Being on fire for God....literally.

Word fads. They come, they go, and I'm seeing a new one on the horizon: "literally". Yes it is coming, coming to invade your sentences and muddle them with misguided meanings that suggest being set ablaze by our heavenly father...who loves us dearly. I'm not kidding here, okay I'll just tell the story. I recently went on a mission trip that was lead by teenagers employed by the our mission organization, and they were cool, don't get me wrong, but their grammar was less than exemplary. Take this prayer for instance: "God just come down on us and just, just, set us on fire for you just, LITERALLY set us on fire for you God." So you can see why I gave some pause to this, So then I found myself shot blocking the prayer and saying: "you know what God, I'm all for being set on fire for you, in a strictly spiritual sense of course, but when it comes to a physical sense of you striking me with fire from heaven I'm not so on board on that one, so I would appreciate if you could hold off on that "literal" fire and just strike me with spiritual fire, please." So the next time your about to use the word literally, think about what your implying, and make sure it's not setting someone on fire.