Blind Spots

I would just like to say that I love watching trendy hipsters. I love everything about them. I gotta glean fashionable ideas somewhere, and weather its a do or a don't i'm learning I gotta love them.

That being said, I went to the hipster mega church explosion that is the Well last night. I had to work Sunday and just wanted to be fed somewhere. I normally don't like going there but last night was an exception. I've gone in the past to see what the big deal is about the new building, and the Pastor acts like a comedian and packs his sermons full of jokes about television that I don't understand, and unlike my own pastor his sermons have nothing to do with the greek translations or what was happening in Ephesus, and you can get the point. It's just a candid over coffee talk about God, which when told in relation to Jersey shore I just don't understand.

Last night was different though, last night a few main points just simply melted my face off.

The concept was simple, bad people corrupt good moral. His delivery was simple, don't hang out with knuckle heads, i.e. bad people.

That's it, that's what I learned. I sat there taking notes in my journal about how foolish I've been in many choices of my life, feeling really discouraged about the knuckleheads I've given so much value to. I felt like the absolute worst Christian in the world and I kept asking myself, who are you fooling, you're such a joke.

Thankfully I heard him through my writing, his next few lines were so, "You want to know if you're okay?"
Yes. Please, I'm freaking out.
"You'll know if you're okay when you're taking notes and realizing you're problems, and then turning to your friends and asking them if they see this problem in you, and whether they do or don't, asking them to pray for you."

He went on to talk about remembering 'old school theology' and responding to God appropriately, and living appropriately. He defined old school theology not as 'a John Piper idea but a Moses idea'. John Piper is an author who writes great pieces on God, and someone who I am currently reading and using to feel okay about my life choices. The fact that I should be looking to the original piece of literature, the Bible, to form my theology is an issue that I didn't' expect to be addressed that night.

After the sermon I promptly called my friends, who said they weren't busy and were looking for something to do because the cafe they were at closes soon. Upon my arrival they told me how they kept talking about what they would do at 8 because thats when the cafe closed and when I arrived, thankfully they were wrong in the cafes closing hour and we were able to sit and talk with each other and I could receive prayer for things that I've come to realize I have issues with.

I confessed to them my feelings toward the hipster mega church as well, and my good friend Carrie pointed out that the sermon wasn't there to condemn me as it was to point out my blind spots. That sometimes you can't see right away where issues of sin are sneaking in, and you need someone to come and show you them, no matter how simple the idea may be, no matter how basic the delivery or the lack of fancy greek definitions. Everyone has blind spots, and thankfully there are people who know exactly how to address them and get our attention at seeing them, no matter their delivery of the gospel.