{"id":3017,"date":"2012-01-17T10:42:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T15:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/church\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2014-07-21T10:14:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T14:14:21","slug":"cheers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/church\/cheers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Farm Insurance Company has recently been using the theme song from the 80\u2019s sit com <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cheers\">Cheers<\/a><\/em> to advertise its services on TV. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/quietube2.com\/v.php\/http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h-mi0r0LpXo&amp;feature=related\">Where Everybody Knows Your Name<\/a>\u201d is the title of the song. The claim implied by using the song seems very ambitious for an insurance company with its clients.<\/p>\n<p>The original purpose of the song was to capture the atmosphere of a quaint bar in Boston called <em>Cheers<\/em>. The small group of regular patrons formed an intimate community. The show portrayed the patrons seeing each other every day as they gathered around the bar after work to talk about life. For those who were alive in the 80\u2019s and remember the show, the loud cry of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/search?q=Norm%2c+Cheers&amp;view=detail&amp;mid=8E504B73DF06790010588E504B73DF0679001058&amp;first=0&amp;qpvt=Norm%2c+Cheers\">Norm<\/a>\u201d as \u201cNorman\u201d entered the bar assuming his position at the counter captures the essence of the song.<\/p>\n<h2>What Cheers Got Right<\/h2>\n<p>While the show\u2019s values did not cohere with a Christ-centered life, the show did capture the desire of human hearts to be an intimate part of a community in which people know your name. <!--more-->And, they were \u201cglad you came,\u201d as the second line of the chorus proclaims.<\/p>\n<p>God has created His people to be a part of a tight, intimate community that knows Him first through Christ and then enables us to know one another intimately. While ultimate \u201cfitting in\u201d will not be complete until we are home in heaven (as covered in a <a title=\"\u201cFitting In\u201d \u2013 A Sense of Belonging Greater Than the World Can Offer\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/church\/fitting-in-a-sense-of-belonging-greater-than-the-world-can-offer\/\">previous post<\/a>), certainly we must do better than a bar in Boston!<\/p>\n<h2>Knowing Their Names, and Being Glad They Came<\/h2>\n<p>With Faith\u2019s emphasis this year on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithlafayette.org\/initiatives\">Building Core Strength<\/a><\/em>, a redeemed community of Christ followers must do better than any bar. My pastoral exhortation to each of Faith\u2019s four worship services this year is to really work at getting to know one another so that we may minister Christ to one another.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing starts with obtaining an individual\u2019s name and being thankful for the opportunity to engage with another individual containing the life breath of God\u2019s Spirit. You can\u2019t do that if you are not at a worship service early enough to actually chat with somebody. So, come early and don\u2019t sit down until you know the names of the people around you. Maybe even start using the British phrase \u201cCheers\u201d to one another which we will all interpret to mean, \u201cI want to know you more, starting with your name, and I\u2019m glad you came.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Farm Insurance Company has recently been using the theme song from the 80\u2019s sit com Cheers to advertise its services on TV. \u201cWhere Everybody Knows Your Name\u201d is the title of the song. The claim implied by using the song seems very ambitious for an insurance company with its clients. 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