Wrecked and Abandoned

While in college, I was in a hip, cool, froody band called Reckless Abandon. That's right...Reckless Abandon. We were a Christian rock band, desperately hanging onto the end of the glam rock days, still sporting our mullets and convincing ourselves that our mullets, and ourselves were cool.

As I mentioned, we played Christian music (actually, I said we were a Christian rock band, but that is what that usually means to most people), so not only did we have a name that to us signified something spiritual and meaningful (that's another post), but we ALSO had a band Bible verse. Kind of our signature scripture if you will.

It was Matthew chapter 16, verse 24:

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."

It's a good verse. I like it. We all did. So much so, that our band logo consisted of our name (Reckless Abandon), with a little "Matthew 16:24" underneath it.

We actually played the area around our college quite a bit, and ended up getting some t-shirts made. Of course, being in college, and musicians, we had no money. So we got some guy who owed a favor to somebody's uncle's cousin's sister-in-law and just happened to have a t-shirt business on the side to print them for us.

And he did. And we were pumped! White lettering on black t-shirts. They were cool. There was our name "Reckless Abandon"...and there was our band verse: Matthew 16:20. Awesome!

Then someone noticed something... Wait a minute...it says Matthew 16:20! It was supposed to be Matthew 16:24! What's Matthew 16:20 say?

Then he warned his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.

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True story.

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