So EFFING original
You can count on christians to be last people to do anything. Christian bands try to sound like secular ones (usually after the style isn't popular anymore). Christian movies/church videos are only knock offs of the sinful originals. Today I was turned onto godtube.com; the christian answer to the popular youtube.com. Blah. Next thing we know there will be a christian myspace. WAIT!!!! I just checked: jcpeople.com. DAMN!!! I can't believe it.
The church isn't a trend setter even though they think they are (you know, out being the "hip" salt and light). Don't you think if God was just a bit alive in the church, trends would follow the church. Wouldn't it be something powerful outside the walls of the church? Wouldn't the world be affected by the church. Instead, the church follows the trends of the world to find acceptance, to feel cool and to not feel too different. WTFWJD?
I have an idea!!! I am going to open a christian bar!!! All the alcohol will be prayed over before it is served. Only christian karaoke ... I mean worship will be sung. I mean karaoke ... you will read the words on the screen and sing along. Yea.
Alright, So I spent some time tonight watching some of the videos on godtube.com and I found one that interested me. You could tell it was used as a sermon illustration. But I think I might of taken the illustration the wrong way. Watch it first, then let me explain.
Like I said before...only knock offs. So effing hip.
Here is the description of the video:
This cartoon depicts how our world can distort the way we view things.
And here is the description I came up with:
This cartoon depicts the life of Josh Sager as he grew up within the church. From as early as he can remember he wore these EFFING glasses that supposedly saved him from burning in hell with the devil. As a scared little boy he listened to his sunday school teachers attentively and followed their instructions religiously. As he grew older, Jesus became cooler. Worship had drums. And we played jesus games at our jesus camps with our jesus friends and made jesus commitments. Right out of high school Josh volunteered his time with junior highers. Writing prescriptions for glasses of their own. He eventually got payed to do that. Hell, he wrote prescriptions he couldn't even fill. Then his glasses started giving him a headache. He would take them off behind closed doors to relieve the pain. He tried EVERYTHING to hide the pain ... even contact lens. Eventually the pain became too unbearable. Now he lives without the glasses and is able to see more clearly. Amen.
I could go on and on.
/rant over.
The church isn't a trend setter even though they think they are (you know, out being the "hip" salt and light). Don't you think if God was just a bit alive in the church, trends would follow the church. Wouldn't it be something powerful outside the walls of the church? Wouldn't the world be affected by the church. Instead, the church follows the trends of the world to find acceptance, to feel cool and to not feel too different. WTFWJD?
I have an idea!!! I am going to open a christian bar!!! All the alcohol will be prayed over before it is served. Only christian karaoke ... I mean worship will be sung. I mean karaoke ... you will read the words on the screen and sing along. Yea.
Alright, So I spent some time tonight watching some of the videos on godtube.com and I found one that interested me. You could tell it was used as a sermon illustration. But I think I might of taken the illustration the wrong way. Watch it first, then let me explain.
Like I said before...only knock offs. So effing hip.
Here is the description of the video:
This cartoon depicts how our world can distort the way we view things.
And here is the description I came up with:
This cartoon depicts the life of Josh Sager as he grew up within the church. From as early as he can remember he wore these EFFING glasses that supposedly saved him from burning in hell with the devil. As a scared little boy he listened to his sunday school teachers attentively and followed their instructions religiously. As he grew older, Jesus became cooler. Worship had drums. And we played jesus games at our jesus camps with our jesus friends and made jesus commitments. Right out of high school Josh volunteered his time with junior highers. Writing prescriptions for glasses of their own. He eventually got payed to do that. Hell, he wrote prescriptions he couldn't even fill. Then his glasses started giving him a headache. He would take them off behind closed doors to relieve the pain. He tried EVERYTHING to hide the pain ... even contact lens. Eventually the pain became too unbearable. Now he lives without the glasses and is able to see more clearly. Amen.
I could go on and on.
/rant over.
posted by Joshua Sager at
9:36 PM
5 Comments:
Un-effing-believable! I could barely get through it. And yes, I agree with your description. But Why is it that the church has to go to such lengths to explain stuff like that. Like we are all so stupid that we can't get a straighforward lesson, we have to have these cheesy interpretations to mull over. Like it is so deep! Deep for sure, like with BS!
What were the contact lens?
Now for something else: My problem with this type of thing is that it is not a part of an "upside down Kingdom". It is not counter cultural at all. It is not "in the world but not of the world" it is "of the world (or stolen from it)but not in the world ('cause they would never watch it)".
This is the same problem I have with much of the Church Growth movement... it's just a bunch of people hocking cheap knockoffs of "worldly music" and "sermon's" masquerading as entertainment in a quasi-Christian packaging.
Long live SKA
Actually, there is another Christianized version of MySpace out there. It's called His Holy Space. You can find it at: www.hisholyspace.com.
I hate contextualization. To me the irritation exists not in the fact that the church rips off pop culture, but that they feel the need to do so. If the source of contextualization, the gospel, is unchanging, have people really changed so much since the first words of the gospel were written that communication depends on a corny cartoon? Can people only connect with God in worship in the presesnce of a piece rock band? Does church have to be made into a social experience?
Either only stupid people are breeding, or we are severely insulting the intelligence of the American churchgoing/potential church going population by giving them everything they don't need but what we think they are desperate for.
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