.:RelevANT
First, yes, this is something of a rant.
Second, yes, this will probably be long.
That's your warning, so, skip this at your leisure.
Otherwise, please comment and share your thoughts.
.:Timeless
I believe Truth is timeless.
I believe Truth is always relevant.
But, I am hard-pressed to believe that
the methods of presenting Truth stay relevant.
Remember yearbooks?
Have you ever looked at a yearbook from the 80s,
or the 70s, and not at least chuckled a little at the culture and style of the time?
Why do we wonder that the way Christ is presented
doesn't seem to connect with the next generation
the same way it did with the last one?
Why does the name of Jesus, when said
with a southern drawl, bring up an incredible
amount of baggage?
When you hear Christ's name said like that
does your mind immediately flash to Jesus
or a stereotype of someone slamming their Bible?
It seems to me like Christendom is filled with a lot of people
afraid to understand the hurting world because they won't leave
their holy huddles.
All Truth is God's Truth, and if we find some Truth outside of
the well-defined walls of Christianity, we shouldn't freak out.
Just because something doesn't agree with Christianity, doesn't
mean it is completely corrupt and has no shred of Truth to it.
If there wasn't Truth involved in something, I don't believe many
people would cling to it... even if it was a distorted version of Truth.
This isn't to say we should go dumpster diving for scraps of Truth,
but more to say that we shouldn't flip out when something seems to click
with an idea expressed in another religion or in science.
.:Souce Material
I somehow found my way onto GodTube (like YouTube),
and was appalled at the comments people slung back and forth
in the comments section of some of the videos.
People are very passionate when it comes to spirituality.
Unfortunately, people are not always educated on what they
so very passionately rip to shreds.
It makes us look uneducated and xenophobic of the world.
I worry that some people are loved with 40-foot poles.
I'm tired of people that look down on other people because
those they look upon don't have it all together and seem lost.
.:Creativity
I'm worried that Christian culture is reactionary and unimaginative,
that it has to either spoof mainstream or react to it
by either bashing or creating something new in a reaction
and not being creative in its own right.
Or even further, why does creativity have to be labeled as
Christian or Secular? Why can't the work have its own merit
and be judged based on itself, instead of what labels are applied to it
for the sake of 'safety'?
I just hope I'm not alone in this.
I'm sure I'm not,
But it'd be nice to hear from someone else with the same thoughts.
vcD,
-R
Second, yes, this will probably be long.
That's your warning, so, skip this at your leisure.
Otherwise, please comment and share your thoughts.
.:Timeless
I believe Truth is timeless.
I believe Truth is always relevant.
But, I am hard-pressed to believe that
the methods of presenting Truth stay relevant.
Remember yearbooks?
Have you ever looked at a yearbook from the 80s,
or the 70s, and not at least chuckled a little at the culture and style of the time?
Why do we wonder that the way Christ is presented
doesn't seem to connect with the next generation
the same way it did with the last one?
Why does the name of Jesus, when said
with a southern drawl, bring up an incredible
amount of baggage?
When you hear Christ's name said like that
does your mind immediately flash to Jesus
or a stereotype of someone slamming their Bible?
It seems to me like Christendom is filled with a lot of people
afraid to understand the hurting world because they won't leave
their holy huddles.
All Truth is God's Truth, and if we find some Truth outside of
the well-defined walls of Christianity, we shouldn't freak out.
Just because something doesn't agree with Christianity, doesn't
mean it is completely corrupt and has no shred of Truth to it.
If there wasn't Truth involved in something, I don't believe many
people would cling to it... even if it was a distorted version of Truth.
This isn't to say we should go dumpster diving for scraps of Truth,
but more to say that we shouldn't flip out when something seems to click
with an idea expressed in another religion or in science.
.:Souce Material
I somehow found my way onto GodTube (like YouTube),
and was appalled at the comments people slung back and forth
in the comments section of some of the videos.
People are very passionate when it comes to spirituality.
Unfortunately, people are not always educated on what they
so very passionately rip to shreds.
It makes us look uneducated and xenophobic of the world.
I worry that some people are loved with 40-foot poles.
I'm tired of people that look down on other people because
those they look upon don't have it all together and seem lost.
.:Creativity
I'm worried that Christian culture is reactionary and unimaginative,
that it has to either spoof mainstream or react to it
by either bashing or creating something new in a reaction
and not being creative in its own right.
Or even further, why does creativity have to be labeled as
Christian or Secular? Why can't the work have its own merit
and be judged based on itself, instead of what labels are applied to it
for the sake of 'safety'?
I just hope I'm not alone in this.
I'm sure I'm not,
But it'd be nice to hear from someone else with the same thoughts.
vcD,
-R