I know it has been a while since I journaled, and that I can only say is due to business. (Isn't that everybody else's excuse!) Saying all that, I want to step into a very deep and controversial topic. However, in this context I am not going to come out blatantly and expose one side or the other. Rather, I am going to try and present the issue as an issue and a topic, not a fight for anything else. I saw the movie "The adjustment bureau" tonight, and I was shocked at what I saw. Not because anything hollywood does ever should surprise us at this point, but because it was a message to the world. Earlier, as I was about to go into the theatre, I had conversation on the phone with a relative. She went on and on about how "the adjustment bureau," was just another movie like "eagle eye" that was trying to say that the government or unknown agency in the government was to blame. She ended her point saying that "It was time for people write something original and instead of doing the same things over and over again..."(Paraphrase). However, what I saw in the theatre was nothing like eagle eye, or anything else like that genre. In fact, it was something so different that I walked out asking God what my response needed to be. Let me put this way, in the past there was a yelling voice coming out of hollywood, "there is NO God!" But! This was no longer the cry of hollywood in this instance. No, there mission was simple. There is a God, and he's trying to ruin your hopes and dreams, and if you keep rebelling long enough and divert His plan long enough than he finally rewrite it. Not only that, but your actually smarter than God is, and God trying to make you pretend that your not as smart as He is....does this sound familiar at all? Hint: Garden...Snake....Fruit! In essence, since that's the name of this whole thing, the writers not only exposed "God" for what he was, but said that Man was a better God in his own life than God was, and those who realized that were able to truly experience "free will," but those who don't, don't.
My question is, "What is our response?..." Hollywood has spoken, that "New Age" is their stance. There might be a God, but he's not in charge of my life. I am my own God, he is inadequate! Church you are not allowed to keep silent, shake your heads, preach against it behind the pulpit either, your response must be different. For years, we have settled for hiding in our churches demanding our rights to exist, and crying about the problems outside our walls, and asking God to change them..... I remember my grandmother telling the story about when television first came out. The station began offering stations to a host of christians and churches, but the church stuck up their noses and said the TV was the "devil!" Of course, you can see what took place afterwards. It wasn't long before they had handed all the stations over to secular organizations.... Now a days you hear Christians and Pastors do nothing, but complain about what's on the TV. Well, duh! You wanted nothing to do with the TV, it was the devil. No! what the church realized too late was that they had ignored the hand of God in the beginnings of media!
There must be a response that creates global ripples just like the ones issuing out of hollywood, every minute of everyday. Let me start with this. Church, media is THE most powerful tool in the natural word to convey a influence. These wimpy, pathetic attempts at "christian media," (no offense to anyone) have been an EPIC FAIL! There is a lack of excellence poisoning the body of Christ. That "okay," christian media is okay! Hear me when I say this! It will NEVER be okay to produce anything not equal to or greater than the world. So return to your wood shops churches. No money isn't an excuse! There is tons of money in your businesses, and in your world. Go get it!
Church our response is fight fire with fire! We must respond with media and movies, with powerful truths "hidden" with the excellence. And I don't mean "fake christian families on film in unrealistic and relatable avenues. That my friends just makes everyone "roll their eyes" and turn the channel, or watch something else.
Lack of excellence is NOT an Option! So take it out of your thinking. The church was never designed to house us, but to export us out into the world....
