Christian Pop Culture

I have a love/hate relationship with a lot of Christian pop culture.
I love it cos as a youth pastor there are all these Christian bands out there that I can use in studies, powerpoints etc
I love it cos I can take youth to the Parachute Music festival and know they will have a good time in a safeish environment.
I love seeing youth wearing tops that say that they are not ashamed of the gospel
I love the fact that there is a safety in it all.
I hate it cos - cos some of the material is simply so corny it's embrassing.
I hate is cos it's so inclusive - it places Christians in a different world from their friends at school, I hate it cos it lacks creativity - surely if God is the creative source of eveything, then we as Christians should be doing better than bad rip offs of what we see the "world" doing.
I hate it cos I believe it increases the "sacred"and "secular" divide that is not altogether useful. Things are viewed as Christian and therefore good, or secular and therefore evil. Can't God move in both worlds?? In fact maybe the secular/sacred is a real need for "and" instead of an "or" situation. Our Christianity should be reflected in both.

Maybe one of the biggest challenges now that the Church has this monster called "Christian Pop Culture"is how do we live in the world and not be of it as Christians? Maybe we're gone to far the other way, we live too much in our own world now? Maybe Christian pop culture is a huge fast anyway aren't most the Christian record labels just branches of "secular" ones, and under the same ownership? Maybe if we had the eyes to see we would God as active in the what we call "secular" as He is in what we call "sacred"? Maybe I need to read more about Jesus, didn't He get into trouble cos of who He hug with? Or maybe God's big plan for evangelism of the western world involves a "Christian Pop Culture" take over?
Maybe?

Til next time
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