Comments on: I don’t understand http://www.valeriehess.com/generalnews/i-dont-understand Author, Speaker and Musician Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Roger LeBlanc http://www.valeriehess.com/generalnews/i-dont-understand/comment-page-1#comment-316 Roger LeBlanc Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:12:02 +0000 http://www.valeriehess.com/generalnews/i-dont-understand#comment-316 Greetings Valerie! I look forward to reading more. Greetings Valerie!

I look forward to reading more.

]]> By: Lacy Finn Borgo http://www.valeriehess.com/generalnews/i-dont-understand/comment-page-1#comment-315 Lacy Finn Borgo Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:29:59 +0000 http://www.valeriehess.com/generalnews/i-dont-understand#comment-315 Although many potential causes come to mind. My own internal meter of cause points to pop culture and consumerism. In short I think it’s about butts in the seats, and mass marketing. Just take a walk through your local Christian book store. I do, quiet often as a matter of fact. But just like shopping in the grocery store, the good for you items seem to be on the peripheral, and the processed, marketed, bad for you junk is in the middle. I found more statues of angels made in China than I found good foundational teaching about the Christian way or the history of the Church. I found a small shelf for “Classic Chrisitan” literature; CS Lewis was the only author there. However if I wanted to buy Sarah Palin’s new book, she had a full display. I was in a Christian book store in Texas that had a warning label, saying that the content of some particular books were questionable. These are books that have profoundly changed my life. However I didn’t see a warning label on say the jewelry box with a baby Jesus on it saying, this will not change your life in anyway, in fact it was made by slave labor in India. Instead to find this connecting with our history, I’ve had to order books on line and am a permanent customer for Netflix that offers old documentaries from PBS. I have called a friend who is a Vicar at a local church many times; I have wandered into the Catholic Church and ask questions no one ever asks with profound apologies for my ignorance. I have been a Christ follower for the better part of 25 years, and yet only in the past eight years have I sought to know the history of the body I belong to. It’s like not knowing myself. In my most opinionated opinion, we, the body of Christ, have bought into the way of the world, complete with its quest for more, and it’s lure of distraction. And for that Lord Jesus, please forgive me, and help me. Although many potential causes come to mind. My own internal meter of cause points to pop culture and consumerism. In short I think it’s about butts in the seats, and mass marketing. Just take a walk through your local Christian book store. I do, quiet often as a matter of fact. But just like shopping in the grocery store, the good for you items seem to be on the peripheral, and the processed, marketed, bad for you junk is in the middle. I found more statues of angels made in China than I found good foundational teaching about the Christian way or the history of the Church. I found a small shelf for “Classic Chrisitan” literature; CS Lewis was the only author there. However if I wanted to buy Sarah Palin’s new book, she had a full display. I was in a Christian book store in Texas that had a warning label, saying that the content of some particular books were questionable. These are books that have profoundly changed my life. However I didn’t see a warning label on say the jewelry box with a baby Jesus on it saying, this will not change your life in anyway, in fact it was made by slave labor in India.
Instead to find this connecting with our history, I’ve had to order books on line and am a permanent customer for Netflix that offers old documentaries from PBS. I have called a friend who is a Vicar at a local church many times; I have wandered into the Catholic Church and ask questions no one ever asks with profound apologies for my ignorance. I have been a Christ follower for the better part of 25 years, and yet only in the past eight years have I sought to know the history of the body I belong to. It’s like not knowing myself.
In my most opinionated opinion, we, the body of Christ, have bought into the way of the world, complete with its quest for more, and it’s lure of distraction. And for that Lord Jesus, please forgive me, and help me.

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