![]() ![]() You don’t believe you’re about to be fired if your boss tells you he needs to see you for a Come to Vishnu Meeting, do you? In fact, you might just think it’s a good thing. Think about it: if you could meet anyone from history, wouldn’t someone known as the Son of God be near the top of most everyone’s list? How a get together with Jesus was chosen to convey an unsavory meeting is anyone’s guess, though we do find it interesting that other religions don’t have their own version.įor example, a Come to Vishnu Meeting just doesn’t seem to have the same negative ramifications as one with Jesus. You should provide a complete sentence with context as usual. You can also use the words literally as you seem to be trying to do in Q2. This sense of come to Jesus dates to at least 1983 and has been frequently used in political contexts. There is an idiom 'come to Jesus / come to Jesus moment' which refers to something like what happened to Saul on the road to Damascus - a sudden revelation/realization or change of heart. But through whatever mediation the word of God may come to man in the existential moment of his life, it is always recognized by man as a word directly. The saying is annoying on many levels but to us, it’s mostly annoying because a meeting with Jesus (even if you’re an atheist) sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it? A different and later sense of come to Jesus (also called a come to Jesus moment') means getting back to core values, coming clean and admitting failures. Many dreams of Jesus remain for a lifetime. It’s meant to convey the importance (and maybe the overdue nature) of a meeting where a supervisor is going to finally lay down the law or where a crisis is finally going to be addressed. The coming day will burn them up, says the Lord who rules over all. An epiphany in which one realizes the truth of a matter a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something. This hackneyed, overused phrase is meant to show that the speaker is not just serious or even really serious this time but, rather, he or she is really, really, really serious! So serious, in fact, that, “If Bob doesn’t step up his performance, we’re going to have a Come to Jesus Meeting!” ![]() Available right now on Amazon.) Come to Jesus Meetingĭespite the name of this meeting, there really is nothing Christian (or even religious) about it. (Come to Jesus Meeting is an annoying business term and is just one of the 212 Most Annoying Business Phrases Managers Effuse, Confuse, and Overuse detailed in the hilarious must-have guide for every workplace: The 30,000-Pound Gorilla in the Room. ![]()
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