Comments on: Flickering Pixels – Group Blogging Project – Chapter 16

By: Susan_Stewart

Susan_Stewart — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:23:31 +0000

Hold on a minute. I didn't sign up for this. Being God's message wasn't part of the deal. I became a Christian for peace, love, joy, happiness. God wrote the Bible to deliver His message.

Isn't this the way so many of us cruise through our lives as Christians? We don't think about God's message as anything other than the preacher's Sunday sermon. If we're not called to preach, we don't have to worry about the message. God has given someone else that gift to spoon-feed us.

Like being a parent, this is an overwhelming responsibility. At the same time, it is an enormous privilege. Few, including me, are brave enough to teach others that part of our religion.

I think also that Justin hit on an important distinction that is seldom made — we are not the messengers, we are the message.

By: Mikes

Mikes — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:44:42 +0000

Amen Amen Amen SO SO SO Right! Can you hear me screaming? We are the message! That hit me! That's so true. What is this flickering pixels thing? Let me go ahead and check this out and see if I can contribute as well I have written something on this (a short post/devotional) from my humble blog. you may check it if you have time: http://your-dailyword.blogspot.com/2009/07/put-on...

By: @phillipgibb

@phillipgibb — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:02:00 +0000

quite a paradox, just like Dry Ice?

By: Justin Wise

Justin Wise — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:17:44 +0000

For realz. Mind-bending stuff is in God's pocket lint. I think he's waiting to tell us some amazing things.

By: Justin Wise

Justin Wise — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:16:35 +0000

I think you could make a case for both. Hipps (via McLuhan) argues that they are one in the same.

By: @phillipgibb

@phillipgibb — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:13:58 +0000

Heavy.
That is quite an "Oh yeah, now I get it" kind of chapter (and post). Jesus became the message, He did not just say what we must do but also showed; showed us to the point where we did not have to go past because He did for us.
How we live our lives, how we shine our light; in Church and out of Church – is showing to the world that message. For Jesus is in us, the Word is in us.
And so cool to be involved in Technology, "you think that man came up with zeros and ones? and that that they can be used to show a digital movie so close to reality that it's insane"
What does our technology say to us about God? I think that it shouts out that God is Infinite.

By: dewde

dewde — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:09:47 +0000

Are we the message or are we the medium?

Still confused.

peace|dewde

By: Josh Wagner

Josh Wagner — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:08:26 +0000

I think this chapter brought everything about this book into focus for me. I still don't know if I agree that the medium is the message, at least by my own definition. But I cannot deny that we are the message of Christ. It makes total sense. Good post.