Week 2 Day 2 : GUIDE

Hey hey hey,

 

So for tonight’s e-mail I googled the word guide. (By the way, as I write this, googled is underlined in squiggly red meaning that it’s misspelled. Don’t you think that by now googledshould be a legitimate word? Also by the way, squiggly seems to be a real word. Huh.) And the overwhelming response was about TV guide. For those of you who don’t know, TV guide was a magazine (is still) that tells you what’s on, when it’s on, and on what channel it’s on. You youngsters probably don’t read it these days, but back in my day… it was great kindling for the fireplace. Yeah, we didn’t read it either, but had it anyway. I just did the click and check method. My record was clicking past 64 channels in 4.3 seconds. Did I know what was on each of those channels?  Yes. You see, guys don’t want to know what’s on TV. They want to know what else is on TV. (Seinfeld joke.) In any case, the TV guide gave you all the information you needed on anything having to do with a week’s worth of TV.  I decided to search for TV Guide covers and show you some of my favs.

 A couple of notes. First, I’m sorry about all the pictures. That’s a lot of space. But, I was having so much fun looking at old TV shows I actually deleted some to save your mailboxes. Now how often do you get a picture of Pee Wee Herman in a Christian e-mail? His show was definitely not children’s humor. I’m actually in a TV guide. Did you see me? No, I’m not number 15. I’m the guy in the upper right of the 11^th cover. Alyssa is in this one too. Did you see her? She is on the 14^th cover, stopping bullets with her wristbands. (She’s so awesome.)

 

Think about this: TV guide has been around nationally since the middle of the 50s. Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU) has been around since 1951. When your friends want to know what’s on TV, they go to the TV guide. When your friends want to know more about God and spirituality, do they come to you? Don’t you think they should? Well, TV Guides can’t get up and talk to their owners. (At least not without some Jedi mind trick.) But we can go to those who need for us to GUIDE them through the Gospel. Challenge yourself to share the truth of Christ with one person today. It’ll be awesome.

 

-A fellow guide.

 

p.s. If this e-mail isn’t enough for you and you want more even after this month is over, e-mail me back with the correct names of the TV shows shown here and we can be pen pals. But without the pen and with e-mails instead.