{"id":3915,"date":"2024-08-15T07:07:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T11:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/js1cd06kre.onrocket.site\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2024-08-15T07:07:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T11:07:57","slug":"from-intimacy-to-outimacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/15\/from-intimacy-to-outimacy\/","title":{"rendered":"From Intimacy to Outimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, <\/em>click here<\/a>

Eat and Get Out.<\/em>

That\u2019s the slogan at Ed Debevic\u2019s, which since 1984 has been one of Chicago\u2019s iconic restaurants.

Ed\u2019s is a not a subtle dining experience.

The cuisine appears to have been tele-transported from the 1950s \u2013 huge burgers, hand-dipped shakes, jumbo hot dogs, and cheese fries. 

The servers are loud, abrasive, and snarky. They wear ludicrous costumes and adopt various high school personas \u2013 from jocks to nerds to wisecrackers. \u201cWhaddya want?\u201d <\/em>they might ask when taking your order. 

As Ed\u2019s own website points out, \u201cDon\u2019t expect this diner to be a \u2018please\u2019 and \u2018thank you\u2019 kind of place.\u201d

Every table gets a complimentary basket of homemade chips. Once I made the mistake of asking my server if we could have a refill. \u201cYou got those for free!<\/em>\u201d he shouted, making sure the whole restaurant could hear. \u201cYou think I\u2019m really going to give you more<\/em>?\u201d We never got our refill. But the drama was definitely fun.

Ed\u2019s usually has a long line of customers waiting for a seat. Occasionally a staff member will get on the P.A. system and say something like, \u201cHope you\u2019re having a great time, everyone. Now, if you\u2019re finished, get out.<\/em> We\u2019re trying to make some money here!\u201d 

Best of all, from time to time the servers drop their trays and jump up on the counter, dancing to raucous songs like The Village People\u2019s classic YMCA.<\/em>

No wonder people drive hundreds of miles just to be insulted and to gorge themselves on items that are not associated with a standard cardiologist\u2019s recommended diet.

Faithful fans groaned when Ed Debevic\u2019s closed its doors at its original North Shore site in 2015. Sanity (and Ed\u2019s) was finally restored when they launched a new Chicago location six years later.

When you think about it, Eat and Get Out <\/em>would be a great slogan for followers of Jesus, too.

Jesus calls his followers to share a common table \u2013 literally and figuratively.   

We should sit down together. And encourage each other. We should listen well, wrestle with hard questions, and deal compassionately with each other\u2019s weaknesses.

Ed\u2019s offers fullness of a particular kind. So does Jesus: \u201cThese things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full\u201d (John 15:11).

But after we feast on spiritual fellowship, it\u2019s time to get out. Intimacy should be followed, as author John Ortberg suggests, by \u201coutimacy.\u201d

We should get out into the world. Out into the battle. Out into the muddle and chaos of a culture where politics, entertainment, social issues, and religion seem to divide people more often than unite them. 

It\u2019s wonderful to have a place at the table.

But after we eat together, filling ourselves with the fullness and joy of the grace of God, there\u2019s one last thing we need to say to each other:

Out you go!  <\/em>

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Eat and Get Out. That\u2019s the slogan at Ed Debevic\u2019s, which since 1984 has been one of Chicago\u2019s iconic restaurants. Ed\u2019s is a not a subtle dining experience. The cuisine appears to have been tele-transported from the 1950s \u2013 huge burgers, hand-dipped shakes, jumbo hot dogs, and cheese fries.  The servers… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions\/3918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}