Sanctus Real

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A couple weeks ago, we stayed at a strange little hotel by an otherwise normal airport. This menu was sitting on the nightstand in the room next to a similar menu for pillows (You know…Firm, Soft, Side-Sleeper, Throw, Orthopedic, Body…standard pillow menu items).

Initially I was caught off guard. I felt my shoulder muscles tense with indignation. “How dare they print such a menu in my hotel room, let alone laminate it! What kind of crazy place are we staying in”? Then I remembered exactly the kind of crazy place we were staying in…Earth.

As Sanctus Real, we get to travel all over the place, but our audience is still by-and-large the Church. We’re still in the bubble (can you help me think of a better term? I’m tired of people saying “bubble” all the time). In that regard, it’s easy to forget that there is a big ol’ world out there looking for answers in things other than Jesus. It’s easy to forget that according to scripture, we’re just visitors in a foreign land. The spiritual menu was a good reminder that the world isn’t Christian.

Anyway. Next I opened the drawer of the nightstand and saw the same two books I see in every hotel room we’ve ever stayed in. The first was Gideon’s Bible. There I had it. Even with the spiritual menu, the Gospel was still more physically present in the room than any other, and that was a good thing. Besides, I searched everywhere on the phone…there was no “You Want It, You Got It” button. No one was ordering anything except takeout from one of the 1000+ places listed in the other book in the nightstand drawer, the Yellow Pages.

- dan

So what do you think about the spiritual menu? What do you think your initial reaction would’ve been?