My family and I went outlet shopping today (I know, try to control your wild excitement.) Amidst all of the companies that needed to sell off their excess inventory I came across a store called, “Bible Factory Outlet.” Who would have thought that there are spare Bibles laying around waiting to be sold at low, low prices! When I got inside I found out that this place didn’t just sell Bibles, but everything that you could possibly need to live the Christian lifestyle.
At this store I could buy the Christian equivalent to Harry Potter, several T-shirts designed to look like popular logos but with a clever twist which delivers a Christian message, and one of those ever-so-cool bags that you can put your Bible in so that you don’t have to be bothered actually carrying it from place to place. You know, it seems like all I need to do is find some more money and I will be able to buy everything that I need to be Christian.
Ok, enough playing around. Why is it that we need to have a Christian version of everything that becomes popular in secular society? Why do we constantly try to reduce God to some trite bumper sticker slogan? It seems to me that these things trivialize the message that we are to share with the world. I mean, which is more important, letting people know that in case of the rapture your car will be unmanned, or that Jesus paid the ultimate price for thier sins? Could we please exchange this fluffy, hackneyed, nonsense for the power, majesty, and mystery that has surrounded God for centuries.
Please, do not let your faith become a fad. Our God has real power and earnestly desires that you draw closer.
2 Chronicles 16:9 - For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.
2 comments:
so true dave. your comparison of the rapture bumper sticker and the whole Gospel message made me think about how fad christianity really tends to point to the christian proudly rather than necessarily pointing completely and humbly to Jesus. hmm.
I ind it strangely odd that, in light of what you say here about trivializing God through popular secular culture, you earlier in "Why do you have to hate on my music, yo?" mentioned that God can come to people in whatever way He so desires, even if that's through popular secular culture.
>Why is it that we need to have a Christian version of everything that becomes popular in secular society?
I think that's a very good point, and I encourage you to entertain that thought when approaching music as well.
pjh
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