6, 2021.

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Chris Cooke

... is as insightful and thought provoking as it is funny. A great read and will be a great ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 28, 2015

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It's is as insightful and thought provoking as it is funny. A great read and will be a great addition to your library.

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it cracks me up left and write the writer is so funny def worth the buy I would recomend to anyone

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 2, 2010

Jon Acuff's blog-now-book "Stuff Christians Like" is a direct rip-off from the highly popular blog/book "Stuff White People Like." On purpose. Because one of the things that Christians like is ripping stuff off.

This book certainly wins my (completely arbitrary and made up) award for Best Introduction Ever:

If you buy this book, God will make you rich.

I was going to say, "If you read this book," but I'm pretty sure people who get it at the library won't receive the same amount of awesomeness as the people who buy it.

Acuff is the right mix of laugh out loud funny and poignant insight. As someone that appreciates and enjoys satire but finds most Christian satire as savouring strongly of bitterness (my love), I appreciate that Jon is funny without being hurtful, poking fun at the stuff while holding love for the people that do it. It's gentle, dorky humour about the things we all know we do.

Small essays on topics ranging from church to love to the Bible and even, the youth camp "Saturday Night Cryfest" (as the wife of a former youth pastor, um, YES), Acuff gives me the sense that he is laughing with us, not at us.

My personal favourites:

* Using "Faith Like a Child" as an escape pod from difficult theological discussions.
* Watching R-rated movies but only if they are violent.
* Judging fundamentalists for being judgmental
* Hating on mega churches
* Using "Let me pray about it" as a euphemism for "no"
* Falling in love on a mission trip
* The metro sexual worship leader
* Fearing your church will do something wacky the time you invite a friend
* Wishing you had an easy job, like one at church
* Side hugs

To be honest, on Jon Acuff's blog, my favourite posts are almost always what he refers to as his "Serious Wednesday" posts. They are worth subscribing to his blog for, my friends.

Verdict: If you have spent any amount of time around evangelical Christians, you'll laugh, you'll groan, you'll cry, you'll feel like someone read your mail. However, it is definitely a sub-culture book for us evangelicals.

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Ryan Filsinger

It's like being on the inside of an inside joke.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 12, 2010

You know that feeling you get when you are on the inside of an 'inside joke'. You know those stupid references to situations that happened on some road trip or outing with friends. Usually it's just a stupid word or catch phrase that outside of its context makes absolutely zero sense, but people who were there will still shout it out 2 years later and everyone that knows what is going on will laugh and remember, but everyone else who wasnt a part of that group will just look at you funny and think youre weird. DIDDLY IN THE MIDDLY, BINGO BANGO BONGO! Yup, I just threw one out there, now this blog post just go awkward... anyway. That exact situation is what Stuff Christians Like book by author/blogger/humorist Jon Acuff is. Its like reading 250 odd pages of inside jokes that most us Christians get, and laugh at because weve experienced it.

Reading through his book, is like someone has been in my head for all 28 years of my life, writing down everything I thought, experienced and have pondered about Christianity. Its really kind of a surreal experience that only a small subset of people will get. This book isnt for everyone, but for those who it is for, will laugh, cry and say to themselves, yup Jon you nailed that. Cause you know what? Ive Booty, God, Bootyd before, Ive had the internal conversation about how do I break up with my small group, and Ive used the words Missional Postmodern Relevance in a sentence before. In the end though, the best part of Jons satire is that he usually ends it with a nugget of truth. Like in an OHenry bar, where the comedy is the chocolaty goodness but you know you just bought the bar because of the nugget on the inside. I continue to read Jon because hes funny, but mainly because he lands on some truth that I needed to hear or be reaffirmed of.

I recommend you read his blog, don't skip serious Wednesday, and support the guy by picking up his book. Its only $10 and makes perfect reading material for those moments when you need to not take yourself so seriously and have a good laugh.

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T. Cleaver

Can't put it down!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 5, 2010

This book is hilarious. It arrived on Thursday, just before I was leaving to visit my future in-laws, so I took it with me, thinking I might be able to sneak a few pages here and there. On Thursday night, I arrived before my fiance and the house was nearly empty, so I curled up in the corner of the sofa and read for a little bit, thoroughly enjoying it. When everyone else arrived home, the book ended up on the coffee table where it (sort of) stayed for the rest of the weekend.

My fiance's brother picked it up and couldn't stop laughing. He read through the entire book in the course of a day, reading out parts that struck him as particularly amusing. My future father-in-law was frequently in stitches (he is generally an even-tempered man). And a group of his friends were over one morning and the book was passed around, laughed over and eagerly discussed.

It pokes fun at the little quirks Christian culture has and it gives us permission to laugh at ourselves. It helps us to stop taking ourselves so seriously and, wonderfully, points out the ways our thoughts aren't true. Jon Acuff does a great job of mixing humor and sincerity, and, on his blog especially, continues to point to God's great love.

I've already thought of several people I know who would love this book. I definitely recommend it.

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ceri

Well worth a read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 3, 2019

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This is a lighter side of Christianity. Often heard myself agreeing out loud. However, among the jokes is some very thought provoking material.

J.A.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 18, 2014

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So many funny and relatable topics!

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Matt and Mary Bourne

Noah's Bark

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Quality read & very funny. Like Chicken Soup for the Soul for contemporary Xians Young and old alike. And red bearded uncles.

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Sally Poyzer

Hilarious

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on September 16, 2017

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I'd recommend this book to anyone who's been a Christan for 5 years or more...I'm guessing it will get progressively funnier for each decade you've had in church. It could really be titled 'Silly things Christians do' because that's pretty much what it is. It's good to have a laugh at some of our silliness. I laughed out loud many times - I think the prayer circle was one of my favourites! Probably not one for new Christians: a) they won't get most of the jokes and b) it will probably send them running ☺

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Herrlich ehrlich

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on January 12, 2016

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Leicht zu lesen, kurze Kapitel. Viele Christliche Verhaltensweisen werden punktgenau auf den Arm genommen, man fühlt sich selbst ertappt, gleichzeitig kommt man aus dem Schmunzeln nicht heraus. Auf seine Art hinterfragt Jonathan Acuff kirchliche Gewohnheiten und regt dabei auch zum Nach- und Weiterdenken an.

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