Heartbroken

I just watched last night's episode of Glee online.  How heartbreaking.  If you didn't see the episode, it was all about spirituality, God and whether or not He exists.  I cried through most of it because I know people who believe the way Kurt and Sue believe: that there is no God and people who believe there is are crazy.  

One of the great things about our country is that we are free to express our beliefs, regardless of what they might be.  However, as Christians, we are often looked down upon for what we believe.  The episode starts out with Finn making a grilled cheese sandwich that he thinks looks like Jesus.  He calls it "grilled cheesus" and starts praying to it.  If that's not making fun of Christians for what we believe, I don't know what is.  The whole show wasn't like that - Mercedes invited Kurt to go to church with her and encouraged him that he has to believe in something sacred because this life is too hard on our own.  And Sue's sister asked if she could pray for her.  Sue said "that would be nice."  Even people who don't believe in God want prayer.

We need to be aware of what people outside our little Christians circles believe.  Thoughts and feelings like this are real and it should absolutely break our hearts.  If it doesn't, we should be examining our own hearts very closely.  When we hear people talk about God the way Kurt did, it should drive us to our knees in prayer for these people.  Then we have to get up from our knees and do something about it.  We have the Truth and we have to share it.  The group Go Fish has a great line in their song "Gotta Move" that says, "The Gospel is the Gospel, you don't have to sell it.  It can change the hardest hearts, you just have to tell it."  Jesus has already done the work for us, we just have to tell it.