I recently watched the film "Stranger than Fiction" starring Will Ferell and a supporting cast of great actors. And I was struck by a portion of the film that really has something to say about culture and the church. Without giving too much away, Will's character is represented as having a GUI (Graphic User Interface), which the filmmakers show visually on the screen. This GUI is the way Will's character interacts with the word...it is the visual image OSX or Windows Vista for his life.
And it got me to thinking...we have spiritual GUI's. Not only do we have a set way of interpreting and interacting with our spiritual environments, but we then express and show these things in our own custom view to the world.
The thing is, the church does it too. It tries to interact with culture in a relevant way, and I think sometimes has sacrificed the delicate balance betwen style and substance. In the same way, we have to begin to look at ourselves to see whether our own GUI is working in a way that stays true to the message of Jesus. For example, bitterness about God or the church will morph the output of one's life to show the world a person who does not look like the Jesus we all say we know. If one is corrupt, the GUI will eventually be corrupted by that virus.
What's the GUI of your life look like?
I know I want mine to be like the One who came from the Father to the world - to change it, and to redeem it.
Cheers!
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hmmmmm
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