Through a Glass Darkly

Yesterday I wrote in reference to some negative aspects of the seeker-friendly church model. Don’t infer that to mean I’m anti-seeker-friendly church. I’m not.

For example, one important aspect typical of seeker-friendly churches that I appreciate is their recognition and rejection of a phony and usually hypocritical “cultural” Christianity pervasive in American society.

They often make a distinction between “Christians” and “Christ-followers.” That distinction inspired Community Christian Church of Chicago to produce a series of well done parody commercials based on the old Mac vs. PC commercials. Here are a couple episodes:

Not real deep stuff, but definitely entertaining while effectively presenting a message well worth communicating.

On the other hand, they might have tried a little too hard to be entertaining with the “Jesus Goes Shopping” episode from another series they produced. That message escapes me completely (other than perhaps what seems to be a final little side point at the “Casa Jesus.”) … Mind boggling, really…

…Hey, it just makes me love those brothers and sisters more. You gotta admire their efforts for our Lord and His kingdom. Praise God and may there be many more servants of our King, including more of those who see things differently than me. May we all learn from our missteps and mistakes as well as from the strengths of others until we all grow up into Him in all things.