Make Sure Your Hips Don't Lie
It is so easy to be critical. Critical of the news, peoples life decisions, advertisement, you name it. We can criticize anything.
One thing we all can relate to is our ability to criticize culture. The irony however, is we are the culture. No one has ever changed culture by criticizing it. Culture is changed by captivating its attention with something beautiful.
Remember last month when two well known 50 year old women performed during the halftime show of the most watched sporting event of the year? At least on my Facebook feed, Christians went bananas.
“I’m offended…”
“I’m appalled…”
“I’m disgusted…"
“I thought this was a family show…”
Those were the statements I saw from Christians describing the ‘dance off'. But my response would be, “What did you expect?” These women did what they have always done in their music videos and concerts. Jlow is famous…for her booty!! Shakira is famous…for her jiggly thing!! Criticizer - you knew this was coming, why are you offended that a non-believing organization would have this kind of entertainment? What’s worse is that you decided to use your social media platform to complain about it…
Think about it…
What kind of message does this send to the world? What kind of message does this send to the person who doesn’t believe what you believe when they read these posts online? I’m sure they want to be around you and come check out your church now, especially if they know how critical you are about the halftime show. I bet they can’t wait to hear your criticism of their weekend behavior!
You know what else is ironic about this topic?
If you’re a mother that was offended by this year’s halftime performance but wasn’t offended with Adam Levine last year - you have double standards.
If you’re a parent who doesn’t have parental controls over your kids internet access on their phones, they see way worse on Tik-Tok and Snapchat.
This is why people have a problem with our Christianity because our Christianity often doesn’t look like our Christ. Let’s stop being critical of our culture, rather let’s captivate them with the beauty, love, and acceptance of Jesus.