oh. there was a profound point here behind the cool stuff.
yes, for some people it is all about that :( I remember hearing a preacher once rant briefly about people coming to church with a "what am I going to get out of this service" kind of attitude, and challenging us to think more in terms of "what is God going to get out of it"...
The idea is similar to the ghetto's that Jews used to sequester themselves into during the Middle Ages. When Christians hide behind their castle walls lobbing rocks over the sides at the "bad guys" out there, and feeling like no matter what they do, as long as it's inside the walls it's "good" that's a Christian ghetto. So folks in the Christian ghetto would be the ones wearing WWJD bracelets, wearing Xian t-shirts (they'd faint that I just X'd Jesus's name out in that word, not realizing that X is an abbreviation, not a crossing out), they like to legislate their own morals so that others need to follow them as well (ruling the rest of the world from within their own castle), they assume that when people tell them they don't want to hear the Bible that they just don't know what they're saying and keep reading it to them, etc.
I suspect you've known a few people like this, eh D?
A few, yeah. :) Thought Christene knows more than myself people like that from when she as in school.
I just thought it an odd mix to tag the video with "ghetto" when, to me, the word brings up images of poverty, depression and disenfranchisement, while the video had people playing music on expensive electronic devices.
Thinking about it, I wonder if it's not more of "Xtian absenteeism" than a ghetto, in that it feels like an attempt to live such a life at arm's length (at best) from those around them.
are those ipads?
ReplyDeleteyes. and i thought i saw an iphone in there, too.
ReplyDeletecan you use an ipad as an instrument then?
ReplyDeleteif you have the right app.
ReplyDeletedid you notice that in order to "play" the tambourine, you have to shake the ipad?
oh wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this was awesome!!!
ReplyDeleteamazing! took forever to download on my poor old pc, but thanks so much for sharing it.. such fun!
ReplyDelete... just came back to watch this, and while it is cool, i thought i'd explain my title briefly.
ReplyDeletefor some people, attending a church service on a sunday morning is all about being entertained.
... there you have it.
oh. there was a profound point here behind the cool stuff.
ReplyDeleteyes, for some people it is all about that :( I remember hearing a preacher once rant briefly about people coming to church with a "what am I going to get out of this service" kind of attitude, and challenging us to think more in terms of "what is God going to get out of it"...
What is a "christian ghetto"?
ReplyDeleteThe idea is similar to the ghetto's that Jews used to sequester themselves into during the Middle Ages. When Christians hide behind their castle walls lobbing rocks over the sides at the "bad guys" out there, and feeling like no matter what they do, as long as it's inside the walls it's "good" that's a Christian ghetto. So folks in the Christian ghetto would be the ones wearing WWJD bracelets, wearing Xian t-shirts (they'd faint that I just X'd Jesus's name out in that word, not realizing that X is an abbreviation, not a crossing out), they like to legislate their own morals so that others need to follow them as well (ruling the rest of the world from within their own castle), they assume that when people tell them they don't want to hear the Bible that they just don't know what they're saying and keep reading it to them, etc.
ReplyDeleteI suspect you've known a few people like this, eh D?
A few, yeah. :) Thought Christene knows more than myself people like that from when she as in school.
ReplyDeleteI just thought it an odd mix to tag the video with "ghetto" when, to me, the word brings up images of poverty, depression and disenfranchisement, while the video had people playing music on expensive electronic devices.
Thinking about it, I wonder if it's not more of "Xtian absenteeism" than a ghetto, in that it feels like an attempt to live such a life at arm's length (at best) from those around them.
the word ghetto is being used in the historic sense rather than with the present day connotation.
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