Brief response to today

I'd like to share my two cents about something. Lol, I like how I open with that, but this is my blog, I do what I want :P

There's a lot of uproar on GCF today of a "false preacher," and I'm sure I would agree with everyone if I were to have heard the man. However, I am saddened that our hearts get riled more clearly at an individual screaming out, then the injuries of people outside of Pittsburgh. A series of stabbings at a school. We get more riled up, more willing to speak, more willing to call out against an individual that has offended us, than the couple hundred souls that perished in the missing plane from Malaysia. The political upheaval in various countries, the starving people of the world, the suffering within our own city. But what moves us the most is an emotional charge against someone because we feel like as he yells, he brings down our religion. It gets personal, yet somehow the souls around us don't move us until that we have that spark from a man who speaks part but not all of the Gospel. In reality, much of the pop music we listen to and indulge in does the very same thing. Yet do we get all preachy about pop music? Not really... cause it's got that good beat you know?

Or the movies that defame God? Where people use His holy name in vain all the time? Of course not, those are cultural things right? And we enjoy the movie for it's aesthetic value as opposed to the undertones that lie in it.

The tragedies around the world are just a part of life, yet far removed from us right? Do we even get as indignant when we or our friends indulge in sin? I can't speak for you, but for myself... sometimes, but not always. It's that awkward line of do I get in his face or not. And yet the instance someone starts bad-mouthing Christianity, I can get all into it. Haha.

I find it weird, almost sad, that what moves us the most is the presence of a man speaking out wrongly about Jesus, when we live and breath in a world that does that ALL THE TIME. And more often than not we are completely okay with what we see.

But then again everyone has their own triggers that move them into action. And as long as action is taken, and as long as God gets the glory, does it really matter? I guess not.

Sigh humanity. So... inconsistent. I am so inconsistent. That makes me sad too. But what can you do when imperfect people follow a perfect God? Keep on plugging along.

Post to come about part 2. Too tired to write it out properly.