Not sure, but the churches in my neighborhood seem to feel the need to try and out wit each other in the medium of church signs. This one has been up for a few weeks. I am guessing it means that Jesus is some kind of chemical stimulant. Maybe it is an old church and it means that Jesus helps them with a defective body?.. Wonder if they will have a side effect disclaimer in a few weeks. Warning: following Jesus will make you give away all your possessions and family and follow him.
Maybe it is me, but I find myself troubled by the things that Google Image shows me about the faith that I claim. This is significant in my opinion because google will push those things that are referenced or used the most to the top because they have been deemed as having the most worth & credibility for that particular search. I would put the bible in this thought captured in image, but it is boringly predictable. So..
I probably have the most issue with worship.. Seriously, these black silouette hands raised is the predominate image for worship?.. really?..
Doctrine doesn’t get a good rap with the image folks. It also gets mixed up with politics and other cultural items.. Is that telling us something?
I’m glad to know that God is pretty much the same yesterday, today and forever. Except for that muscle character HE is some nice shining lights with a white beard.
I must say, I liked the motivation theology poster a whole lot. contemplated making that my laptop wallpaper. It is intriguing the images constructed to try to explain theology. Throwing out the 10 commandments makes for a limited theology in ways, might not be a bad thing though.
This one kinda freaked me out…
I like the safe pastor look better.. Except for maybe that guy in the top right.. Or the movie Troy, not a very good movie.
I suppose another arms up in the air type image is suitable. I did find that infant baptism rising to the top in so majority of images to be interesting. But maybe those are just baby dedications..
I suppose with two or three Sermon on the Mount images we can call this legit. At least there isn’t a benny hinn pic.
Boy am I glad my mommy taught me to fold my hands together and hid in dark lit rooms because apparently that is the way to go about praying to God.
The gothic nature of all these images has me shaking my head.. Maybe justice is just for goth people.
I like how there are no people in the churches. That’s nice.. Wait a second….
I could have chosen Eucharist, but those results were too catholic. Reminds me of the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. “You must choose wisely.” Looking at these, we seem to want to choose poorly.
Last but not least
I like my white soft skinned Jesus. Especially the contemplative sensitive type. But when I go out on Friday night I want Buddy Christ!
NOTE: If you are curious, I didn’t do any scrolling for these. This is the first set of results in each case.
So what does this tell you about your faith?
Began a Netflix account last month and have actually been a bit disappointed in the movie catalog (apparently what I want to watch hasn’t been in streaming demand of yet), but what has been great is some of documentaries/movies. Figured I’d share some of the things I’ve been watching.
I was an adolescent in the late 80’s to early 90’s. Which, was an interesting time of pop culture, hair metal, to grunge music, folding & rolling your jeans, and some really horrid other fashion experiences. One thing that was a constant for many years of my adolescent was ‘skating.’ In the skating world Christian Hosoi was huge and my group of guys were big fans. So it was a no brainer to check out a “Rising Son” a documentary on him. I know some of his story from the rise and fall of skating, but he wasn’t on my radar the last decade. I was interested in checking that out & had an expectation for what was going to be shared.
The documentary is a nostalgic walk for me seeing old footage and hearing names, interviews with guys that I cut out photos from magazines and posted on my wall and more. As the story goes.. Oh, heck, I’ll let you hear a bit from him (not actually part of the documentary though):
In Rising Son he speaks to how he got a hold of a bible and searched through the scriptures, found the book of Kings and that was his transformative moments. From there he became a believer and accepted Christ. He’s now a pastor as well as professional skater.
I wasn’t aware of his transformation story, so that caught me off guard but really excited about where he was in the world. Seems he’s found a place of peace and knowing of self which is celebratory.
If you can check out the film and don’t care for the 80’s and 90’s of skating then skip forward as his story profiled in the documentary is really remarkable (at least for me).
I threw out this news that Doritos/Pepsi did some crowdsourcing to get their slate of Super Bowl commercials coming up at the beginning of February. One of the Doritos commercials has the Catholic church upset because it uses the symbol of communion/eucharist with ‘the body’ represented as Doritos. Now, Catholics have their view that they really are partaking of Jesus’ body and blood when they take the bread & wine. So I get why they wouldn’t want to taste a Jesus that leaves a terrible after taste and gives you bad breath for the rest of the evening, not to mention leaves a residue on your finger tips.
But, if Jesus was a Dorito, what kind would he be? Someone seems to think Jesus would be Spicy Sweet Chili.. My only hope is that he doesn’t taste like Late Night All Nighter Cheeseburger, talk about a bad idea. I think we can all agree we don’t want Jesus to be this doritos flavor.
In more serious discussion, what are alternatives to ‘the body & blood’ that are acceptable? This was part of my discussion with Josh Hale, Katie Dawson, and others over twitter. It was a fun conversation, but had me thinking, this is one of our sacraments, we should know what is acceptable in use and what isn’t..
So I’ve begun a list: What are the acceptable forms of bread? and what are the acceptable forms of juice? and why
Accepted
Not Accepted (apparently, some of this list is on protest)
** – has to be served with milk
What are your Accepted & Not Accepted list? don’t forget the ‘why.’