Tue 20 Mar 2007
Someone had to go and do it.
Someone had to steal the creativity of YouTube and baptize it in the waters of contemporary Christianity. Instead of the 'Broadcast Yourself' tagline of YouTube.com, GodTube encourages you to 'Broadcast Him'. Don't misunderstand me, I'm all for a place that supports a community of homemade Christian videos (however lame they may be), but once again, we've produced yet another less-than-stellar approach of the Christian Community copying something from someone else and hoping to make a splash. My question is this: Why didn't we come up with this first? Why do we as Christians (and as The Church) have to play second string when it comes to much of anything creative or artistic. Why settle for being the 'alternative'? Shouldn't we have the character and integrity to produce quality art and creative communication…even to the point that multi-million dollar companies look to us and want to reproduce what we've done…not the other way around?
Alas, maybe I'm cynical.
Just watch this video and see if you don't agree.
(Of course, this one of the youth camp slingshot is hilarious! Maybe we can pull that off at Camp 7.8 this year….)
*EDIT: OK….I'll probably regret this later, but if you're STILL not convicnced…check out the new ShoutLife.com, the Christian alternative to MySpace….[sigh]….But don't worry, I don't expect it to be around for long.
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March 20th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
TC,
The church used to own inventions and intellegence and technology. We are now so cheap with our money that we cannot afford to be at the forefront of technology because we are so in debt that we cannot or will not give money to the church.
It is a pretty sad state of affairs when we are relegated to second class status because we have not realized that when you put your money where your mouth is you are able to be first in many things.
Maybe if Christians would get their sad, fat, broke butts out of debt then they could actually give money and the church could again be out front in areas of technology, inventions and intellectual property.
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:39 am
so…how do we change that?
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Teach the entire word of God when it comes to how His children are to deal with money.
It would also help if churches were not so self important to think that they need to build lavish multi-million dollar legacies to pride. I thought pride comes before a fall. hummmmm.