Cloned Christians

This photo is great, I laugh more each time I look at it (and for some reason it conjures up thoughts of my experiences teaching junior high Sunday School); and the post by the author of the Old Red Hat blog is right on. We are called to be different; not different as in wearing bath robes and the same alarmingly bright white sneakers, waiting for the mothership to pick us up, but different as in Christ-like. There are alot of guys out there today who criticize those in the Emergent crowd (myself included) for not remaining true to the Jesus of the Bible, but who at the sametime are all about creating "cool Jesus" in order to be relevenat and hip. I like what Matt Chandler says, "The gospel is always going to smell like death to someone, so don't worry about offending people and stay true to the gospel" (I paraphrased a little there). In other words, stay true to the gospel - don't make Jesus something that He didn't make himself out to be.

Here's the post from Old Red Hat:

One of the fun things people do with photography is what is called “clone” pictures.

There is a similar Christian connection to clone photography: The ever-present problem of Christians looking like, acting like, thinking like, and talking like the world.

It makes very creative photography. But spiritually it makes our Lord look bad.

1 Thessalonians 5:6

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HT: Old Red Hat