So right now, millions of Evangelicals are sitting down to a delicious meal of Chic-fil-a all in support of the owner's stance on the definition of marriage. This is something I think we need to really see for what it is so I'm going to simply call a spade a spade.
Millions upon millions of Evangelical Christians are, at this very eating their support of THE Christian fast food resturant. Simply because the owner openly announed his stance on gay marriage.
Am I the only one that sees how rediculous this is? Like we as the Church have to have our own thing in the culture that we can claim as "ours". We have Tebow, "our" NFL player. We have Lin "our" NBA from-out-of-nowhere star. We have our own fastfood joint, our own coffee shops, our own tv and radio stations; all because they agree with some of the same stuff we do. I could probably make an absolute fortune selling cola that tastes terrible but has John 7:37-38 on the label.
At the same time, those millions of people are also closing down their Amazon accounts and vowing to never order from the site again because Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos gave a substantial sum of money to a Washington state gay marriage law. Can I add here that Microsoft, Starbucks, and Nike all did the same thing? Are we now going to stop going to Starbucks?
My point is this, why, as Christians do we feel as if we have to have "our sub culture" and then everyone elses. Like if Tebow tears his ACL today and never plays another down, was that Satan thwarting evangelism in the NFL? Most people would be completely devestated.
Having our own subculture is about as detrimental to the Gospel as anything else. For us to say that we will eat Chic-fil-a or stop eating Oreos segregates us from the culture. It casues this wedge of seperation to form between us and the lost person-yes I know I'm throwing just homosexuality out. I'll get right back to that in one second.
Most of the people gorging themselves on a chicken sandwhich today probably think they're being good Christians, as if God is pleased that we're eating at His favorite resturant.
Jesus never said, "If you love me you'll eat at Chic-fil-a" and John never wrote, "They went out from us because they bought things at Amazon." We're are treating these things like they're absolute Scriptural. And when those who aren't believers see this they aren't thinking, "Man they're brave." or "How great is this Jesus that they worship."
What is God more pleased with: A sandwhich in the tummy or the Gospel being proclaimed to those who need it? You see there lies the problem with us all-myself included- is that we want to believe that supporting those in our Christian subculture pleases God. That God smiles on us and pours out blessings of Chic-fil-a sauce for us to enjoy. But sadly, we've focused more on where we will or will not spen our money than on Christ and His Kingdom this week. How ironic! In an effort to support a man who has Christian values we've made an idol out of his company.
And many of you all dismiss this idea and say, "But we're standing up for the sanctity of marriage. Cathy is profamily and promarriage." Fair enough. But to be pro something you must be anti something else. I'm not saying all Christians want to beat up homosexuals, I just think we've elevated it far and above every other sin.
There is no difference between the homosexual and the 17 year old Galilean with porn on his laptop. There is no difference than a homosexual and the girl who seeks her identity in a boyfriend. Yet no businesses are coming out in support or against these things. Why is that? Was Cathy really trying to speak his mind or could this be publicity?
But the more passionate we are the less we're reaching out to evagelise the homosexuals. We would rather argue all the way from the pulpit to the voting booth than spend thirty minutes eating Oreos with an athiest and her girlfriend.
What if, and follow closely here, we made our businesses and then sold to atheists at a lower price than normal. What if we followed fair business practices and treated the homosexual like they were valuable to our society and without the target on their backs. I'm not saying we don't call sin sin.
I'm just saying that our Christian subculture is killing our chances to evangelize and it's time which we care about more. The lost or the sandwhich.
SDG
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