While reading a friend's blog he mentioned the theology of "Jesus is my girlfriend". A rather interesting and provocative idea. The bottom line is that we more and more are treating Jesus more as our girlfriend or boyfriend (especially in our worship songs) than we treat him as the second person of the trinity, Lord of all creation, the one who is returning to rule over the cosmos. Such a tilt in our theology inevitably impacts our actions. Certainly one treats and pays attention to his girlfriend quite differently than he treats and pays attention to the one who as Paul writes in Colossians, 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by 6 him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. Jesus as my girlfriend or the Jesus of Colossians? For a bit more thinking on this, especially as it relates to music check out Jesus is my Girlfriend.
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I think this thought process is very sad, but true for many people. The "fear" of the Lord seems to have been forgotten. The more we fall into the mindset that Christ is a person that we court, the further we fall away from the truth...That Jesus Christ is our Lord and that all authority is his, and soon we will all have to stand before him.
We are dirty and rotten sinners who need a savior to come and rescue us from death. Our lives were never manageable without him. We don't need a girlfriend to make us happy or look better, we need a father to reconcile us back. Besides, who wants a Jesus, other than the one from Colossians, I sure don't.
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