come to jesus moment

"I'm going to talk with ___ ____ and we're going to have a 'come to Jesus talk'", declared my boss yesterday at work while in a staff meeting. It's the second time in that last couple months that I've heard this phrase in the business setting. Says a lot if you ask me.

08 November 2006

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Adam,
A friend of mine who works at a startup has quoted his boss as saying those same words during staff meetings. Random house (the dictionary makers) suggest that it really became popular around 2000. It seems to have two meanings according to them:

"a meeting in which one faces an unpleasant truth'; and one using "moment" rather than "meeting": 'an epiphany in which one realizes the truth of a matter'."

I think my friend's boss was using it in the second context about their product. Seems like a very modern portrait of Jesus as the revealer of personal or previously hidden truth.

See http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20001218 for more info.

Ryan Lee Sharp said...

Ha. The first time I heard this was in a business-related story as well. Ha.

Nate Millheim said...

Ah, that brings up bad memories of a Senior Pastor I worked with who used to use the phrase in an arrogant way to mean that he was going to throw the hammer down on someone...he said it a few times at each weekly "staff meeting"

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