Celebrity Christians
Is a celebrity Christian a good thing? By celebrity Chrisitan I mean someone who is more than influencial in just what they say, but they are imitated in more ways than just their Christian walk, and they are celebrated for more than just being a Christian.
I'm talking about a Christian who has a following, like say an artist, theologian, writer, speaker or pastor.
It's like this, I enjoy the band Third Day and I discinctly remember when they started to become popular among our Christian subculture, and the lead singer in the band, Mac Powell, happened to have bleached blonde hair. Soon, Christian kids who liked 3D started attending concerts with bleached hair to imitate him.
Or another example would be this, we begin to listen to a preacher, maybe David Jeremiah, or R.C. Sproul on the radio, and we learn and benefit from them very much, but we become so attracted to something about them that we obsess over them and clamour to own all their books, CDs, DVDs, go hear them speak and so on and so on.
I chose the examples I chose because they are all people whom I enjoy, appreciate, like and have no axe to grind with so my ideas would not seem venomous or polemic.
I think though, that too often we start to appreciate someone's service for God and to us so much, and take our appreciation beyond their use of the gifts God gave them. We take it to the point where we are more interested in them than God's use of them. I think that we need to temper ourselves to a point where we follow St. Paul's admonition and be followers of someone as "they are followers of Christ", remembering that everyone within the body of Christ has something to offer. We all have unique gifts which can contribute and are able to be used to touch lives that no one else will be used to touch.
It's not about us, it's not about our celebrities, it's about Christ.
Book of the day, The Christ of the Covenants by O. Palmer Robertson.
I'm talking about a Christian who has a following, like say an artist, theologian, writer, speaker or pastor.
It's like this, I enjoy the band Third Day and I discinctly remember when they started to become popular among our Christian subculture, and the lead singer in the band, Mac Powell, happened to have bleached blonde hair. Soon, Christian kids who liked 3D started attending concerts with bleached hair to imitate him.
Or another example would be this, we begin to listen to a preacher, maybe David Jeremiah, or R.C. Sproul on the radio, and we learn and benefit from them very much, but we become so attracted to something about them that we obsess over them and clamour to own all their books, CDs, DVDs, go hear them speak and so on and so on.
I chose the examples I chose because they are all people whom I enjoy, appreciate, like and have no axe to grind with so my ideas would not seem venomous or polemic.
I think though, that too often we start to appreciate someone's service for God and to us so much, and take our appreciation beyond their use of the gifts God gave them. We take it to the point where we are more interested in them than God's use of them. I think that we need to temper ourselves to a point where we follow St. Paul's admonition and be followers of someone as "they are followers of Christ", remembering that everyone within the body of Christ has something to offer. We all have unique gifts which can contribute and are able to be used to touch lives that no one else will be used to touch.
It's not about us, it's not about our celebrities, it's about Christ.
Book of the day, The Christ of the Covenants by O. Palmer Robertson.
posted by Bobby's blog at 3:51 PM
3 Comments:
Good point! I like Third Day a lot, but we need to make sure we don't favor or look down on anyone especially because of an ability they have.
Ran across your blog and thought you might like to see just how human Mac Powell is...
In Christ
I'm not so sure I know what you mean by that.
Believe me, I was not attempting to bash anyone, but rather convey my thoughts on keeping our focus on Christ, rather than people.
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