Christians are portrayed horribly in Media. Almost all shows that we watch you hardly ever see people going to church, praying, and/or talking about God; there is a lot of using God's name in vein and people talking about the Bible,but that does not mean that they are Christians. Almost everyone knows what the Bible is but some follow it, some believe it, and others want nothing to do with it.
I was watching the show "House" (it is about very smart Doctors that can basically find what is wrong with clients and cure them) and this nun had came in because her hands were allergic to something and then she start seizing after getting a shot. Afterwards she was talking to one of the doctors about God and the Doctor sad that before becoming a doctor he went to seminary but then dropped out. He then told the nun his favorite passage and she told him hers. Later she had almost started to stop believing and thought that it was her time to go, then the doctor started praying for her. This doctor never followed up with his faith later on in the show, never talked to anyone about himself and his believes. The woman Doctor on the other hand had lost her husband 6 months into the marriage and doesn't believe because of how soon her husband died.
Some movies I think do portray good Christians like "Passion", "Walk to Remember", and the "Nativity". Of course two out of those 3 movies are based on Jesus' live. In the news, it seems that the only time that the church, Christians, or God/Jesus are mentioned is because of a bombing, building project, or a miracle. Christians are portrayed very poorly in the Media. People mock us in almost every show. It is not ok to sleep with multiple people, even though everyshow practically shows that! In the news, WCCO talks about the Christian Prison mission loses state subsidy http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_040104438.html. I guess our good deeds and trying to help people that had a rough life is not good enough to keep prison mission running. That mission helped inmates for a life after jail. It helped and showed them how to live a good life and to change for the better. Several states were doing this, but just because Texas wasn't paying in and a federal judge in Iowa halted the program because it was a separation of church and state, this Christian mission has to halt! I think that is crap, to fair at all. Christians were helping people, putting their time away from family and work to try and change people's lives; make violence start to diminish.
Not all Christians are perfect, in fact no one is perfect. Christians do cheat, beat, etc., but we also ask for forgiveness, we try to do the right thing, we try and live how Christ lived. But life is not easy there are obstacles in everyone's way no matter how easy/hard we think our lives are. Some music that we listen to on the radio is either against Christianity or against it. For example KROC 106.9 plays almost anything new even some new christian music as long as people like the beat, not so much the words. When listening to music we should be listening to the words to know what the artist is trying to portray through that song.
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ok, well I still can't post on here so I'm going to do it as a comment for now and hopefully I'll be able to change it later.
Denominational Battles
Well, when I was just a kid my family went to the Greenwood Community Church in Greenwood, Indiana. Once the church got rather incredibly large we went to it's sister church, Franklin Community Church in Franklin, Indiana. Around the age of 10 my family moved to Wisconsin and attended the Church of Christ in Janesville, Wisconsin where Jon Grice was Pastor(my father had been friends with him here at MBC). We were members of that church for many years. I guess you could say I grew up in that church. I was there 4-12 grade. However, during my Senior year in highschool I also started attending the Seventh Day Baptist Church in Milton, Wisconsin with a friend and became a member there my Freshman year of college. I still attend that church whenever I am home. My parents have now been going to Saunders Creek Community Church for the past few years and I attend there with them when I am home as well.
When I am asked what denomination I am, I reply...I am not a denomination, I'm a Christian. Honestly, I think all these different denominations are ridiculous! Every church I have attended, although there have been very minor differences in things such as communion or baptism practices, the core beliefs are the same. And I firmly believe that even within a denomination people will differ in their beliefs. We are called as Christians(followers of Christ), not as Church of Christ'ers' or Baptists or Protestants or Catholics or Lutherans and so on, but as one holistic group. We are called to be united and to reach the masses with love. Instead, with all these different denominations, we are competeing to see who's got the higher membership count or the better building or the more "cool" programs. It's ridiculous and it certainly is not accomplishing what we were commissioned to do.
I have learned from my classes here at Crossroads and in my life experiences that there needs to be some serious unification amongst Christians both within each denomination and amongst the denominations. Now, although I firmly believe this, at this point in time I am still working on developing ideas of how to accomplish this. I do know that there needs to be prayer, confession, and humility amongst all Christians for this to even begin taking place. It needs to be an individualistic thing just as much as a holistic thing. You can't change the group if there are unwilling participants. So I guess, at this point in time, prayer and working on yourself is the first step.
ok, well I got it published on the site now. yippee! :)
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