Last week at the Opera House ‘Jerry Springer the Opera’ played. There has been an interesting discussion involving Michael Jensen (a Moore College faculty member), the Sydney morning herald, and even the gay press website.
The show sounds terrible in many ways – mainly the way it portrays Jesus. The producer Andrew Spence said "So what if we have a black Jesus who's a little bit gay. At the end of the day, it's all about love … “
But as Christians – what do we do with that? In the UK, there were great protests about the show. But Michael Jensen disagrees with this approach. He says
“I think it actually damages the cause of the gospel when we pose as just another protest group in society that is making noise for its own space. If we are not convincing in showing that what we are arguing for is not the good of our own sector of the community but the good of the community as a whole, then our gospel becomes just more white noise.”
I like that. I don't want the gospel to be just white noise. But I wonder – what does that mean we should be doing to stand out in our culture as different?
For the full article and interesting comments, go to this link
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