It’s too early in the morning to post a picture of Beyonce. Here are some nice wild violets instead.
Well, what else can you expect from San Francisco?
Of course they’re going to have a church which offers anything but holiness–and treats the unholy as if it were holy.
Yeah, let’s link church to pop culture! It’s bound to turn out great!
[For much more on this subject, see the Blog Archives for my series on “Paganism in the Church.”]
It is so sad to see what is happening to churches. I have friends who have left their long time churches because they have become mere social clubs. I am still sending my studies to various friends who then call me to discuss what I had written for them and we discuss the
lessons. It is downright scary to see what so many churches have become.
How about an Elvis mass? Maybe a Charles Manson mass? He had his own personal social philosophies and wrote some songs; shouldn’t that be celebrated?
OJ just died and most of us believe that he got away with murder, but he was a real good football player and many people know more about football players than they do about Jesus, so maybe an OJ Simpson mass, and they could use orange juice instead of sacramental wine. Sure, Jesus told us to use bread and wine, but there was no Monday Night Football in Jesus’ day, so they couldn’t have known about OJ. We should fix that. 🙂
If you were to spread the contents of those first two paragraphs on your lawn, the grass will prosper, which is exactly my opinion about religious observation involving celebrity names. As Christians, we are commanded to take the bread and the wine, in communion with Christ.
As worshippers of the One True God, no human, no matter how talented, or wise, should be honored above any other worshipper. We are there to honor our Maker, and to show to all our communion with Christ. If a major celebrity was to attend, they are on par with the lowliest attendee, when it comes to worship. Even so much as to attach the name of some prominent person to a meeting for worship, strikes me as quite wring minded.
Make the “wrong minded”, not “wring minded”.
I like “wring minded” better.
High philosophy by auto-correct. 🙂
Celebrity worship: sometimes I wonder what God sees in us.
The whole concept of celebrity has a tinge of idolatry. If you were to go back 200 years, the average person didn’t know what the President of the US looked like; he could walk down the street without being recognized. Now, with all the various forms of media, even an entry level newscaster in a small market is recognizable in public and the concept of celebrity has so expanded that people are honored according to being able to be recognized because of their media exposure.
But, just because someone is seen on TV, does not make them important. It doesn’t make their opinions any more valuable, either. But I think that our fallen state leads people to seek idols, and this is very dangerous. Our trust shouldn’t be in some other fallen human; even the best of us are still quite flawed, and quite limited.
Some more than others.
Indeed. We’re all fallen, but some people embrace the fallen state.