Mr. Seyler's Journal pg.3 |
February 20, 2003"Michael Jackson is a freak" Recently
I sat down and watched the interview with the so-called "King of
Pop." I initially found myself shocked, disturbed, sickened, saddened,
and confused. Thoughts began
racing through my mind. These
thoughts were echoed by my students in class the next day when I asked, "What
did you think of the Michael Jackson interview?"
Some of the replies are listed below:
Later
that evening I repented. Isn’t
it interesting that we never thought, "Jesus loves Michael
Jackson!?" We are so good at dissecting sinners, aren’t we? We live in our hallowed halls, Christian cars, and Bible-believing
buildings "I’m afraid we are of
the world but not in it As small children we scream with veins popping from our necks" "Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world" red
and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight! But
something happens as we "mature" (or we think it’s maturity). Jesus’
love, which we say we know so much about, somehow evolves into a cynical,
external, performance-based, polished code of rules where we categorize
spirituality, trample on each other, and exterminate the lost.
What’s the deal? If Jesus entered our culture today I fear many of us would mentally challenge his activities "what is He doing in there?" "That person he’s talking with is a homosexual!" "He’s eating boji fries with a sexual fornicator!" "Doesn’t he know how that looks?" "How come he didn’t come to our Christian Tea Party?" "Why
is he spending the afternoon at Neverland Ranch with that freak?" WHAT
HAVE WE BECOME? "Everything
they do is for men to see… They
love the places of honor at banquets… Woe
to you…you hypocrites! …you
give a tenth… but
you have neglected the more important matters of the law. You are like white-washed tombs!
You
shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces!”
Matt. xxiii IT IS NOT THE HEALTHY WHO NEED A DOCTOR BUT THE SICK |
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