I’m not exactly sure what I think of this. What are your thoughts?
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We Are The Church?
Posted: 16th April 2011 by Uncle Luther in HumorTags: 'we are the church', 'we are the world', church, odd, parody, weird
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Hmmm. Not sure what I think of this video… http://is.gd/dCuPhZ
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I think it’s a bit cheesy. I’m not sure what point they were trying to make, though — that Christians should support their local church with their tithes (even though tithing is obsolete and tied to the Law), or are they making light of the idea that the practice makes God happy?
So yeah. Colour me a little confused.
Yeah, I was a little confused, too. I can’t wrap my mind around what exactly the point was. I mean, other than that they want money. It seems like an example of creativity getting a tad out of hand.
It reminds me of that George Carlin sketch on religion, the part where he goes on about how it always seems like God doesn’t have enough money. Heh.
I know CCC and their arts team rather well – they definitely play up the “cheese factor.” But “creativity getting a tad out of hand”? Huh. Our creativity is from God and part of His character. I wonder if spots on the long neck of a giraffe would be considered “too much creativity”? Or if making the duck-billed platypus egg-laying AND a mammal would be “creativity getting a tad out of hand”?
Knowing CCC as I do, I know that this was a relevant part of the series they were working on, even if they recycled it form 2002. If you knew how they spent their money (planting churches, supporting church-starts all over the world), maybe it wouldn’t seem so “out of place.”
Just a thought….
I’m not sure if linking God’s creation of the giraffe and the duck-billed platypus to this is relevant. Clearly, the giraffe and the platypus are original works.
I have to wonder whenever I see videos like this that play up the “cheese factor” how it comes across to visitors to a church or to non-Christians.