Las Vegas

I was watching the show Las Vegas on television the other night and part of the show was about a contest that the casino was having where the contestants had to keep one of their hands on the vehicle the longest in order to win the truck.  One of the contestants on the show was a religious woman who called in her church choir to the event, and in this particular scene it shows the woman and the choir singing songs to God.  I’m not saying that singing songs to God in public is wrong.  But I do believe that there is a time and a place for that.  This woman in this show ended up causing a huge scene and eventually ended up taking her hand off the truck because “the Spirit” got on her.   

This show sort of gives me an idea as to what our culture sees Christians as.  I believe that the Christian faith has become a joke to society.  I just don’t get it.  Being Christ-like does not mean that you have to scream and yell “repent” to everyone you see.  Most people probably wouldn’t know what that means anyway.

I’ve notice while reading the gospels (Mathew, Mark, Luke and John) that Jesus was always trying to build a relationship with the “sinners” and Jesus always seemed to get in an argument with all the church leaders.  It seems like now, from what I’ve seen, that the church has turned what Jesus taught us around and now its shunning the ones who needs a helping hand and receiving the church’s hypocrisy.