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Notes: 1 / 1 year ago
Radio play Christianity or How to not unload on your local grocer
I probably couldn’t count the number of times that I have had a conversation that goes something this:
Person: I don’t like <insert name of band or artist here>.
Me: Oh really, why not?
Person: Ugh… that song of their’s get way too overplayed on the radio.
While I usually don’t try and discuss the merits of the particular band with the person that that point, it is an interesting notion none-the-less. Here a person has condensed an entire band’s work down to a single song, and then determined that they disapprove of the band based on the single song.
While the idea seems rather illogical when discussing music, I wonder how much we do that type of thing with other areas of life.
Namely, I’m curious just how many people have been turned off to God based on my overplayed radio tune of a life.
The other day, in some group setting, Amanda raised the question, “What would a non-hypocritical Christian look like?” It’s something that I have been mulling over in my head a lot recently.
The only answer I can begin to give is that a non-hypocritical Christian would own up to their junk. They would be open and honest with people about how they are a flawed, fallen human. And I think it would take more than just recognizing the “forest” of junk in their life. I think it would require talking about the trees.
The conundrum is in discovering who to have what levels of honesty with. For example, when you go through the check out line in the grocer, and the lady asks how things are going…. do you actually tell her how your day is? Probably not.
But my guess is that when one of your friends takes you out for pizza and says that you’ve been on his mind recently and wants to know if everything is okay, that is probably the time to talk about how frustrated you’ve been recently. Or how you feel like a completely failure as a husband or as a graduate or as a member of society.
I think if we were that honest with people, it wouldn’t surprise them when we end up acting in ways that are completely contrary to Christ. And if people weren’t surprised by Christians that didn’t always act like Christ, then maybe we could move past radio play Christianity into the diverse creative spectrum that God has to offer.
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