We Focus on Odd Things

We sure focus on some odd things. For example, the whole Miley Cyrus ordeal: She was the target of self-righteous Christian bloggers for weeks. I still see the random Tweets about her. Because of her television performance, many of us were introduced to the term twerking. Was all that hoopla necessary?

Here is why I ask this: We spend time judging Miley and her family while we ignore real world crises. While that was going on, Syria was still conducting its civil war, killing and displacing hundreds of thousands of people leaving them destitute. Egypt still is not stable. In Afghanistan, there is a budding Christian church experiencing increasing persecution. There are homeless and starving in America.

We, as The Church, must learn to pass up on these easy targets of judgment. We tend to focus on these because it is easy to deal with. We can provide a simple word or two on how to “fix” the problem. Whereas these larger issues are tough because there is no simple answer – there is no simple “fix.” The Church must learn to pass up on these sideshow issues and focus on the real issues surrounding the welfare of the world. Let’s stop heaping burning coals on the heads of the suffering and get real – let’s deal with the tough issues together.