• Fake fire in an outdoor fire pit, while we all stared mesmerized. I couldn’t help but notice the convenience of “clean smoke” and switch-on fire.
• Nice homes and nice cars. Everywhere.
• Wine galas at South Coast Plaza where proceeds benefit an Orange County food bank. How many of those in attendance even know where the food bank is?
• Church success measured by how many people attend and how many flat screen TV’s they have in the lobby.
• One church where they are talking about taking on a $10,000 per month mortgage after 3 years of existence. Another, 2 years old, where they can’t afford to pay their pastor and his family. This pastor spends his time feeding HIV patients in the community, while the other…?
• Suburbia = comfort. Is this what we really want?
• Kingdom of comfort, Kingdom of comfort, Kingdom of comfort. Just don’t speak critically of this to Christians engrossed in this. They might try to crucify you.
• A home remodeled to accommodate an outdoor 54-inch flat screen TV that drops down from above at the touch of a button so you can watch your baseball game while soaking in the hot tub.
• More fake fire.
• M0re. There is a mistaken zero instead of an o. This is actually a very interesting mistake…
• An article about how spending money on ourselves doesn’t result in happiness.
• The article gives compelling evidence that when we spend it on others, we find fulfillment.
• A sign that says, “Never apologize for being an American”.
• I take that to read, Don’t quit chasing the American Dream.
• What Dream?
• Why M0re?
• Who is my neighbor?
• Why comfort?
• That’s what I saw today…
What I Saw Today:
June 29, 2009 at 6:51 am (Uncategorized)
Sean said,
June 29, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Perfect.
Total past-tense stream of consciousness. To me, the kingdom of God turns modern convention on it’s head. Again, and again and again. The first shall be last, the Lord exhalts the humble, love your enemy. It kind of begs the question of whether or not we really believe that, if we’re participating — nay PIONEERING – indulgence in so many of these areas.
Does a church who measures their success by attendance records and flat-screens really believe that we are “not of this world?”
The intentional use of “Crucify” is haunting. Isn’t that exactly what happened? After all, it wasn’t the “Bad guys” who killed Jesus, it was the religious. Jesus is uncomfortable.