Knowing that God has called you to be an underdog is a release to everything except your imagination.
Our new task is to imagine a Jesus way of life, true to who he is, yet meaningful in our context. We now ask ourselves, what about our culture’s way of life is valuable, godly and should be affirmed? What must be abandoned altogether?
The modern mindset would have us do this by breaking the world into categories. It asks questions like “What is Christian music/family values/politics/personal finances/sexuality/entertainment?” These are good questions which we may address later.
This categorization divorces relevant issues from the way in which we encounter them in life. No one says “from 8am-2pm on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday I will listen to the radio.” Instead, they listen to the radio as a part of their rhythm of life. They listen in the car, or while they cook and clean. The tactic has been to tell people to listen to the Christian radio station. Rather than imagining what Jesus would do with a TV or computer, we put porn filters on our computers and try to find family friendly movies.
What if we asked questions like: “Why do I like porn so much?” or “Why do I turn the TV on the second I get home?” We need to move from avoiding behaviors to addressing the way of life we have bought into: our daily, weekly and yearly rhythms, and the nature of our relationships. Which we’ll dive into soon.
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