Do you, you know, like, mean what you say?

After the centerless and circling rhetoric highlighted in my last blog post, I found this video to be almost uncannily ironic. I have heard it said that of all the classes of society, it is the artist who most accurately observes and identifies the condition of society. This is often true because those with an artistic bent are often on the fringes of that society and the closest to a third party observer. Naturally such an advantage is dramatically inferior to the revealed truth of God's word which perfectly describes the condition of man and the world in which he lives.

It is tragic that in a world in which the church is become increasingly apathetic towards the value of Scripture, and the world is becoming increasingly disenchanted with its own postmodernism, there are times when spokesmen from the world sound a rousing call that should awaken the sleeping saint and motivate him to action.

In typical fashion, the church is following along behind the philosophical trends of this world, a few years behind the times, to be sure, but making steady progress. It is popular among certain church movements, the Emergent Church in particular, to eschew propositional truth, doctrinal certitudes, biblical mandates, and a firm conviction on anything other than the conviction that one cannot have a conviction. I suggest that the following video clip might be played in some churches today - as an interesting "cultural artifact" to provoke a "helpful dialog" and encourage the "community of faith" in its corporate "God experience."



Like the fool in Shakespeare, the comedian in this clip has wrapped a jab in a jest. Hopefully that spoon full of sugar will help our culture, and our churches, collectively get its medicine down.

In a generation starting to tire of endless feelings, personal truth quests, and thoughtless tolerance, the church is entering a period of great opportunity for the proclamation of the authoritative and certain gospel of Jesus Christ. In an ocean of indecision, windswept by the gusts of a fickle culture, let those who have a sure salvation point to the erect tower of truth upon which we stand and to which we call the world to come for refuge - for His glory.