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Monday, April 21, 2008

"expelled"

so on saturday night i went with a group of people to the movie Expelled. It was a documentary on teachers and scientists who are getting blacklisted for teaching, or even mentioning Intelligent Design in any way.
i thought the movie was very informative and interesting...
but there was one comment that struck me. it actually didn't have a lot to do with schience at all.
one of the scientists who was very adament about not teaching intelligent design said that, "We (scientists) are not trying to ruin things like church for other people. Church is something a lot of people do on the weekends. its like a club people belong to. the idea of church and God make people feel good. we don't want to take that away from people. But false ideas like God and religeon have no place in science..."
How sad is that?
is that how we, as christians, are prortraying the church? as a "club to belong to" or an idea that makes us "feel good"?? is church really something we only do on the weekends?
hearing this scientist (along with many others that had the same veiw) talk about church really opened my eyes to all the effects our behavior has on the non-believing world around us.
it might be a different story if these scientists saw christians that showed love, that had lives saturated in Gods word, that lived and breathed Gods faithful instructions. maybe their veiws would be different if when they looked at the local church, they saw people who "bleed Bible" (thanks Pastor Will) :)

the documentary really made me question my realtionships...
does everyone i come in contact with know that i have a joy inside of me, do they know that i have felt the love of a savior? am i living a life that makes people look TO God or AWAY from God?

1 comments:

Golden Sundrop said...

i know exactly how you feel. i wonder the same question, and i just wish others could see what "church" and "religion" are really in my life and the life of my other friends. what a great conviction you have.