Every part of me cringes at this

For anyone who's known me for a while you know that I have a huge desire to live a life that allows for my faith to be relevant within real culture. Because of that any time I see the Christian community copying something that the regular world does just to make it "ours" I cringe. Tonight I finally took it upon myself to go and check out GodTube which pretty much is just like it looks. It's a blatent copy of YouTube. Sure there is probably some good stuff on that site. Probably all Christians should check out the new Superchik video (just kidding) Here's a better idea though how about working to get the same content onto the site that millions of people check out each day.

Creating something aimed at providing a "Safe Place" for Christians is about as useful as all of the fake name brand copy t-shirts that some Christians make which try to get their message into culture by just copying something the culture did right.

Please just work on redeeming culture and not creating one of our own. We've been doing that for a while and sadly its not working.

This shirt makes me sick to my stomach. Not because of the message but because of the lame way some Christians try to copy culture to be relevant. Stop copying culture. Get in it and meet some people and just love them. This shirt will probably not save anyone.

Comments

[Tammie]

AMEN! I heard a speaker once bring up this subject. He pointed out that we are creations of the Ultimate Creator we should be far more creative than we are.

[Don]

What's hilarious is that, at first glance, since the picture was so large, I thought you were going to sing the praises of GodTube... and I thought "That's not the Lars I know"

then I read on, and thought "THAT'S the Lars I know!"

Great post, particularly "Please just work on redeeming culture and not creating one of our own. We've been doing that for a while and sadly its not working."
- I think they were called cathedrals, now we use names like "worship centers"...

[Phil cunningham]

My favorite Christian pop culture shirt is God's Gym where Jesus is on the cross, but it is being broken apart on his back as He is so cut and strong, or a bread crumb and fish is good too.

Thanks for posting bro, I am glad I am not alone.