arrggh!

just some thoughts. apologies for harsh words used.

a phenomenon had arisen, commercialized christianity in their various forms: books written by a pastor's wife who looked like she had to much make up on all the time, seminars where preachers preach about how to be successful in God (yes the so called prosperity gospel which i found ridiculous), church musicians who rocketed into fame once they produced platinum albums and so many more things that make it appears like we're trying to SELL our belief, instead of making people understand and accept the TRUTH.

i guess we thought if we don't do that we would be overlooked by this world and they won't even listen to the words we say, although the Words can bring them eternal life. we thought we are the uninteresting bunch if we keep sticking to the 2000-year-old Gospel, the freaks on the exile table in high school.

i have been indifferent all this while. i put on the "i don't care" attitude. let those people do what they do, i know my place. yet, i can't stand being quiet anymore, seeing how the Truth has been further and further deviated and twisted and misinterpreted to conform to the world merely for the sake of their acceptance. the Good News has been so deviously modified only to fulfil marketing rules.

on the other hand, some of the message of commercial christianity might be as true as the Bible itself, however the way it's being spread pisses me off especially when it makes people start to worship the pastor, the writer, the church, the band, the music et cetera. blimey! they're just roadsigns that is pointing us to eternal life, to God Almighty! i think it's a rather dumb thing to do, if not insane, idolizing roadsigns.

to me, it's like christianity is turning into some new form of entertainment business. very saddening and sickening.
Salvation is NOT FOR SALE, you get it FOR FREE.

it's not like i don't sing to christian music, read christian books and listen to our beloved pastor's sermon every sunday (and even tuesdays and some odd saturdays), i do! i'm not being sceptical with all the materials out there some of which were written by truly anointed people.

but when it comes to knowing God, isn't it better to know JC via the direct access, through daily walk with Him. if we can know Him in person, why bother with the third party? He came down to restore that direct connection from earth to heaven, and that grace definitely must not be wasted! we shouldn't so easily swallow what is preached by man, even the most famous names, without checking it with God first. it's all about Him anyways.

why can't we just go back to the heart of worship, where everything is all about JC?