Church Voices

Here’s the video I’m using to kick off a new sermon series. Sorry for the poor video quality, the real thing looks better than that.

I’ll give you the reasons, but you have to go here and read the explanation.

1. They start with a bad translation.
2. They are lazy.
3. They are tone deaf.
4. They treat it like a dead frog.
5. They believe in magic.
6. They can only see trees.
7. They think they are Simon Cowell.

I was reading the Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis, and I noticed something about the friends the demon Screwtape is happy the patient has made. These are friends that can be used to send the patient on a path to damnation rather than salvation. The continuing theme the demon hits on that makes these friends so excellently reliable for the cause of Hell is that they have lost the wonder of the gifts God has given to us. He uses words like “scoffers” to describe them, but what it comes down to is that these people look at the world, and the goodness in it and see nothing but the ordinary.

Lets not forget that part of being a follower of Christ is to see wonder in the world around. To understand that every breath, and minute is quite literally a gift from God.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
James 1:17

If we allow ourselves to become world weary, to the point where we can’t see all the good things in the world that have come down from the Father of the heavenly lights we spit in the face of God. We become ungrateful, and sour towards what God intended for our good. Its no different than if our children open up a Christmas present from us, look at it and say “is that all?” without much more than a glance.

Lets not forget that God is a God of new beginnings, we are new creatures in Him, and so are others, but, also, lets not get so caught up in the falleness of the world that we forget that good and perfect gifts are rained down on us by our Father.