Early in his ministry, critics came to Jesus saying, "The disciples of John fast often, but yours eat and drink." Jesus replied, "can the wedding guest fast when the bridegroom arrives?"

Do you find it interesting that one of the earliest charges against Jesus' people is that they had too much fun?

"Why don't your disciples go around fasting, wearing sad faces and mournful looks -- like the disciples of John the Baptist?  We can tell that John's disciples are religious -- they're miserable!"

Would the same be said of Jesus' followers today?

I have never gotten into trouble for being too serious. Humor is my downfall. People are more troubled that a preacher should be funny than that a preacher should be wrong.

"It's just not appropriate for church," they say on their way out the door.…