June 04, 2015
Exposure
The last few days I’ve had
email conversations with a public relations (PR) person for an organization. Twice
she patted me on the head, assured me all is well and sent me on my way with my
questions still unanswered. It’s curious to me that a PR person would engage in
a condescending attitude, particularly in this day of social media. However,
even we believers forget that our bad attitude and actions are not overlooked,
nor do they remain closeted away. “But everything exposed by the light becomes
visible, for it is light that makes everything visible.
This is why it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ
will shine on you” (Eph 5:13-14 NIV).
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Gail;
-----Maybe she didn’t hear enough coin clinking in her tin cup. Money always seems to effect the roots of relationships.
-----Next to money comes decorum. Looking and sounding like a target group will get you heard by that group. The trendiness of embracing LGBT is a great example of decorum’s power. We love our Leonardo Dicaprio’s and Brad Pitt’s. The general populace won’t deny what their favorite stars serve up in good humor while looking like they otherwise fit in. I remember when the rhetoric of entertainment was aimed at serving morality and ethics. That was a few years before the end of the Sixties. But decency portrayed as a desirable closed up shop as that decade closed out. Somewhere the PR types realized how powerful the entertainment world can be for reshaping norms if most of its decorum is kept inside the boundaries of general acceptance from where people will consider in small steps any suggestion their beloved pop-stars put forth with a smile.
-----They’ve moved boundaries so far since then that good is now bad and bad is good. Our little punk drug store robbers are now heroes, so go shoot some cops. That one rode in on the decorum of black skin. So also did politicians lying straight into your face about the very security of your country. Although having stated himself to have been raised and mentored by Marxists, no one dares call the President a communist at the threat of being labeled a racist. Now it is popular to treat eighteen trillion dollars of debt like trivia, else you’re a racist! And never ever make the connection between the President’s dual citizenship and what it is to be a natural born citizen, even if the President did campaign on being born in Kenya when running for the Senate, or you are a racist. That bit of decorum has brought tremendous change to who we are as a people.
-----Christians could stand some lessons in using decorum. I watch a little bit of our entertainment. But it is all hung up in a whitewashed, soapy faced, overly scrubbed, unrealistic social atmosphere of “Oh! Golly gee!” goody-two-shoed Mr. and Mrs. Sundayschool types who just don’t quite relate to anyone having real problems while filled with real guilt. And more feckless than that is the minuscule no-names who are their actors picked off the jet-sets of overgrown mega-churches. Before actors and actresses become so widely popular that the mere mention of their names alters norms, they have to have exhibited “sameness” with the unwashed masses, something Mr. And Mrs. Sundayschool can not achieve.
-----So Christians are left with the “money” option to effect their “PR“. But rather than using money as PR‘s currency, we’ve been using two-thirds of our God-given currency to effect social change, gentleness and kindness. Had we been faithful to the other third as well, the third which makes the whole into love, we would have been more effective in maintaining our once better norms. For without truth even kindness and gentleness will mislead. And whatever misleads is not of love, but of hatred. (Oops. Not a decorous word.)
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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