Aisle Walker--The Controversy of Centuries

Hey, Soul Sisters!

(can we all say, creeperish?)

Project 9 was over an article about "Walking the Aisle". I'd never heard of an altar call before, except when a missionary or a pastor guest at chapel spoke about first coming to Christ--they usually mention feeling led to walk down the aisle. That is to say, I'd heard references to it before, but had never really known about it until now. 

Now that I think about it, the practice seems a bit narcissistic and prideful. I mean, I understand the whole bit about an outward sign of our convictions, but this has the same potential to be royally turned on its butt like baptism sort of has--being baptized in our church has sort of become a badge of honor that people must have before they are truly a follower of Christ. That doesn't necessarily mean that baptism is bad, just that sometimes our motives are messed up--to be part of the "in" crowd of Christians is a terrible motive for baptism.

Same thing with aisle calls--it's a good idea. We need to learn to show our faith, a trait that many people in the American church seem to be reluctant to do. Like Jesus said, a good tree will bear good fruit, and vise verse. If we're truly God's children, there should be nothing stopping every person in the room from getting up and confessing their sins. But we also have to be careful--motives are sometimes more important than the action. Let's not be Pharisees, shall we?

"I don't wanna be a Pharisee...I don't wanna be a Pharisee...cuz they're not fair, ya see...I don't wanna be a Pharisee..."

May we all be happy sheep,

--JesusFreak 

Grilled Cheesus: The Big Question

Howdy, folks!

Today's blog is about the Glee episode titled "Grilled Cheesus". I'll give you a moment to finish laughing.

......done?

Okay, let's continue.

Mr. M gave me some questions to answer about Glee. Let's see what he gave us--

--What do they think of my faith?
1. From what I can tell, the writers of Glee must have the opinion that Christianity is a guessing game--no one really knows what they're doing, they're just picking something that works.
2. Christians are divided amongst themselves, and are so different denominationally that they're not even sure if they've got it right.
3. Christ is something like a grilled cheese sandwich (if you couldn't get that from the title, I don't know what to say to you)--He's just a solution to your temporary problems, like a drug. Or a sandwich. I want a sandwich.

--Are they portraying it as accurate or innacurate? What parts are innacurate or accurate?
1. Way'ell, obviously (yes, yes, I made a viral video joke. Have a Double Rainbow Day to you as well) the guessing game bit is a little out of touch. If you believe in the three basic truths of Christianity (A. God is omnipotent and therefore created it all, B. Man is inherently sinful in nature, and C. God, who is absolutely holy in nature, sent His Son the Christ down to earth to teach us and die a torturous death, thereby bridging the existential gap between man and God.), then you've got it right. The stuff about baptism, confession, predestination...that's just outer fluff. Denominational breeding grounds, if you will. And not like Falls Creek.

2. Divided amongst themselves...sadly, yes, that is kind of true. I mean, you've almost got different "cliques" of people in the bigger church settings: you've got the sandy-haired, surfer dudes that are always volunteering for community service and are just really in tune with God and people, and on the other end of the spectrum you've got the straight-laced, no-nonsense people who were read from Leviticus for bedtime stories as a child. There's definitely lots of division amongst Christians.

3. Christ is just a temporary solution, like everything else in the world--totally false in the every regard. Obviously. Totally. Christ is a sacred, holy remedy to your spiritual needs. NOT just physical needs! Another thing that I think Glee was trying to portray was that Jesus is a magic genie that you talk to when your life kind of sucks, and that's it. This, of course, is wrong. Jesus is your friend (hahaha, three viral video jokes in one post. Is this real life?), and friends are born for adversity, yes, but the most disgusting type of friend in the world is one who leaves you when times are good. Jesus, of course, doesn't do this. We, however, have a nasty tendency towards it. When life gets good, we tend to forget about God, and then when things get bad again, we get mad at God for not doing His job. We need to work on that, collectively.

Okay, so I was thinking about converting my blog into video format. This, unfortunately, requires a camera, which I am debating about buying. Let me know if in the comments if you think this is a good idea or a bad idea. I'm also thinking about putting videos on Youtube that talk about similar stuff as what we're doing in Bible. Once again, just let me know in the comments.

Suillad, mellonamins!

--JesusFreak