Plastic Fantastic, originally uploaded by offstandard.
I was eating at a special church event and they served our food with these really nice looking forks. They almost looked like metal, but when I lifted the forks from the table, the sudden realization that this was only plastic made my thought go from "woah, they are going all out!" into "ah... plastic fantastic." (yeah, I really think in these corny ways)
It reminded me how the Christians in the USA are a lot like this plastic fork. It looks very hefty and looks like they have strength, but it will be very easy to snap this in half. Christians these days care too much for how they are perceived by people and take care to make themselves look like good strong Christians. Yet reality is that there is no weight behind their facade and once people actually get to know these shallow Christians, it will be apparent how lacking they are to the real thing.
Although there are plenty of me that act this way as well. Maybe that's one reason I really want to get out of this "comfortable" culture that makes Christians so.... "blah"
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This reminds me of what a pastor said before:
The Gospel is "I am accepted through Christ, therefore I love and trust God. Because of this love and trust, I actually start enjoying and delighting in God's laws. When I struggle, I stay real, even raw, before God and with others. Genuinely authentic and humble."
Religion is "I try very very hard to serve and obey even though I don't have any joy or delight in it, hoping that God won't get me and that He will accept me. Also, when I do all this stuff I feel better about myself. But, if I happen to fail, I cover it all up and put up a nice plastic smiley face"
it's a big challenge for me as well...so easy to "conform to the world."
what's inside the orange?
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