Get Over It Already

So, there's been a lot of controversy in the news for a couple of weeks about the Focus on the Family commercial featuring Tim Tebow that will air during the Super Bowl.  Here is an article about this from Baptist Press.

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=32136

There have been a number of people and organizations that have lined up to protest this ad and to demand that CBS not air it.  My response to these people:  get over it already!

In most cases, no one in our pluralistic, tolerant, post-modern culture even bats an eye about the ridiculous things we often see on TV these days.  There are too many worldly themes to count woven into our TV programs and commercials.  These themes openly support such things as gay relationships/marriage, infidelity in marriage, murder, sex, sexually transmitted disease, open & applauded disobedience of the law & parents, abusive relationships & language, and a very negative view of churches & religion in general.  Just to name a few things.

Now that someone wants to potentially stand up for something that a large number of Americans believe in (right to life), the wolves are coming out of the woods to complain and make ridiculous demands.  I realize this is a characteristic of the culture we live in.  But it's time for Christians to stand up for what is right.

I also recognize that this isn't very different from what I read in Acts 3-4.  Peter & John heal a lame man, by God's power, and then they get arrested.  They are arrested because everyone is seeing the obvious miracle that God has performed, and the name of Jesus Christ is being proclaimed.  The net of the story is that when the Sanhedrin realize they can't really do anything about this, they threaten Peter & John.  "So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus" (4:18).  I like how they respond:  "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.  For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard." (4:19-20).

I can't wait to see the ad on Sunday.  I'll be at church leading a Bible study, but I'll be sure we set the recorder before we leave.  My prayer is that it will be a testimony for Christ that impacts the lives of many Americans.  And I also pray that I can respond daily like Peter & John.

Pastor Randy