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Beyond a T-Shirt

By Ryan, October 6, 2005

You may recall my last post dealt with wearing a t-shirt for Jesus. Last night, though, it was “Backwards Night” at church, so I went above and beyond in my dress. Actually, it was my mom’s dress. That’s right, I wore my mother’s Sunday dress to the youth group last night. It’s pink with flowers, which I’ve been speaking out against since who-knows-when. But, even though I got a “Will Rock For Jesus” CD, a Barlow Girl DVD, and four free games of bowling at Strikz out of it, I’m not about to wear that to school for any reason in the world. You see, at church, people were expecting something wild for “Backwards Night.” You could almost say that at church it was cool. But at school?

Is this starting to remind you of anything?

Like, for example... God* not being cool in school?

I saw a skit at the “Saw You At the Pole” rally at the mall, and I think it will illustrate this idea perfectly. In the skit, a guy playing as Jesus goes to school with a guy who just got saved. He wants to meet all his friends, but is turned down and told to stay in a room the whole time. Even though the main idea of the skit was that we should be able to introduce Jesus to our friends without shame, it is also a good way of showing that we often times act like He just isn’t ‘cool enough.’ But really... how do you get any cooler than Jesus?
You know what’s sad? There are actually people who’ll try to answer that. But, God still wants us to reach out to them, and that’s our job.

I urge you to think on that.

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