Flabby Indifference

I just got back from the movie Wall-E with my kids. I loved it! It's about American consumerism that devours the planet and the soul of man. I highly recommend it for adults.

One of the many things that they nailed was in their portrayal of the Fat American. Due to their inactivity, the humans in the movie had basically become fat and inert. And as with most fat people, their features had been overwhelmed by their fat, so that they all took on a similar look. It's a common look among overweight people: the loss of their distinctive features.

What a perfect parable of the WACC - the White American Christian Church. Our laziness and consumer mentality has caused us to lose our distinctive features. The fat in our churches has overwhelmed us and we all look the same. This goes against the wonderful diversity that Jesus molded the church out of. Our unity in Christ should consist of beautiful and remarkable differences. Hands. Feet. Eyes. Ears. All different, all distinct, all one.

Don't be afraid to be who God created you to be. Don't force yourself, others, and your church into the flabby indifference that permeates today's churches. Dare to be distinct, to be radical, to live out the Sermon on the Mount. Let His Spirit grab you and mold you, not the church.

Man, I wish I could start all over. There are so many ways I would do it differently.

Oh, wait - I can! That's one of the greatest gifts of God: The Divine Mulligan. So what if you knocked the first drive into the woods, tee it up again and let it rip! Jesus is all about do-overs and restarts. Pare off the fat and be who He created you to be.