{"id":3886,"date":"2008-07-24T07:45:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T13:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:42:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:42:27","slug":"did-john-mayer-right-the-message-or-was-it-the-other-way-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/did-john-mayer-right-the-message-or-was-it-the-other-way-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Did John Mayer write the Message or was it the other way around?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/71\/JohnMayerCrossroads2007.jpg\/220px-JohnMayerCrossroads2007.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prodigal John<\/strong> has a fun post over on his blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com\">Stuff Christians Like<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/333-john-mayer-secular-chris-tomlin.html\">Christians smuggling <strong>John Mayer<\/strong><\/a> into our camp. I think the original title of the post compared Mayer to Christian artist <strong>Chris Tomlin<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think in some ways, John Mayer has snuck inside the Christian circle like a ninja. Or maybe we smuggled him in, I&#8217;m not sure. The point is, he&#8217;s here, and Christians have embraced him in a surprising way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m personally a fan of John Mayer&#8217;s music. Haven&#8217;t seen him live (other than on TV) but I hear his concerts are great as well.<\/p>\n<p>Along with his post, Prodigal John offers up this quiz for all. The list below is 15 quotes either from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Message_(Bible)\">The Message Bible<\/a> or John Mayer. See if you can tell which is which.<\/p>\n<p>1. Then they get in all their shopping sprees. At day&#8217;s end I&#8217;m ready for sound sleep,<\/p>\n<p>2. Belief is a beautiful armor, but makes for the heaviest sword<\/p>\n<p>3. Now we see everything that&#8217;s going wrong, with the world and those who lead it<\/p>\n<p>4. I dare to believe that the luckless will get lucky someday.<\/p>\n<p>5. She takes you in with your crying eyes, then all at once you have to say goodbye<\/p>\n<p>6. You should have seen that sunrise with your own eyes, it brought me back to life<\/p>\n<p>7. I&#8217;m tired of all this\u00e2\u20ac\u201dso tired. My bed has been floating \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 on the flood of my tears.<\/p>\n<p>8. Take all your wasted honor, every little past frustration, take all of your so called problems, better put them in quotations.<\/p>\n<p>9. She says the bible is all that she reads and prefers that I not use profanity<\/p>\n<p>10. And I will walk outside on my own into the light, the kind of clarity that only comes to me on Sunday&#8217;s shine, Sunday&#8217;s shine<\/p>\n<p>11. I&#8217;ve thrown myself headlong into your arms\u00e2\u20ac\u201d I&#8217;m celebrating your rescue.<\/p>\n<p>12. He comes up empty. A string of zeros.<\/p>\n<p>13. Someday I&#8217;ll fly, someday I&#8217;ll soar<\/p>\n<p>14. Nightly he strolls in our garden, delighting in the flowers, until dawn breathes its light and night slips away<\/p>\n<p>15. You tell me where to go and though I might leave to find it, I&#8217;ll never let your head hit the bed without my hand behind it<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/answers-to-john-mayer-bible-quiz.html\">See the answers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related ::<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/333-john-mayer-secular-chris-tomlin.html\">Stuff Christians Like :: &#8220;Mayer&#8221; Christianity<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/answers-to-john-mayer-bible-quiz.html\">Stuff Christians Like :: Answers to the John Mayer Quiz<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmayer.com\/\">John Mayer<\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=HXWXQeHCWpo\">YouTube :: Waiting on the World to Change<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christomlin.com\/\">Chris Tomlin<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Message_(Bible)\">Wikipedia :: The Message Bible<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/faith\/christian-is-a-poor-adjective\/\">SSL :: Christian is a poor adjective<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=malesurvival&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=B002VLNB1Q\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>&nbsp;<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=malesurvival&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=B001BKM3MQ\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>&nbsp;<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=malesurvival&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=1600060021\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prodigal John has a fun post over on his blog, Stuff Christians Like about Christians smuggling John Mayer into our camp. I think the original title of the post compared Mayer to Christian artist Chris Tomlin. I think in some ways, John Mayer has snuck inside the Christian circle like a ninja. Or maybe we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/did-john-mayer-right-the-message-or-was-it-the-other-way-around\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Did John Mayer write the Message or was it the other way around?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,21,13],"tags":[1305,4650,1304,1303,1007,1302,689],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-humor","category-music","tag-chris-tomlin","tag-faith","tag-john-mayer","tag-prodigal-john","tag-quiz","tag-stuff-christians-like","tag-the-message"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-10G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11136,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions\/11136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}