Popping the bubble
There was a song in the late 1990's by the late Christian band, Silage, called Billboards and it dealt with a problem within the Christian community. What problem is that? Let me give you a lyrical sampling: life in the bubble, there ain't no trouble, we like to judge our books by just staring at the cover, if one of us should stumble, we'll hide in undercover, 'cause you can't have trouble when you're living in the bubble.
The chorus then goes on to talk about "the bubble" and why we do not want trouble in our little Christian bubble.
This is a huge problem because it is so easy to hide inside the Christian bubble. We become frightened by "the world" and are afraid of their influence on our lives and, in effect, we say that Christianity cannot influence our culture; Christianity is weaker than our culture.
That does not match up with the notion we get from the Bible. Throughout Scripture, we can get a taste of what Christianity does as it spreads throughout culture. Christianity engages Greek thought in Athens, as Paul uses the language of the Greek philosophers to show them Christianity is true; and there are other areas as well from Peter addressing a Jewish crowd at Pentecost in Jewish terms to show the truth of Christianity, and so on and so on.
This did not happen because Peter or Paul wore a parody T-shirt with a Jesus message, while driving a car with an ICTHUS fish sticker, they bought at the Christian store, while listening to a Christian band, while on their way to the repairshop they found in the Christian phonebook.
It doesn't work that way.
We must go out and engage our culture with Truth.
Book of the day, Chameleon Christianity by Dick Keyes.
The chorus then goes on to talk about "the bubble" and why we do not want trouble in our little Christian bubble.
This is a huge problem because it is so easy to hide inside the Christian bubble. We become frightened by "the world" and are afraid of their influence on our lives and, in effect, we say that Christianity cannot influence our culture; Christianity is weaker than our culture.
That does not match up with the notion we get from the Bible. Throughout Scripture, we can get a taste of what Christianity does as it spreads throughout culture. Christianity engages Greek thought in Athens, as Paul uses the language of the Greek philosophers to show them Christianity is true; and there are other areas as well from Peter addressing a Jewish crowd at Pentecost in Jewish terms to show the truth of Christianity, and so on and so on.
This did not happen because Peter or Paul wore a parody T-shirt with a Jesus message, while driving a car with an ICTHUS fish sticker, they bought at the Christian store, while listening to a Christian band, while on their way to the repairshop they found in the Christian phonebook.
It doesn't work that way.
We must go out and engage our culture with Truth.
Book of the day, Chameleon Christianity by Dick Keyes.
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