by A#minor » August 7th, 2008, 3:25 am
Are there people who actually think Christianity is about how many TVs or cellphones you have? This is ridiculous!
It's about a relationship with God first of all. Talking to Him, and trying to know Him better. Then it's your priorities and your relationships and how you treat people, how you react to life, the decisions that you make, that shows that there's been a change in your thinking. That your inward self is beginning to reflect God's thinking, and God's desires are becoming your own.
For instance, a good parent might want their child to watch less TV. A worthy thought. But a Christian parent wants the child to watch less TV so that their perspectives are based on God's rules, not on the world's flimsy boundaries.
There's an entirely different motive, and that could apply to lots of different situations like in that article. (One would hope,) Christians are seeking for purity in God's eyes, and not for the world's approval.
The bottom line is... that lady didn't really want to seek God. She wanted an interesting TV show that would be controversial, and at the end she could say she tried it and didn't find God and didn't think Christianity is modern. She won't find what she isn't looking for. Sad, really, how people deceive themselves.
"My brain and this world don't fit each other, and there's an end of it!" - G.K. Chesterton